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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 428,686 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Max Wertheimer is the 47th most popular psychologist (up from 49th in 2019), the 67th most popular biography from Czechia 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 47 out of 183. Before him are Aaron T. Beck, Donald Winnicott, Alfred Kinsey, Elton Mayo, Princess Marie Bonaparte, and Philip Zimbardo. After him are Stanley Milgram, Geert Hofstede, Solomon Asch, Fritz Perls, Raymond Cattell, and Sabina Spielrein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, Max Wertheimer ranks 21. Before him are Manuel Azaña, Wilhelm List, Werner von Fritsch, Premchand, Elton Mayo, and Otto Weininger. After him are H. L. Mencken, Ze'ev Jabotinsky, Alexander Blok, Bruno Taut, Michel Fokine, and Lionel Logue. Among people deceased in 1943, Max Wertheimer ranks 18. Before him are Yakov Dzhugashvili, Sophie Scholl, Henri La Fontaine, Beatrix Potter, Nikolai Vavilov, and Alexandre Millerand. After him are Władysław Sikorski, Chaim Soutine, Alexandre Yersin, Jean Moulin, Julius Fučík, and Leslie Howard.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Max Wertheimer ranks 67 out of 973. Before him are Victor Lustig (1890), Franz Werfel (1890), Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (1644), George of Poděbrady (1420), Peter Grünberg (1939), and Karl Kraus (1874). After him are Bonne of Luxembourg (1315), František Kupka (1871), Věra Čáslavská (1942), Matthias Sindelar (1903), Jerome of Prague (1379), and Jan Masaryk (1886).

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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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