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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 91,056 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. Karl Bühler is the 85th most popular psychologist (up from 87th in 2019), the 1,075th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,111th in 2019) and the 13th 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 85 out of 183Before him are William Stern, Paul Watzlawick, David McClelland, Walter Bradford Cannon, Muzafer Sherif, and Ludwig Binswanger. After him are Vladimir Bekhterev, Benjamin Bloom, Donald O. Hebb, Antonio Damasio, George Armitage Miller, and Rollo May.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Karl Bühler ranks 37Before him are Frederick Griffith, Hans Lammers, E. M. Forster, Chen Duxiu, Pál Teleki, and Aleksandar Stamboliyski. After him are Friedrich Adler, Léon Jouhaux, Ali of Hejaz, Shunroku Hata, Boris Savinkov, and Huda Sha'arawi. Among people deceased in 1963, Karl Bühler ranks 37Before him are Georg-Hans Reinhardt, Richard Barthelmess, Józef Gosławski, Kurt Zeitzler, Oleg Penkovsky, and Pedro Armendáriz. After him are Piero Manzoni, William Beveridge, Alois Hudal, Princess Alexandra of Hanover, William Carlos Williams, and W. E. B. Du Bois.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Karl Bühler ranks 1,075 out of 6,142Before him are Princess Henrietta of Nassau-Weilburg (1797), Harald Schumacher (1954), Helmut Schön (1915), Joachim I Nestor, Elector of Brandenburg (1484), Adam Elsheimer (1578), and Lale Andersen (1905). After him are Wilhelm Gustloff (1895), Carl Reinecke (1824), Johann Deisenhofer (1943), Walter Baade (1893), Hans Magnus Enzensberger (1929), and Wilhelm Tempel (1821).

Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Germany

Among psychologists born in Germany, Karl Bühler ranks 13Before him are Fritz Perls (1893), Ernst Kretschmer (1888), Kurt Koffka (1886), Ernst Heinrich Weber (1795), Karl Abraham (1877), and William Stern (1871). After him are Rudolf Arnheim (1904), Marie-Louise von Franz (1915), Adolf Bastian (1826), Ulric Neisser (1928), Frieda Fromm-Reichmann (1889), and Charlotte Bühler (1893).