Sylvia Bayr-Klimpfinger

Sylvia Bayr-Klimpfinger (born August 1, 1907 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; † July 25, 1980 there ) was an Austrian psychologist and professor of psychology at the University of Vienna .

Life

Sylvia Klimpfinger was born the daughter of a railway official. After attending elementary and community school, she went to the teacher training institute run by the sisters of the poor child in Döbling . In 1926 she passed the school leaving examination for elementary schools, after which she attended the four-semester university teacher training course at the Pedagogical Institute of the City of Vienna from 1927 to 1929 . In June 1928 she passed the supplementary examination for secondary schools, with which she was entitled to study at the university. From the winter semester of 1928/29 she attended courses in the subjects of psychology, philosophy, pedagogy, physics and mathematics at the University of Vienna . She received her doctorate in 1932 with a thesis on the subject of constancy of shape in its development and influence through practice and attitude towards Dr. phil .; The supervisor was Egon Brunswik , at that time assistant to Karl Bühler .

She began her career on December 1, 1933 as an assistant teacher for the municipality of Vienna. From 1936/37 she was a provisional teacher at a secondary school for girls. In March 1940 she was given leave of absence from this position and released to represent an assistant position at the University of Vienna. 1943 habilitation them at Arnold Gehlen with Scripture The test method as part of the personality assessment , a thesis on psychological studies of ethnic German resettlers, d. H. on research in connection with the National Socialist occupation policy in Eastern Europe. Your test lecture was based on a critique of humanities psychology. In March 1944 she got a regular assistant position at the Institute for Psychology and left school. She held courses on experimental psychology, peer review internships and a lecture on the psychology of children and adolescents.

Klimpfinger had been a member of the NSDAP since January 1, 1941 and belonged to the National Socialist People's Welfare and the NS teachers' association. Klimpfinger carried out psychological assessments of so-called “difficult parenting counseling cases” on behalf of the NSV on the premises of the institute; she was involved in the training of NSV kindergarten teachers, NSV youth leaders and NSV carers. At the Vienna Institute for Psychology, she is working on adapting the infant development tests by Charlotte Bühler and Hildegard Hetzer for the purposes of NSV. The test materials were produced at the institute and lists of the available stocks were sent to interested parties. The main buyers were the educational counseling centers of the NSV that had been set up across the Reich.

After the Second World War, Klimpfinger was taken on as a “non-permanent university assistant” at the Pedagogical Institute headed by Richard Meister , while she also became the head of the Institute for Life Economics. As a former National Socialist party member, she was subjected to a denazification process, in which she was temporarily deprived of the powers acquired during the Nazi era. It was not until July 1948 that she was granted the qualification to teach psychology again.

In 1950 she was appointed associate professor. During this time he married the writer Rudolf Bayr . In 1955 she was appointed permanent university assistant, in 1956 she was appointed to a newly established professorial office for developmental psychology and educational psychology and in 1967 to a newly created professorial office for educational psychology. The department for child psychology, which had previously been placed in the educational seminar, thus came to the Institute for Psychology. An essential pillar of the research and teaching represented by Bayr-Klimpfinger consisted in the supervision and management of a research kindergarten, which enabled direct practical training in developmental diagnostics and educational psychology of the preschool age. Bayr-Klimpfinger retired at the end of the 1976/77 academic year, but held the chair until 1979; Brigitte Rollett was appointed her successor by the University of Bochum in 1979 .

