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PSYCHOLOGIST

Bluma Zeigarnik

1900 - 1988

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Bluma Zeigarnik (Russian: Блю́ма Ву́льфовна Зейга́рник; 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 194,766 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Bluma Zeigarnik is the 147th most popular psychologist (up from 154th in 2019), the 61st most popular biography from Lithuania (up from 69th in 2019) and the most popular Lithuanian Psychologist.

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  • 22

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  • 4.72

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Bluma Zeigarnik ranks 147 out of 183Before her are Roberto Assagioli, Wilfred Bion, Benjamin Libet, Jordan Peterson, Raymond Moody, and James J. Gibson. After her are Rensis Likert, Julian Rotter, Fritz Heider, Lisbeth Palme, Kurt Goldstein, and Brian Weiss.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Bluma Zeigarnik ranks 117Before her are Xavier Cugat, Evald Aav, Oskar Fischinger, Ibrahim Abboud, Lidia Ruslanova, and Victor Young. After her are Catherine Hessling, Luigi Longo, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Santos Urdinarán, Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, and Hermann Esser. Among people deceased in 1988, Bluma Zeigarnik ranks 80Before her are Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar, Anna Mahler, Françoise Dolto, Edgar Faure, Divine, and Anne Ramsey. After her are Raymond Williams, Hal Ashby, Viktors Arājs, Mikha'il Na'ima, Seán MacBride, and Fritz Heider.

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In Lithuania

Among people born in Lithuania, Bluma Zeigarnik ranks 61 out of 287Before her are Hermann Sudermann (1857), Jonas Basanavičius (1851), Laurence Harvey (1928), Clara Rockmore (1911), Simon Dach (1605), and Stanisław Bułak-Bałachowicz (1883). After her are Donatas Banionis (1924), Teresa Żylis-Gara (1930), George Maciunas (1931), Daumantas of Pskov (1240), Jerzy Radziwiłł (1556), and Branislaw Tarashkyevich (1892).

Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Lithuania

Among psychologists born in Lithuania, Bluma Zeigarnik ranks 1