PSYCHOLOGIST

Ernst Kretschmer

1888 - 1964

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Ernst Kretschmer (8 October 1888 – 8 February 1964) was a German psychiatrist who researched the human constitution and established a typology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ernst Kretschmer has received more than 263,827 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Ernst Kretschmer is the 68th most popular psychologist (down from 65th in 2019), the 928th most popular biography from Germany (down from 822nd in 2019) and the 10th most popular German Psychologist.

Ernst Kretschmer was a German psychiatrist who is most famous for his work on the somatotype theory. He believed that there were three body types: endomorph, mesomorph, and ectomorph.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Ernst Kretschmer ranks 68 out of 235. Before him are Karl Abraham, Stanislav Grof, Leon Festinger, Alice Miller, Philip Zimbardo, and Margaret Mahler. After him are Otto Rank, Mary Ainsworth, Antonio Damasio, Ernst Heinrich Weber, George Armitage Miller, and Karl Bühler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Ernst Kretschmer ranks 45. Before him are Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., Vladimir K. Zworykin, Ossip Zadkine, Frances Marion, Josef Albers, and Ernst Heinkel. After him are Carin Göring, August Kubizek, Irving Berlin, Oskar Schlemmer, Max Steiner, and John Foster Dulles. Among people deceased in 1964, Ernst Kretschmer ranks 27. Before him are Giorgio Morandi, Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, Alexandre Koyré, Alexander Archipenko, Emilio Aguinaldo, and Otto Wille Kuusinen. After him are Maurice Thorez, Prince Pierre, Duke of Valentinois, Paulino Alcántara, Douglas McGregor, Heinrich Neuhaus, and Andriy Melnyk.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ernst Kretschmer ranks 928 out of 7,253. Before him are Thomas Tuchel (1973), Julius Schreck (1898), Theodor Billroth (1829), Emil Maurice (1897), Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse (1868), and Ivan Rebroff (1931). After him are Steffi Graf (1969), John George III, Elector of Saxony (1647), Harald Quandt (1921), Adelaide of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg (1831), Franz Oppenheimer (1864), and Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (1942).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Germany

Among psychologists born in Germany, Ernst Kretschmer ranks 10. Before him are Karen Horney (1885), Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850), Hans Eysenck (1916), Kurt Koffka (1886), Fritz Perls (1893), and Karl Abraham (1877). After him are Ernst Heinrich Weber (1795), Karl Bühler (1879), William Stern (1871), Rudolf Arnheim (1904), Marie-Louise von Franz (1915), and Adolf Bastian (1826).

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