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PSYCHOLOGIST

Hugo Münsterberg

1863 - 1916

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Hugo Münsterberg (; 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 292,616 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Hugo Münsterberg is the 103rd most popular psychologist (down from 95th in 2019), the 300th most popular biography from Poland (down from 276th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Polish Psychologist.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Hugo Münsterberg ranks 103 out of 183Before him are René Spitz, Benjamin Spock, Michael Balint, Urie Bronfenbrenner, Théodule-Armand Ribot, and Otto Gross. After him are Clark L. Hull, Heinz Kohut, Rudolf Arnheim, Édouard Claparède, Marie-Louise von Franz, and Carol Gilligan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1863, Hugo Münsterberg ranks 43Before him are Charles Spearman, John Charles Fields, Henry Royce, Mary Jane Kelly, W. I. Thomas, and Leopold Berchtold. After him are Andrés Bonifacio, Ludwig Borchardt, Felix Weingartner, Paul Painlevé, Abdul Karim, and Manuel Gomes da Costa. Among people deceased in 1916, Hugo Münsterberg ranks 45Before him are Vasily Surikov, Antonio Sant'Elia, Joseph Gallieni, Théodule-Armand Ribot, Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, and Hans Richter. After him are Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Torakusu Yamaha, Ōyama Iwao, Princess Adelheid-Marie of Anhalt-Dessau, Maria Alexandrovna Ulyanova, and Oswald Boelcke.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Hugo Münsterberg ranks 300 out of 1,454Before him are Martin Agricola (1486), Casimir II the Just (1138), Johanna Schopenhauer (1766), Hans Jeschonnek (1899), Hans Bellmer (1902), and Elizabeth Richeza of Poland (1286). After him are Józef Bem (1794), Ida Haendel (1928), Krzysztof Zanussi (1939), Chaïm Perelman (1912), Fritz Gerlich (1883), and Henry the Bearded (1163).

Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Poland

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