PSYCHOLOGIST

Gustav Fechner

1801 - 1887

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Gustav Theodor Fechner (; German: [ˈfɛçnɐ]; 19 April 1801 – 18 November 1887) was a German physicist, philosopher, and experimental psychologist. A pioneer in experimental psychology and founder of psychophysics (techniques for measuring the mind), he inspired many 20th-century scientists and philosophers. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gustav Fechner has received more than 397,627 page views. His biography is available in 56 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 52 in 2019). Gustav Fechner is the 26th most popular psychologist (up from 29th in 2019), the 71st most popular biography from Poland (down from 70th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Polish Psychologist.

Gustav Fechner was a German physiologist and psychologist who is most famous for his psychophysical law, which states that the magnitude of a sensation is proportional to the logarithm of the stimulus intensity.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Gustav Fechner ranks 26 out of 235. Before him are Irvin D. Yalom, Wilhelm Reich, Edward Thorndike, B. F. Skinner, Anna Freud, and Melanie Klein. After him are Karen Horney, Alfred Binet, Hermann Ebbinghaus, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Hermann Rorschach, and Howard Gardner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1801, Gustav Fechner ranks 3. Before him are Vincenzo Bellini, and Brigham Young. After him are Josip Jelačić, Frédéric Bastiat, Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria, John of Saxony, Joseph Plateau, Johannes Peter Müller, Mikhail Ostrogradsky, Amalie Auguste of Bavaria, and John Henry Newman. Among people deceased in 1887, Gustav Fechner ranks 3. Before him are Gustav Kirchhoff, and Alexander Borodin. After him are Aleksandr Ulyanov, Jenny Lind, Eugène Edine Pottier, Ivan Kramskoi, Multatuli, Johann Jakob Bachofen, Friedrich von Amerling, Alfred Krupp, and Juan, Count of Montizón.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Gustav Fechner ranks 71 out of 1,694. Before him are Emanuel Lasker (1868), Faustina Kowalska (1905), John II Casimir Vasa (1609), Władysław III of Poland (1424), Erich von Falkenhayn (1861), and Walther Nernst (1864). After him are Marie Walewska (1786), Anna Jagiellon (1523), Jakob Böhme (1575), Ladislaus I of Hungary (1046), Werner von Blomberg (1878), and Tamara de Lempicka (1898).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Poland

Among psychologists born in Poland, Gustav Fechner ranks 2. Before him are Kurt Lewin (1890). After him are Solomon Asch (1907), Alice Miller (1923), Hugo Münsterberg (1863), Helene Deutsch (1884), Kurt Goldstein (1878), and Abraham Brill (1874).

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