Théodule Ribot
Théodule Armand Ribot (also Théodule A. Ribot) (born December 18, 1839 in Guingamp , Côtes-d'Armor , † December 9, 1916 in Paris ) was a French psychologist and philosopher .
Life
Ribot studied at the École normal supérieure in Paris and worked since 1865 as a professor of philosophy at various colleges. From 1872 he devoted himself in Paris to biological and physiological-psychological studies and founded the Revue philosophique in 1876 and the Society for Physiological Psychology in 1884.
In 1885 he was appointed associate professor of psychology at the Sorbonne and in 1888 full professor of comparative and experimental psychology at the Collège de France . From the end of 1906 he was a member of the academy.
Ribot has also made an outstanding contribution to the international networking of psychology - he hosted the first international congress for psychology in 1889 and again the fourth congress in 1900. From these congresses the International Union of Psychological Science emerged, which is now the largest and most decisive umbrella organization for psychology Associations is.
Works
- La psychologie anglaise contemporaine (1870, 3rd ed. 1895)
- L'hérédité. Étude psychologique (1873, German based on the revised 5th edition by Kurella, Leipzig 1895, Library for Social Science 1)
- La philosophie de Schopenhauer (1874; 9th edition 1903)
- La psychologie allemande contemporaine (1879; 5th edition 1900; German, Braunschweig 1881)
- Les maladies de la mémoire (1881); 16th edition 1904; German, The memory and its disorders . Voss, Hamburg 1882 ( digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf )
- Les maladies de la volonté (1882, 9 editions; German by Pabst, Berlin 1893)
- Les maladies de la personnalité (1885; 19th edition 1904; German, based on the fourth edition by Pope, Berlin 1894)
- La psychologie de l'attention (1888; 5th ed. 1902)
- La psychologie des sentiments (1896; 9th ed. 1903; German von Ufer, Altenb. 1903)
- L'évolution des idées générales (1897; 2nd edition 1903)
- Essai sur l'imagination créatrice (1900; 2nd edition 1905; German, Bonn 1902)
- La logique des sentiments (1905)
- Essai sur les passions (1906)
Ribot also translated together with Espinas Herbert Spencer's Principles of Psychology into French (2 vols., 1874–1875).
literature
- Jean-Louis Vieillard-Baron: RIBOT, Théodule. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 8, Bautz, Herzberg 1994, ISBN 3-88309-053-0 , Sp. 177-178.
Web links
- Literature by and about Théodule Ribot in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ribot, Théodule |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ribot, Théodule Amand (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French psychologist and philosopher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 18, 1839 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Guingamp |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 9, 1916 |
| Place of death | Paris |