Richard Meili

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Richard Meili

Richard Meili (born February 28, 1900 in Schaffhausen ; † July 5, 1991 in Gümligen ) was a Swiss psychologist in the fields of personality psychology , psychodiagnostics and developmental psychology .

biography

Meili first studied in Jena and Bern, most recently in Berlin with Wolfgang Köhler and Kurt Lewin ( Gestalt psychology ) and Hans Rupp ( industrial psychology ). Meili has always combined academic and practical work: Even during his studies, he worked in a home for young people with psychopathic disorders. In 1925 he received his doctorate on the subject of "Investigations into the organization of objects".

From 1926 to 1941 he was assistant, Chef de Travaux and most recently a lecturer in succession to Jean Piaget at the JJ Rousseau Institute and the University of Geneva. There he completed his habilitation on the subject of “Recherches sur les formes de l'intelligence” ( Investigations into forms of intelligence ) with Édouard Claparède .

1942–1948 his academic career paused, and he worked as the head of career counseling in Winterthur . These experiences particularly influenced his later psychodiagnostic research.

In 1949 Richard Meili was appointed professor at the University of Bern , initially as an associate professor , and from 1954 as a full professor to the newly created chair for psychology and its applications at the University of Bern. His focus there included psychological diagnostics , thinking psychology , developmental psychology and character development, reintegration of the disabled, the structure of intelligence and longitudinal studies of personality. In 1953 he also founded the Institute for Psychology at the University of Bern and worked there until his retirement in 1970.

Six years after the institute was founded, he established a vocational training program for educational advisors in Switzerland and created a course that could be completed with a diploma.

In 1937 his main work appeared for the first time, which later became a standard work for a long time and was translated into many languages: the "Introduction to Psychological Diagnostics". He also founded and chaired the first test commission in Switzerland that dealt with the quality of psychodiagnostic procedures.

In 1943 Meili was co-founder and later for many years President of the Swiss Society for Psychology and its Applications and for many years editor of the Swiss Journal of Psychology. The Swiss and the German Society for Psychology named Richard Meili an honorary member . The University of Salzburg awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1980 .

Works

  • Introduction to psychological diagnostics. since 1937 in several editions
  • Beginnings of character development. 1957
  • Analytical intelligence test. AIT, 1966
  • Basics of individual personality differences. 1972
  • The structure of intelligence. 1981

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ For his developmental research see: Anna Arfelli Galli : The developmental research of Richard Meili and his colleagues. In: A. Arfelli Galli: Gestalt psychology and child research. Krammer: Vienna 2013, pp. 69–87.
personal data
SURNAME Meili, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Schaffhausen
DATE OF DEATH 5th July 1991
Place of death Gümligen