Oscar Adolph Oeser

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Oscar Adolph Oeser (born February 21, 1904 in Pretoria , South Africa ; died February 22, 1983 in Melbourne ) was an Australian psychologist.

Life

Oscar Adolph Oeser was the oldest of three children of the goldsmith Alfred Edward Oeser, who emigrated from Germany to South Africa, and Caroline Louisa Henning. Oeser studied physics and mathematics at the University of Pretoria (B.Sc., 1923) and at Rhodes University , Grahamstown (M.Sc., 1925). It was in 1929 at the University of Marburg doctorate with a psychological work and in 1931 in Experimental Psychology at Trinity College of the University of Cambridge . He was a teacher at Dartington Hall in Devon. He was briefly married to Ingeborg Emmie Dicke and married in 1934 in London the Australian psychologist Mary Drury Smith, née Clarke (-1976).

Oeser was hired in 1933 as a lecturer and head of the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. There he conducted a sociological study of unemployed youth in Dundee . When the Second World War broke out, he was drafted into the Royal Air Force in September 1940 and was promoted to acting wing commander in 1943 . Oeser was seconded to Bletchley Park , where the messages from the Germans were intercepted, decoded and analyzed. After the end of the war, Oeser was transferred to Germany, where he checked German personnel for their political usability for the Allied Control Council .

In 1946 Oeser moved to Australia with his wife and two children, where he set up a chair in psychology at the University of Melbourne . In addition to teaching, he raised funds for research teams until 1970 that worked on field studies on issues relating to industrial sociology, agricultural sociology and school psychology. Using mathematical tools, Oeser developed a model for a structural role theory, which he presented in Volume 4 of the Handbook of Social Psychology.

Oeser received several fellowships and traveled to the USA and Europe. He was a member of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and a founding member of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies (1964) and the Australian Institute for Urban Studies (1967).

Oeser was a fellow of the British Psychological Society and the Australian Psychological Society . He advised the Western Mining Corporation (1970–1973) on spatial planning for new mining sites in the outback and advised the Cairnmillar Institute (1974–1976) in Melbourne on organizational development issues . The psychologist Ronald Conway was a student.

Fonts (selection)

  • Tachistoscopic reading attempts as a contribution to structural psychological type theory . Leipzig: Barth 1929, pp. 139–177. Separate reprint from: Zeitschrift für Psychologie, Volume 112. Dissertation, University of Marburg 1928
  • Erich Rudolf Jaensch : Eidetic imagery and typological methods of investigation. Their importance for the psychology of childhood, the theory of education, general psychology, and the psycho-physiology of human personality . Translation of Oscar Oeser. London: Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1930
  • Karl Bühler : The mental development of the child. A summary of modern psychological theory . Translation of Oscar Oeser. London: Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1930
  • Karl Vossler : The spirit of language in civilization . Translation of Oscar Oeser. London: Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1932
  • Viktor Lowenfeld : The nature of creative activity. Experimental and comparative studies of visual and non-visual sources of drawing, painting, and sculpture by means of the artistic products of weak sighted and blind subjects and of the art of different epochs and culture . Translation of OA Oeser. London: Paul 1939
  • What use can industry make of psychology . Melbourne: The Institute of Industrial Management 1947
  • UNESCO tension project. Report from Australia . Sydney: Commonwealth Office of Education, 1948
  • with Samuel Battle Hammond (Ed.): Social structure and personality in a city . London: Routledge & Paul 1954
  • with Frederick Edmund Emery (Ed.): Social structure and personality in a rural community . London: Routledge & Paul 1954
  • (Ed.): Teacher, pupil, and task. Elements of social psychology applied to education. A practical manual for teachers . London: Tavistock Publications, 1955
  • with Frederick Edmund Emery (Ed.): Information, decision and action. A study of the psychological determinants of changes in farming techniques . With the assistance of Joan Tully. Melbourne – Carlton: Melbourne University Press 1958

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SURNAME Oeser, Oscar Adolph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oeser, Oscar Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Pretoria
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 1983
Place of death Melbourne