PSYCHOLOGIST

Max Wertheimer

1880 - 1943

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Max Wertheimer (April 15, 1880 – October 12, 1943) was a psychologist who was one of the three founders of Gestalt psychology, along with Kurt Koffka and Wolfgang Köhler. He is known for his book, Productive Thinking, and for conceiving the phi phenomenon as part of his work in Gestalt psychology. Wertheimer became interested in psychology and studied under Carl Stumpf at the University of Berlin. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Max Wertheimer has received more than 454,324 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Max Wertheimer is the 45th most popular psychologist (up from 47th in 2019), the 72nd most popular biography from Czechia (down from 67th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Czech Psychologist.

Max Wertheimer is most famous for his Gestalt theory of perception. This theory states that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Max Wertheimer ranks 45 out of 235. Before him are Donald Winnicott, John Bowlby, Milton H. Erickson, Wolfgang Köhler, Elton Mayo, and Alfred Kinsey. After him are Sándor Ferenczi, Raymond Cattell, Princess Marie Bonaparte, Sabina Spielrein, Bruno Bettelheim, and Albert Ellis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, Max Wertheimer ranks 22. Before him are Ze'ev Jabotinsky, Werner von Fritsch, Premchand, Wilhelm List, Elton Mayo, and Paul Ehrenfest. After him are Otto Weininger, H. L. Mencken, Vajiravudh, Bruno Taut, Alexander Blok, and Kuniaki Koiso. Among people deceased in 1943, Max Wertheimer ranks 19. Before him are Henri La Fontaine, Yakov Dzhugashvili, Chaim Soutine, Władysław Sikorski, Alexandre Millerand, and Nikolai Vavilov. After him are Alexandre Yersin, Maurice Denis, Julius Fučík, Beatrix Potter, Gustav Vigeland, and Max Reinhardt.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Max Wertheimer ranks 72 out of 1,200. Before him are Jerome of Prague (1379), Karl Kraus (1874), Lída Baarová (1914), Carl Ferdinand Cori (1896), Eugen Böhm von Bawerk (1851), and Bohuslav Martinů (1890). After him are Karl Hermann Frank (1898), Karel Schwarzenberg (1937), Matthias Sindelar (1903), František Kupka (1871), Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679), and Josef Hoffmann (1870).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Czechia

Among psychologists born in Czechia, Max Wertheimer ranks 2. Before him are Sigmund Freud (1856). After him are Stanislav Grof (1931).

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