PSYCHOLOGIST

Karl Bühler

1879 - 1963

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Karl Ludwig Bühler (27 May 1879 – 24 October 1963) was a German psychologist and linguist. In psychology he is known for his work in gestalt psychology, and he was one of the founders of the Würzburg School of psychology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karl Bühler has received more than 97,419 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Karl Bühler is the 74th most popular psychologist (up from 85th in 2019), the 1,023rd most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,075th in 2019) and the 12th most popular German Psychologist.

Karl Bühler is most famous for his theory of speech acts, which was based on the idea that linguistic utterances can be classified into different types according to their function in communication.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Karl Bühler ranks 74 out of 235. Before him are Ernst Kretschmer, Otto Rank, Mary Ainsworth, Antonio Damasio, Ernst Heinrich Weber, and George Armitage Miller. After him are Edward C. Tolman, William Stern, Ludwig Binswanger, Timothy Leary, Paul Watzlawick, and Edward B. Titchener.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Karl Bühler ranks 38. Before him are Knud Rasmussen, Hans Lammers, Léon Jouhaux, Chen Duxiu, Pál Teleki, and Franz Reichelt. After him are Friedrich Adler, E. M. Forster, Aleksandar Stamboliyski, Periyar E. V. Ramasamy, Frederick Griffith, and Adolf Strauss. Among people deceased in 1963, Karl Bühler ranks 34. Before him are Oleg Penkovsky, Jacques Hadamard, Richard Baer, Kurt Zeitzler, Józef Gosławski, and Richard Barthelmess. After him are Georg-Hans Reinhardt, Pedro Armendáriz, Michael Rockefeller, Piero Manzoni, Sivananda Saraswati, and Eduard Spranger.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Karl Bühler ranks 1,023 out of 7,253. Before him are Frederick III, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (1597), Gert Fröbe (1913), Hrotsvitha (935), Walter Röhrl (1947), Charles De Coster (1827), and Christian Wirth (1885). After him are Franz Rosenzweig (1886), Günther Lütjens (1889), Beate Klarsfeld (1939), Erwin Neher (1944), Carl von Linde (1842), and Friedrich Jeckeln (1895).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Germany

Among psychologists born in Germany, Karl Bühler ranks 12. Before him are Hans Eysenck (1916), Kurt Koffka (1886), Fritz Perls (1893), Karl Abraham (1877), Ernst Kretschmer (1888), and Ernst Heinrich Weber (1795). After him are William Stern (1871), Rudolf Arnheim (1904), Marie-Louise von Franz (1915), Adolf Bastian (1826), Ulric Neisser (1928), and Johannes Heinrich Schultz (1884).

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