Max powder

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Max Pulver (born December 6, 1889 in Bern , † June 13, 1952 in Zurich ) was a Swiss psychologist , graphologist , poet , playwright and storyteller . He became known as a graphologist with his fundamental works Intelligence in written expression and symbolism in handwriting . After early literary success, powder largely gave up his poetic activity in the 1930s in favor of graphology .

Life

Max Pulver was born as the son of the pharmacist Albrecht Friederich Pulver (1853-1896) and Fanny Martha Pulver, nee. Leuenberger (1859–1924), born in Bern as the youngest of four children. After attending the humanistic grammar school, he studied history , psychology and philosophy in Strasbourg , Leipzig and Freiburg im Breisgau . Pulver received his doctorate in 1911 with the work Romantic Ironie and Romantic Comedy in Freiburg im Breisgau.

Pulver lived in Munich from 1914 to 1924 . There he made the acquaintance of Rainer Maria Rilke , who promoted him. Another acquaintance in Munich connected him with Walter Benjamin , who was interested in his work on Romanticism , in graphology and in the work of Franz von Baader , who had published the powder. Pulver enjoyed success as a poet and playwright . First graphological activities followed, including a. as a court graphologist.

In 1924, Pulver returned to Switzerland and lived in Zurich. There he worked as a lecturer in graphology and human studies at the psychological seminar of the Institute for Applied Psychology. Pulver was around Carl Gustav Jung .

Pulver died on June 13, 1952. Posthumously, in 1953, his work, Recollections of a European Time .

Act

In 1950, Pulver founded the Swiss Graphological Society (SGG) or Société Suisse de Graphologie (SSG), which is particularly dedicated to the scientific foundation and professional recognition of graphology . Pulver pioneered modern graphology. So he developed the spatial symbolism and the writing zone theory.

Pulver takes up the philosophy of Ludwig Klages in his work and develops from it his own characterology, which he places at the side of his graphological work. His psychological-graphological writings are shaped by the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl .

Recently, powder was also seen in the cinema . In Richard Dindo's film Who Was Kafka? (2005) Pulver, portrayed by Peter Kaghanovitch , appeared as Kafka's contemporary witness .

Works

As a writer

  • Self-encounter (poems), K. Wolff, Leipzig 1916
  • Alexander the Great (drama), K. Wolff, Leipzig 1917
  • Robert the Devil (drama), K. Wolff, Leipzig 1917
  • Odil ( short stories), Huber, Frauenfeld 1917
  • Merlin (poetry), Insel-Verlag, Leipzig 1918
  • Christ in Olympus (drama), Hans Sachs-Verlag, Munich 1918
  • Igernes Schuld (drama), Insel-Verlag, Leipzig 1918
  • Ascent (poems), Insel-Verlag, Leipzig 1919
  • Interludes , Rascher, Zurich 1919
  • The big wheel (comedy), Drei Masken Verlag, Munich 1921 (first performance in the Zürcher Schauspielhaus , 1926)
  • The white voice (poems), Rhein-Verlag, Basel 1924
  • Small gallery (prose mood pictures), Grethlein & Co. Verlag Seldwyla, Zurich 1925
  • Arabic reading pieces (prose mood pictures), Grethlein & Co. Verlag Seldwyla, Zurich 1925
  • Himmelpfortgasse (novel), Kurt Wolff, Munich 1927
  • Handwriting symbolism , Orell Füssli, Zurich 1931
  • Drive and crime in handwriting , Orell Füssli, Zurich 1934
  • New poems , Orell Füssli, Zurich 1939
  • Know people and understand people , Orell Füssli, Zurich 1940
  • Self-reflection , Orell Füssli, Zurich 1940
  • Self-experience , Orell Füssli, Zurich 1941
  • In human footsteps , Orell Füssli, Zurich 1942
  • Jesus' round dance and crucifixion according to the Johannes files , Rhein Verlag Zurich 1943 (special print from Eranos yearbook 1942)
  • Person, character, fate , Orell Füssli, Zurich 1944
  • Transition (poems), Orell Füssli, Zurich 1946
  • Intelligence in written expression , Orell Füssli, Zurich 1949
  • Memories of a European time. Encounters with Rilke , Kafka , Klee , Meyrink and others , Orell Füssli, Zurich 1953

As editor

  • Writings of Franz von Baader . Selected and edited by Max Pulver. Insel, Leipzig 1921

As translator

  • Théophile Gautier : Fortunio (French original: Fortunio ), Drei Masken Verlag, Munich 1922
  • Pierre Dumarchey : The rider Elsa (French original: La cavalière Elsa ), O. C. Recht, Munich 1923
  • Émile Zola : The beast in humans , (French original: La bête humaine ), K. Wolff, Munich 1927

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Angelika Kirchrath, Andreas Mattle; Werner Weber (ed.): Helvetic profiles. Artemis Verlag, Zurich and Munich 1981, p. 181
  2. ↑ Why I live in Zurich. In: Zürcher Illustrierte. 1933, Retrieved October 29, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Powder, max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss psychologist, graphologist and author
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern
DATE OF DEATH June 13, 1952
Place of death Zurich