The Most Famous
PSYCHOLOGISTS from Belgium
This page contains a list of the greatest Belgian Psychologists. The pantheon dataset contains 235 Psychologists, 1 of which were born in Belgium. This makes Belgium the birth place of the 24th most number of Psychologists behind Portugal, and New Zealand.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Belgian Psychologists of all time. This list of famous Belgian Psychologists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Ovide Decroly (1871 - 1932)
With an HPI of 56.56, Ovide Decroly is the most famous Belgian Psychologist. His biography has been translated into 18 different languages on wikipedia.
Jean-Ovide Decroly (Ronse, 23 July 1871 – Uccle, 10 September 1932) was a Belgian teacher and psychologist. He studied medicine at the University of Ghent, with half a year at the University of Berlin where he studied the action of toxins and antitoxins on general nutrition in 1898. He later worked with (mentally) handicapped children at the neurological clinic in Brussels. Decroly founded The Hermitage School in 1907. He was a freemason, and a member of the lodge Les Amis Philanthropes of the Grand Orient of Belgium in Brussels. Nowadays the "Ecole Decroly" (based in Uccle, Brussels, a school reaching from kindergarten to baccalaureate) is following his pedagogical approach.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Belgian psychologists born between 1871 and 1871. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Belgian psychologists include Ovide Decroly.
