PSYCHOLOGIST

Kurt Goldstein

1878 - 1965

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Kurt Goldstein (November 6, 1878 – September 19, 1965) was a German neurologist and psychiatrist who created a holistic theory of the organism. Educated in medicine, Goldstein studied under Carl Wernicke and Ludwig Edinger where he focused on neurology and psychiatry. His clinical work helped inspire the establishment of The Institute for Research into the Consequences of Brain Injuries. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kurt Goldstein has received more than 168,791 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Kurt Goldstein is the 134th most popular psychologist (up from 152nd in 2019), the 482nd most popular biography from Poland (up from 555th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Polish Psychologist.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Kurt Goldstein ranks 134 out of 235Before her are Frans de Waal, Johannes Heinrich Schultz, Amos Tversky, George Kelly, Steven Pinker, and Helene Deutsch. After her are Havelock Ellis, J. P. Guilford, Henri Wallon, Brian Weiss, Léopold Szondi, and Elizabeth Loftus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Kurt Goldstein ranks 72Before her are Walter Heitz, Şehzade Mehmed Abdülkadir, Horacio Quiroga, Maurice René Fréchet, José Miaja, and Alexander Tamanian. After her are Wander Johannes de Haas, Erich Mühsam, Mikhail Artsybashev, Maxie Long, Grigory Petrovsky, and Lillian Moller Gilbreth. Among people deceased in 1965, Kurt Goldstein ranks 66Before her are Sālote Tupou III, Ladislas Starevich, Shirley Jackson, Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Edgard Varèse, and Leopold Figl. After her are William Heard Kilpatrick, Ladislao Vajda, Corrado Gini, Harry Porter, Odile Defraye, and Bertil Lindblad.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Kurt Goldstein ranks 482 out of 1,694Before her are Zawisza Czarny (1379), Beata Tyszkiewicz (1938), Sholem Asch (1880), Konstantin Petrovich von Kaufmann (1818), Helene Deutsch (1884), and Stefania Wilczyńska (1886). After her are Symon Budny (1530), Charles Proteus Steinmetz (1865), Wolfhart Pannenberg (1928), Józef Haller (1873), Jan Jesenius (1566), and Andrzej Szarmach (1950).

Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Poland

Among psychologists born in Poland, Kurt Goldstein ranks 7Before her are Kurt Lewin (1890), Gustav Fechner (1801), Solomon Asch (1907), Alice Miller (1923), Hugo Münsterberg (1863), and Helene Deutsch (1884). After her are Abraham Brill (1874).