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Bayr-Klimpfinger continued the tradition of the Vienna School of Child and Adolescent Psychology founded by Charlotte Bühler. She added a test for the age of 7 to the series of development tests. She also pursued family-sociological issues. Later work related to the development of child-friendly toys, to the problem of age-appropriate books and to the developmental psychological effects of the then new medium of television. Under the heading of living space design, she also dealt with the adequate spatial design of kindergartens ( spatial division method , i.e. division of the group room into different play areas, room parts and boundaries).

selected Writings

• Sylvia Klimpfinger: About the influence of intentional attitude and exercise on constancy of form. In: Archives for the whole of psychology. Volume 88, 1933, pp. 551-598.
• Sylvia Klimpfinger: The development of gestalt constancy from child to adult. In: Archives for the whole of psychology. Volume 88, 1933, pp. 599-628 (dissertation).
• Sylvia Klimpfinger: The test method in personality assessment. Possibilities and limits. Rohrer, Vienna 1944 (meeting reports of the Academy of Sciences in Vienna, Phil.-hist. Class, volume 223; habilitation thesis).
• Sylvia Klimpfinger: The possibilities of a humanities psychology and the question of the unity of psychology. In: Archives for the whole of psychology. Volume 112, 1944, pp. 249-287.
• Sylvia Klimpfinger: A series of development tests for the 7th year of life. In: Journal of Psychology and Education. Volume 2, 1949, pp. 49-67.
• Sylvia Bayr-Klimpfinger: The changes in the family and their effects on upbringing. In: Vienna Journal for Practical Psychology. Vol. 2, 1950, pp. 2-11.
• Sylvia Bayr-Klimpfinger: Why children can't play properly. Verlag für Jugend und Volk, Vienna 1956.
• Sylvia Bayr-Klimpfinger and Agnes Niegl : Tell me something! (designed in so-called Latin script), STORIES FOR SMALL CHILDREN selected, edited and commented on by Sylvia Bayr-Klimpfinger and Agnes Niegl , Austrian Federal Publishing House for Education, Science and Art Vienna and Munich, cover and illustrations by Emanuela Delignon, Vienna 1966, robust beige Binding with dark brown writing, foreword by the editors from 1965, note: With a decree of the Federal Ministry for Education of May 26, 1966, number 38981 _ V / 1/66, as a teaching aid for teaching at educational institutions for kindergarten teachers, higher educational institutions for economic Women’s professions and admitted to technical schools for economic women’s professions as well as due to the provisional curriculum for middle schools for the discontinued classes of women’s high schools, private collection Austrian Museum of Advertising, Vienna
• Sylvia Bayr-Klimpfinger and Agnes Niegl: Tell us something! Stories for toddlers. Verlag für Jugend und Volk, Vienna 1983.
• Sylvia Bayr-Klimpfinger, Richard Bamberger and Anna H. Brantner: Our beautiful city. Youth Book Club, 1968.
• Hildegard Hazmuka and Sylvia Bayr-Klimpfinger. Foundation of mathematical and logical thinking.

literature

• Manfred Berger : Sylvia Bayr-Klimpfinger. A portrait, in: Our Children 2003, p. 165
• Gerhard Benetka: Bayr-Klimpfinger, Sylvia. In: Brigitta Keintzel, Ilse Korotin (ed.): Scientists in and from Austria. Life - work - work. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2002, ISBN 3-205-99467-1 , pp. 50–52.

Web links

• Literature by and about Sylvia Bayr-Klimpfinger in the catalog of the German National Library
• https://www.nifbe.de/fachbeitraege/autorinnen-der-fachbeitraege?view=item&id=765:sylvia-bayr-klimpfinger-1907-1980&catid=37

Individual evidence

1. ^ Klaus Taschwer : stronghold of anti-Semitism. The decline of the University of Vienna in the 20th century . Czernin, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-7076-0533-4 , p. 255.
2. ^ Gerhard Benetka: Sylvia Bayr-Klimpfinger. In: Brigitta Keintzel, Ilse Korotin (ed.): Scientists in and from Austria. Life - work - work. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2002, ISBN 3-205-99467-1 .
3. ^ Gerhard Benetka: History of the Faculty of Psychology. ( Memento of the original from February 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 115 kB) 
4. ^ Gerhard H. Fischer : Half a century history of the institute for psychology. ( Memento of the original from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 141 kB)