Sergei Leonidowitsch Rubinstein
Sergei Leonidowitsch Rubinstein ( Russian Сергей Леонидович Рубинштейн ; born June 18, 1889 in Odessa , † January 11, 1960 in Moscow ) was a Soviet psychologist .
Life
Sergei Leonidowitsch Rubinstein, son of a lawyer, studied philosophy in Germany from 1909 to 1913 at the universities of Freiburg , Berlin and Marburg . In 1913 he defended his dissertation A Study on the Problem of Method . From 1919 he was a lecturer in the Department of Philosophy and Psychology at the University of Odessa for two years . From 1922 to 1930 he headed the Odessa Scientific Library. He then taught psychology at the Leningrad Pedagogical Institute until 1942 .
Rubinstein became one of the most important Soviet psychologists and tried to develop a theory of psychology based on dialectical and historical materialism . In his work Basics of General Psychology (1940; German 1958) he critically examined what is known as bourgeois psychology. Here he presented the principle of the dialectical unity of consciousness and activity. For this writing he was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1942 .
Rubinstein held the chair of psychology at the Moscow State University from 1942 to 1950. From 1942 to 1945 he headed the Institute of Psychology at the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of the Soviet Union. Then from 1945 to 1949 and from 1956 until his death in 1960 he headed the Psychology Section at the Institute for Philosophy of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. In the work Being and Consciousness (1957; German 1961) he analyzed the relationship of the psychic to the material, in the work Thinking and the ways of his research (1958) thinking and problem-solving processes. He also wrote principles and ways of psychology (1959; German 1963).
literature
- Rubinschtein, Sergei Leonodowitsch , in: Meyers Enzyklopädisches Lexikon , 9th edition, 1971–79, vol. 20, p. 413.
Web links
- Literature by and about Sergei Leonidowitsch Rubinstein in the catalog of the German National Library
- Rubinstein, Sergej Leonidowitsch , in: Lexicon of Psychology , Spektrum.de
- The Scientific school of SL Rubinstein , on www.ipras.ru
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rubinstein, Sergei Leonidowitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Рубинштейн, Сергей Леонидович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Soviet psychologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 18, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Odessa |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 11, 1960 |
| Place of death | Moscow |