PSYCHOLOGIST

Hermann Ebbinghaus

1850 - 1909

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Hermann Ebbinghaus (24 January 1850 – 26 February 1909) was a German psychologist who pioneered the experimental study of memory. Ebbinghaus discovered the forgetting curve and the spacing effect. He was the first person to describe the learning curve. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hermann Ebbinghaus has received more than 850,013 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Hermann Ebbinghaus is the 29th most popular psychologist (down from 28th in 2019), the 323rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 299th in 2019) and the 5th most popular German Psychologist.

Hermann Ebbinghaus is most famous for his work on memory, which led to the development of the "forgetting curve."

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.49

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Hermann Ebbinghaus ranks 29 out of 235. Before him are B. F. Skinner, Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, Gustav Fechner, Karen Horney, and Alfred Binet. After him are Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Hermann Rorschach, Howard Gardner, Gordon Allport, Paul Ekman, and Jerome Bruner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1850, Hermann Ebbinghaus ranks 9. Before him are Robert Louis Stevenson, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Edward Smith, Eduard Bernstein, Sofia Kovalevskaya, and Karl Ferdinand Braun. After him are Charles Richet, Pierre Loti, Mihai Eminescu, Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, Oliver Heaviside, and Ignác Goldziher. Among people deceased in 1909, Hermann Ebbinghaus ranks 7. Before him are Leopold II of Belgium, Cesare Lombroso, Geronimo, Itō Hirobumi, Isaac Albéniz, and Hermann Minkowski. After him are Francisco Tárrega, Peder Severin Krøyer, Karl Theodor, Duke in Bavaria, Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia, Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia, and Adelaide of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hermann Ebbinghaus ranks 323 out of 7,253. Before him are Johann Friedrich Struensee (1737), Joseph Beuys (1921), Ilse Koch (1906), Gustav Stresemann (1878), Franz Halder (1884), and Frederick I of Sweden (1676). After him are Friedrich Carl von Savigny (1779), Friedrich Bessel (1784), Michael Haneke (1942), Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781), August Kekulé (1829), and Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Germany

Among psychologists born in Germany, Hermann Ebbinghaus ranks 5. Before him are Erich Fromm (1900), Wilhelm Wundt (1832), Erik Erikson (1902), and Karen Horney (1885). After him are Hans Eysenck (1916), Kurt Koffka (1886), Fritz Perls (1893), Karl Abraham (1877), Ernst Kretschmer (1888), Ernst Heinrich Weber (1795), and Karl Bühler (1879).

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