Tony Buzan

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Tony Buzan (2007)

Anthony Peter "Tony" Buzan ([ ˈbuːzən ], born June 2, 1942 in London - † April 13, 2019 ) was a British author, speaker and trainer on the subjects of education , learning and creativity . He became particularly well known for the coining of the term mind map and the spread of this method.

Life

Buzan's brother is political scientist Barry Buzan , who is four years his junior . After completing his school career in Kent and Vancouver ( British Columbia , Canada) Tony Buzan studied psychology , English , mathematics and general science at the University of British Columbia . From 1964 to 1966 he was a lecturer in psychology, English and creativity at Simon Fraser University . After returning to England, he was a teacher from 1966 to 1970, specializing in the Inner London Department of Education . From 1969 to 1971 he was editor of the journal Mensa International of the highly gifted Mensa Association . There he was a member himself. 1970 to 1974 he worked as a journalist for the journalists' union National Union of Journalists in London.

He developed his mind map method from the 1960s. In 1971 he founded the company "Buzan World", which is now known as "ThinkBuzan". With this he pursued further training programs for mind maps and speed reading as well as memory training. In 1989 he founded the Brain Trust Foundation .

Buzan initiated numerous competitions for cognitive performance. In 1984 he founded the "World Speed ​​Reading Championships" as an international championship for speed reading, to whose methodological development he had contributed with his work on mind maps. With his friend, British chess master Raymond Keene , he founded the "World Memory Championship" in 1991 as an international comparison competition for memory performance. From 1995 onwards, Keene and Buzan repeatedly organized the “World Mindmap and Creativity Championship”. Together with Keene and the juggler Michael Gelb, Buzan also founded the show event "Festival of the Mind" for the "five sports of learning": memory, speed reading, IQ, creativity and mind map, which have been running in parallel since it was first held in the Royal Albert Hall in 1996 to the World Memory Championships in Oxford .

Others

In 1967, Buzan founded the Salatticum Poets association with John Carder Bush and Jeremy Cartland. A first collection of poems, Spore One , was published in a limited edition in 1971. In 2007 the first edition of Requiem for Ted (Hughes) and Concordia , a volume of poetry about the Concorde aircraft, was published . He wrote the poems for the latter volume mostly on flights on this plane.

1981 initiated and taught Buzan for the project Soweto in 2000 the South African government, a super-school class in which he taught 2,000 students. He expanded this to include lessons for 9,000 children in London's Royal Albert Hall and was finally able to teach one hundred thousand children between 8 and 16 years of age in groups of ten on September 17, 2011, which he even succeeded in doing in England and the USA through satellite connection.

At the 1988 Olympic Games in Korea, Buzan supported the rowers of Great Britain as a mental trainer in the coaching staff - as well as at the Olympic Games in Barcelona in 1992 and those in Sydney in 2000. From 1990 he also supported the Marlow Rowing Club as a mental trainer .

In the world chess championship match between Kasparov and Kramnik - initiated in 2000 by Brain Games, an internet platform by Raymond Keene, bypassing the world chess federation FIDE - Buzan was chairman of the arbitration tribunal.

Awards and honors

  • Education Industry Life Achievement Award, 2013.
  • Visiting Professor, Stenden University, 2010.
  • Honorary member of the UK Guild of Educators, 2009.
  • At the Ministry of Higher Education of Malaysia, he has been an honorary member of the Academy of Leadership in Higher Education since 2009.
  • Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Creativity Association, 2008.
  • Buzan won the Great Education Debate at the National Teachers' Education Conference in England in 2007.
  • Special Recognition Award, presented by the Mexican President Vincente Fox for persistent and outstanding service in supporting Mexican education and good governance initiatives, 2005.
  • In 1997 he was awarded the honorary black belt in Aikidō for his services to teaching .
  • In 1994 Forbes magazine selected him as one of the top four speakers worldwide for his lectures - together with Mikhail Gorbachev , Henry Kissinger and Margaret Thatcher .
  • The Eagle Catcher Award from Electronic Data Systems, given for trying to create the impossible and achieving this goal in 1991.
  • Honorary Citizenship of the City of London (Freeman of the City of London)., 1984

Works

In total, Buzan has published more than 120 works. His books have been translated into 22 languages ​​and published in 50 countries.

  • The Speed ​​Reading Book. 1971 (9th edition, 2010). German: Speed ​​Reading. Read faster - understand more - remember better.
  • Use your head. 1974 (7th edition, 2010) German: Head training: Instructions for creative thinking - tests and exercises. Mosaic at Goldmann, Munich, ISBN 978-3-442-10926-5 .
  • Use your memory. 1986 (7th edition, 2010). German: Don't forget anything! Head training for a super memory.
  • Master your memory. 1st edition, 1988. (7th edition, 2010).
  • with Barry Buzan : The Mind Map Book. 1993. German: The Mind Map Book. The best way to increase your intellectual potential. Translated from the English by Christiana Haack. mvg, Landsberg am Lech, 1996, ISBN 3-478-71730-2 .
  • with Raymond Keene : Buzan's Book of Genius. 1994. German: The Grips Formula - Unleash your intellectual potential.
  • with Michael J. Gelb : Lessons from the Art of Juggling. 1994. German: The art of juggling. 1996.
  • with Raymond Keene: Book of Mental World Records. 1997 (2nd edition, 2005).
  • Head first. 2000.
  • The Power of Intelligence, 5 volumes. 2001-2003.
  • Brain Child. 2003.
  • Mind Maps for Kids, 3 volumes. 2003-2005 (2nd edition, 2007-2008).
  • The Ultimate Book of Mind Maps. 2005.
  • Embracing Change. 2005 (2nd edition, 2006). German: Change now! Shaping the future with mind maps.
  • Age-Proof Your Brain. 2007.
  • The Study Skills Handbook. 2007.
  • Collins Language Revolution Beginners / Collins Language Revolution Beginners Plus for Spanish and French. 2008-2009.
  • Mind Maps For Business. 2010. German: Business Mindmap.

Television documentary

The television documentary Use your head was broadcast in 1973 and 1974 on the British broadcaster BBC as a ten-part series. Another documentary ( The Enchanted Loom ) about future forms of education was broadcast in 1974, also by the BBC, as a ten-part series.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Gravest of News! In: Tonybuzan.com. April 13, 2019, accessed April 13, 2019 .
  2. ^ Obituary: Tony Buzan, educational consultant who created the Mind Map learning technique , The Herald , April 20, 2019
  3. ^ Prize winner 2013: Tony Buzan. In: Life-Achievement-Award.de. Retrieved April 13, 2019 . }
  4. ↑ Buzan, Tony. In: Worldcat . Retrieved on April 13, 2019 (English): "693 works in 2,175 publications in 22 languages ​​and 25,504 library holdings"
personal data
SURNAME Buzan, Tony
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Buzan, Anthony Peter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British author of popular science books on creativity, mnemonics and learning
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 2019