PSYCHOLOGIST

Hugo Münsterberg

1863 - 1916

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Hugo Münsterberg (; German: [ˈmʏnstɐbɛʁk]; June 1, 1863 – December 16, 1916) was a German-American psychologist. He was one of the pioneers in applied psychology, extending his research and theories to industrial/organizational (I/O), legal, medical, clinical, educational and business settings. Münsterberg experienced immense turmoil with the outbreak of the First World War. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hugo Münsterberg has received more than 313,661 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Hugo Münsterberg is the 86th most popular psychologist (up from 103rd in 2019), the 267th most popular biography from Poland (up from 300th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Polish Psychologist.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Hugo Münsterberg ranks 86 out of 235. Before him are Edward B. Titchener, Jean Tatlock, G. Stanley Hall, David Wechsler, Walter Bradford Cannon, and Donald O. Hebb. After him are David McClelland, Rollo May, James McKeen Cattell, Frederick Herzberg, Rudolf Arnheim, and Muzafer Sherif.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1863, Hugo Münsterberg ranks 36. Before him are William Randolph Hearst, Leo Baekeland, Annie Jump Cannon, Essad Pasha Toptani, Andrés Bonifacio, and Paul Painlevé. After him are Mary Jane Kelly, Franz von Hipper, Abdul Karim, Albert Calmette, Felix Weingartner, and Archduke Eugen of Austria. Among people deceased in 1916, Hugo Münsterberg ranks 40. Before him are Percival Lowell, Gérard Encausse, Jean Webster, Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, Victoriano Huerta, and Hiram Maxim. After him are Pierre Duhem, Julius Fučík, Vasily Surikov, Cleveland Abbe, Théodule-Armand Ribot, and Joseph Gallieni.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Hugo Münsterberg ranks 267 out of 1,694. Before him are Kazimierz Deyna (1947), Wanda Landowska (1879), Magnus Hirschfeld (1868), Konstanty Kalinowski (1838), Gunderic (379), and Henryk Szeryng (1918). After him are Robert Wiene (1873), Jan Kochanowski (1530), Hans Kammler (1901), Hans-Jürgen Stumpff (1889), Victor Klemperer (1881), and Casimir II the Just (1138).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Poland

Among psychologists born in Poland, Hugo Münsterberg ranks 5. Before him are Kurt Lewin (1890), Gustav Fechner (1801), Solomon Asch (1907), and Alice Miller (1923). After him are Helene Deutsch (1884), Kurt Goldstein (1878), and Abraham Brill (1874).

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