The Most Famous
PSYCHOLOGISTS from Latvia
This page contains a list of the greatest Latvian Psychologists. The pantheon dataset contains 183 Psychologists, 1 of which were born in Latvia. This makes Latvia the birth place of the 25th most number of Psychologists behind New Zealand and Belgium.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Latvian Psychologists of all time. This list of famous Latvian Psychologists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Oswald Külpe (1862 - 1915)
With an HPI of 55.20, Oswald Külpe is the most famous Latvian Psychologist. His biography has been translated into 23 different languages on wikipedia.
Oswald Külpe (German: [ˈkylpə]; 3 August 1862 – 30 December 1915) was a German structural psychologist of the late 19th and early 20th century. Külpe, who is lesser known than his German mentor, Wilhelm Wundt, revolutionized experimental psychology at his time. In his obituary, Aloys Fischer wrote that, “undoubtedly Külpe was the second founder of experimental psychology on German soil; for with every change of base he made it a requirement that an experimental laboratory should be provided.” Külpe studied as a doctoral student and assistant to Wundt at the University of Leipzig, though his ideas differed from Wundt as he developed his own research (Boring, 1961). Külpe made significant contributions to the field of psychology, some of which are still relevant, including the systematic experimental introspection, imageless thoughts, mental sets, and abstraction.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as psychologists born between 1862 and 1862. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased psychologists include Oswald Külpe.
