Paul Mentz (psychologist)

Paul Ernst Mentz (born March 28, 1869 in Marienwerder , West Prussia , † after 1920) was a German psychologist and philosopher .

Career

Mentz attended the municipal grammar school in Danzig from 1877 and from 1886, since his father had been transferred to Erfurt as chief post office accountant , the royal grammar school there , where he graduated from high school in 1888.

In the following five and a half years he studied philosophy and experimental psychology in Berlin, Munich and Leipzig. In 1895 he received his doctorate under Wilhelm Wundt in Leipzig. In 1897/98 his habilitation took place. From the summer semester of 1897 to the summer semester of 1911 he taught, with interruptions, at the University of Leipzig.

The Romanian philosopher Constantin Rădulescu-Motru later described how he got to know Nietzsche's work through Paul Mentz , and described his fellow students as follows:

“During his psychology studies at the University of Leipzig with Professor Wilhelm Wundt in the years 1891-1893, the Romanian student first heard (1893) about Nietzsche from his fellow student Paul Mentz, 'one of the most silent colleagues, but a pure representative of the Germanic type who later, in his short life, only made it to a private lecturer at the University of Leipzig. When he spoke of Nietzsche, it seemed as if he wanted to initiate me into a secret of his soul '. "

Works

The effect of acoustic sensory stimuli on pulse and respiration. An experimental psychological investigation. Leipzig: Engelmann 1895. (Leipzig, Univ., Diss., 1895)
Investigations on the psychophysics of color sensations on the spectrum. Leipzig: Engelmann 1898. (Leipzig, Univ., Habil.-Schr., 1897)

Web links

Overview of the courses given by Paul Mentz (psychologist) at Leipzig University (summer semester 1897 to summer semester 1911)
Paul Mentz at the Kalliope network (own letters and mentions in letters from others)

Individual evidence

↑ This emerges from the Kalliope manuscript database, in which a letter of condolence from Mentz on the death of his doctoral supervisor Wilhelm Wundt is listed (sent from Frankenheim (Rhön) on September 7, 1920), see web links.
↑ The biographical information comes from the postscript to his dissertation, dated March 2, 1895.
↑ See the overview “All doctoral theses at Wundt, in chronological order” .
^ Simion Dănilă: Friedrich Nietzsche's Reception in Romania. A retrospective from the end of the 19th century until today. In: Nietzsche Studies. International yearbook for Nietzsche research. Volume 34 (2005). Pp. 217–245, here p. 219 .

personal data
SURNAME	Mentz, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Mentz, Paul Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German psychology and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH	March 28, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH	Marienwerder , West Prussia
DATE OF DEATH	20th century

[1] This emerges from the Kalliope manuscript database, in which a letter of condolence from Mentz on the death of his doctoral supervisor Wilhelm Wundt is listed (sent from Frankenheim (Rhön) on September 7, 1920), see web links.

[2] The biographical information comes from the postscript to his dissertation, dated March 2, 1895.

[3] See the overview “All doctoral theses at Wundt, in chronological order” .

[4] Simion Dănilă: Friedrich Nietzsche's Reception in Romania. A retrospective from the end of the 19th century until today. In: Nietzsche Studies. International yearbook for Nietzsche research. Volume 34 (2005). Pp. 217–245, here p. 219 .