PSYCHOLOGIST

Bluma Zeigarnik

1900 - 1988

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Bluma Zeigarnik (Russian: Блю́ма Ву́льфовна Зейга́рник, IPA: [ˈblʲumə ˈvulʲfəvnə zʲɪjˈɡarnʲɪk]; 9 November [O.S. 27 October] 1900 – 24 February 1988) was a Soviet psychologist of Lithuanian origin, a member of the Berlin School of experimental psychology and the so-called Vygotsky Circle. She contributed to the establishment of experimental psychopathology as a separate discipline in the Soviet Union in the post-World War II period. In the 1920s she conducted a study on memory, in which she compared memory in relation to interrupted and completed tasks. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bluma Zeigarnik has received more than 205,671 page views. Her biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Bluma Zeigarnik is the 118th most popular psychologist (up from 147th in 2019), the 50th most popular biography from Lithuania (up from 61st in 2019) and the most popular Lithuanian Psychologist.

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  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.45

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.40

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Bluma Zeigarnik ranks 118 out of 235. Before her are Robert Cialdini, Frederic Bartlett, Adolf Bastian, Aleksei N. Leontiev, Robert Sternberg, and Oswald Külpe. After her are Thomas Gordon, Henry Murray, Carol Gilligan, Ulric Neisser, Robert Plutchik, and Otto F. Kernberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Bluma Zeigarnik ranks 86. Before her are Joseph Needham, Herbert Bayer, Herberts Cukurs, Ernst Neufert, Kiyoo Kanda, and Hassan Fathy. After her are Otto Braun, Ernst Busch, Jiro Miyake, Duy Tân, Fulcanelli, and Coral Buttsworth. Among people deceased in 1988, Bluma Zeigarnik ranks 63. Before her are Carmen Polo, 1st Lady of Meirás, John Carradine, George Uhlenbeck, Sergey Gorshkov, Vladimír Menšík, and Lev Pontryagin. After her are Henry Murray, Branko Zebec, Takeo Miki, Anna Mahler, Piero Taruffi, and Viktors Arājs.

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In Lithuania

Among people born in Lithuania, Bluma Zeigarnik ranks 50 out of 328. Before her are Boris Skossyreff (1896), Augustinas Voldemaras (1883), Leo Jogiches (1867), Janusz Radziwiłł (1612), Sophia of Lithuania (1371), and Birutė (1317). After her are Leopold Godowsky (1870), Jonas Basanavičius (1851), Uljana Semjonova (1952), Elazar Shach (1898), Nina Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg (1913), and Krzysztof "Piorun" Radziwiłł (1547).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Lithuania

Among psychologists born in Lithuania, Bluma Zeigarnik ranks 1. 

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