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Lothar Sprung (2004)

Lothar Sprung (born September 26, 1934 in Berlin ; † January 18, 2017 there ) was a German psychologist who worked in the fields of experimental psychology, methodology, diagnostics and the history of psychology.

Life

Towards the end of the Second World War , Lothar Sprung actively experienced the horror of war as a ten-year-old "war participant" in the street fighting in Prague , although he was lucky and remained unharmed. However, this experience made him a pacifist .

He first learned the carpentry trade, and from 1950 to 1957 he worked as a cabinet maker and cabinet maker, at the same time he obtained his university entrance qualification ( Abitur ) from 1953 to 1957 at the evening school . From 1957 to 1962 he studied biology , chemistry and psychology at the Humboldt University of Berlin (HUB) and at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena . He earned his diploma in psychology in 1962 with a work on memory psychology .

Lothar Sprung began his scientific work at the HUB as a research assistant in general psychology with investigations into concept formation. Here he was shaped by the exact way of thinking of the natural sciences. After receiving his doctorate in 1970 (experimental work in the field of thought psychology) , he completed his habilitation in 1980 with a thesis on methodology and methodology, both at the Humboldt University under Friedhart Klix . He also counted Kurt Gottschaldt among his academic teachers , who headed the Psychological Institute of the HUB from 1946 to 1961 and followed a call to the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen in early 1962 .

After that he moved research other's methodology . Together with his wife Helga, whom he had met while studying at the HUB, he published a first specialist book in 1984, “Basics of the Methodology and Methodology of Psychology”. In this work they had developed a “General Methodology and Methodology of the Human Sciences”. This methodology and methodology are characterized by their extraordinary systematics and an accuracy that is unparalleled in the empirical sciences.

He was also interested in diagnostics , and together with Jürgen Guthke and HR Böttcher, he published two volumes of books on diagnostics in 1990/1991.

Finally, he dealt with the third research area, the history of psychology . He has published numerous individual works on this. The culmination of his life's work was the book together with his wife Helga "A Brief History of Psychology and Its Methods", published in 2010.

He performed his most important scientific achievements at the Institute for Psychology and at the Psychology Section of the HUB as a leading psychology methodologist in the GDR. In 1970 he was appointed as a university lecturer , at the same time he became Deputy Section Director of the Psychology Section at Humboldt University and held this position until 1973. In 1990 he was appointed professor for methodology and methodology in the human sciences at the HUB's interdisciplinary institute for the philosophy of science and human ontogenetics.

Sprung had retired in 1993, but continued to work primarily on projects relating to the history of psychology, such as B. the publication of a volume History of Psychology within an eight-volume History of Science by the Instituto della Enciclopedia Italiana. In 2006 his wife Helga Sprung published the biography of Carl Stumpf , on which Lothar Sprung had worked.

From 1993 he was a lecturer in the history of psychology at the Free University of Berlin .

In 2000 he was elected a member of the Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin .

In the funeral speech for Helga Sprung , which was given by Annette Erb as Lothar Sprung's last doctoral candidate, it says: “Helga and Lothar Sprung dedicated themselves body and soul to psychology. They lived science as a life plan. There was no separation between work and leisure. The unrestrained joy of scientific discovery and tireless diligence, as well as the productive climate of this two-way relationship, resulted in a rich scientific harvest and international fame. "

Most important works

Lothar Sprung has written more than 150 publications in total. Helga Sprung , his wife, is the co-author of many of his works.

  • with Helga Sprung: Basics of the methodology and methodology of psychology. Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1984, 2nd edition 1987, ISBN 978-3-326-00255-2 .
  • with J. Guthke and HR Böttcher (eds.): Psychodiagnostik. A textbook and workbook for psychologists and empirically working social scientists. Volume 1 and 2. Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1990/91.
  • with Wolfgang Schönpflug (ed.): On the history of psychology in Berlin. Lang Wissenschaftsverlag, Frankfurt am Main; Berlin; Bern; Bruxelles; New York; Oxford; Vienna 1992, 2nd edition 2003, ISBN 978-3-631-50463-5 .
  • with Helga Sprung: A short history of psychology and its methods. Profil-Verlag, Munich; Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-89019-649-7 .

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner Krause: Nekrolog on our member Prof. Dr. Lothar jump. Retrieved March 12, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Annette Erb: funeral speech for Helga Sprung. Berlin, February 21, 2019, unpublished manuscript.
personal data
SURNAME Jump, Lothar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 18th January 2017
Place of death Berlin