PSYCHOLOGIST

Ovide Decroly

1871 - 1932

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Jean-Ovide Decroly (Ronse, 23 July 1871 – Uccle, 10 September 1932) was a Belgian teacher and psychologist. He studied medicine at the University of Ghent, with half a year at the University of Berlin where he studied the action of toxins and antitoxins on general nutrition in 1898. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ovide Decroly has received more than 52,986 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Ovide Decroly is the 127th most popular psychologist (down from 115th in 2019), the 256th most popular biography from Belgium (down from 204th in 2019) and the most popular Belgian Psychologist.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Ovide Decroly ranks 127 out of 235. Before him are Carol Gilligan, Ulric Neisser, Robert Plutchik, Otto F. Kernberg, Urie Bronfenbrenner, and Serge Moscovici. After him are Frans de Waal, Johannes Heinrich Schultz, Amos Tversky, George Kelly, Steven Pinker, and Helene Deutsch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1871, Ovide Decroly ranks 45. Before him are William McDougall, Fedor Tokarev, Christian Morgenstern, Stephen Crane, Doppo Kunikida, and Jovan Dučić. After him are Mariano Fortuny, Cesare Mori, Hanns Heinz Ewers, Camille Huysmans, Guillermo Kahlo, and Wilhelm Stenhammar. Among people deceased in 1932, Ovide Decroly ranks 41. Before him are Guillaume Bigourdan, Alexander Grin, Johannes Schober, Hovannes Adamian, Emil Orlík, and Begum Rokeya. After him are Reginald Fessenden, Ramon Casas, Ivar Kreuger, John Philip Sousa, José Félix Uriburu, and René-Louis Baire.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Ovide Decroly ranks 256 out of 1,190. Before him are John II, Duke of Brabant (1275), Stromae (1985), Eugène Charles Catalan (1814), Rimbert (830), William of St-Thierry (1085), and Godfrey I, Count of Louvain (1060). After him are Gillis van Coninxloo (1544), Pierre Deligne (1944), Michel de Ghelderode (1898), Adam Frans van der Meulen (1632), John of Ruusbroec (1293), and Pierre de Decker (1812).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Belgium

Among psychologists born in Belgium, Ovide Decroly ranks 1. 

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