Wolfgang Bringmann

Wolfgang Bringmann (born June 13, 1933 in Darmstadt ; † June 7, 2009 in Austin (Texas) ) was a German psychologist . He was a clinical psychologist , history psychologist and taught a. a. at the University of South Alabama .

Life

Wolfgang Georg Bringmann was the son of a Lutheran pastor and the youngest of five children.

In 1956 he completed his psychology and English studies at the Pedagogical Institute Darmstadt in Jungsheim (today School of Education at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt ). After graduating, he taught at a public school for a year.

Bringmann graduated in "General Experimental Psychology" in 1959 and received his doctorate in 1964 in the field of experimental and clinical psychology.

Bringmann was married to his wife Norma and had two sons.

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Bringmann has also dealt with the history of psychology (mostly in Germany in the 19th century) for about 30 years and has published works (mostly in English or German). Bringmann was also a clinical psychologist.

He worked with European and North American colleagues to gain insight into the lives and works of some of the most famous early psychologists - notably Wilhelm Wundt , Gustav Theodor Fechner, and Hermann Ebbinghaus . Bringmann taught at universities for 35 years: at the University of Alabama , the University of Mississippi and the University of Windsor (Windsor, Ontario, Canada), where he was Head of the Department of Psychology in 1969 and 1970, and finally at the University of South Alabama , where he was director of the Psychology Institute between 1976 and 1981 and where Bringmann retired in 1997.

Bringmann took an active part in the Society for the History of Psychology, a department of the American Psychological Society ("Society for the History of Psychology" (American Psychological Association Division 26)) and was in 1988 head of this department.

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In 1998 Bringmann donated his estate to the Hagen Research Archive for the History of Psychology . The archive holdings include personal documents, such as B. Certificates and awards for Bringmann, but above all documents on the life and work of psychologists such as Gustav Theodor Fechner, Wilhelm Wundt, Hermann Ebbinghaus, etc., systematically sorted by name, time period, and topic. The archive of Hugo Münsterberg is part of the donation .

Publications

• G. Eckard, WG Bringmann, L. Sprung, U. Bronfenbrenner, K.-F. Wessel (Ed.): Contributions to a History of Developmental Psychology: International William T. Preyer Symposium: International Symposium Proceedings. (= New Babylon. Volume 44). de Gruyter Mouton, 1985, ISBN 3-11-009977-2 .
• WG Bringmann, HE Lück, R. Miller, CE Early (Eds.): A Pictorial History of Psychology. Quintessence Publishing, 1997, ISBN 0-86715-292-3 .
• WG Bringmann, RD Tweney: Wundt Studies: A Centennial Collection. Hogrefe & Huber, 1980, ISBN 088937001 .

obituary

• CE Early, M. Bringmann: Wolfgang Georg Bringmann (1933-2009). In: American Psychologist. Vol 65, No. 4, May-Jun 2010, p. 296.