1879 - 1963
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, Karl Bühler ranks 85 out of 183. Before 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.
1871 - 1938
HPI: 60.60
Rank: 79
1921 - 2007
HPI: 60.60
Rank: 80
1917 - 1998
HPI: 60.57
Rank: 81
1871 - 1945
HPI: 60.47
Rank: 82
1906 - 1988
HPI: 60.47
Rank: 83
1881 - 1966
HPI: 60.44
Rank: 84
1879 - 1963
HPI: 60.37
Rank: 85
1857 - 1927
HPI: 60.31
Rank: 86
1913 - 1999
HPI: 60.31
Rank: 87
1904 - 1985
HPI: 60.15
Rank: 88
1944 - Present
HPI: 60.12
Rank: 89
1920 - 2012
HPI: 60.07
Rank: 90
1909 - 1994
HPI: 59.81
Rank: 91
Among people born in 1879, Karl Bühler ranks 37. Before 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 37. Before 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.
1879 - 1941
HPI: 61.68
Rank: 31
1879 - 1962
HPI: 61.40
Rank: 32
1879 - 1970
HPI: 61.31
Rank: 33
1879 - 1942
HPI: 60.67
Rank: 34
1879 - 1941
HPI: 60.62
Rank: 35
1879 - 1923
HPI: 60.53
Rank: 36
1879 - 1963
HPI: 60.37
Rank: 37
1879 - 1960
HPI: 60.19
Rank: 38
1879 - 1954
HPI: 60.05
Rank: 39
1879 - 1935
HPI: 59.93
Rank: 40
1879 - 1962
HPI: 59.90
Rank: 41
1879 - 1925
HPI: 59.85
Rank: 42
1879 - 1947
HPI: 59.75
Rank: 43
1887 - 1963
HPI: 61.70
Rank: 31
1895 - 1963
HPI: 61.45
Rank: 32
1908 - 1963
HPI: 61.34
Rank: 33
1895 - 1963
HPI: 61.27
Rank: 34
1919 - 1963
HPI: 60.87
Rank: 35
1912 - 1963
HPI: 60.54
Rank: 36
1879 - 1963
HPI: 60.37
Rank: 37
1933 - 1963
HPI: 59.48
Rank: 38
1879 - 1963
HPI: 59.11
Rank: 39
1885 - 1963
HPI: 59.06
Rank: 40
1882 - 1963
HPI: 58.91
Rank: 41
1883 - 1963
HPI: 57.80
Rank: 42
1868 - 1963
HPI: 57.76
Rank: 43
Among people born in Germany, Karl Bühler ranks 1,075 out of 6,142. Before 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).
1797 - 1829
HPI: 60.41
Rank: 1,069
1954 - Present
HPI: 60.41
Rank: 1,070
1915 - 1996
HPI: 60.41
Rank: 1,071
1484 - 1535
HPI: 60.40
Rank: 1,072
1578 - 1610
HPI: 60.40
Rank: 1,073
1905 - 1972
HPI: 60.40
Rank: 1,074
1879 - 1963
HPI: 60.37
Rank: 1,075
1895 - 1936
HPI: 60.37
Rank: 1,076
1824 - 1910
HPI: 60.36
Rank: 1,077
1943 - Present
HPI: 60.35
Rank: 1,078
1893 - 1960
HPI: 60.35
Rank: 1,079
1929 - 2022
HPI: 60.35
Rank: 1,080
1821 - 1889
HPI: 60.34
Rank: 1,081
Among psychologists born in Germany, Karl Bühler ranks 13. Before 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).
1893 - 1970
HPI: 64.21
Rank: 7
1888 - 1964
HPI: 62.23
Rank: 8
1886 - 1941
HPI: 61.55
Rank: 9
1795 - 1878
HPI: 61.46
Rank: 10
1877 - 1925
HPI: 61.19
Rank: 11
1871 - 1938
HPI: 60.60
Rank: 12
1879 - 1963
HPI: 60.37
Rank: 13
1904 - 2007
HPI: 57.77
Rank: 14
1915 - 1998
HPI: 57.60
Rank: 15
1826 - 1905
HPI: 56.62
Rank: 16
1928 - 2012
HPI: 55.42
Rank: 17
1889 - 1957
HPI: 52.63
Rank: 18
1893 - 1974
HPI: 52.62
Rank: 19