PSYCHOLOGIST

Théodore Flournoy

1854 - 1920

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Théodore Flournoy (15 August 1854 – 5 November 1920) was a Swiss professor of psychology at the University of Geneva and author of books on parapsychology and spiritism. He studied a wide variety of subjects before he devoted his life to psychology. He did extensive observations on a participant to investigate psychical phenomena. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Théodore Flournoy has received more than 56,324 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Théodore Flournoy is the 195th most popular psychologist, the 432nd most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 472nd in 2019) and the 9th most popular Swiss Psychologist.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Théodore Flournoy ranks 195 out of 235. Before him are Gustave Gilbert, Ronald Fairbairn, Laura Perls, Sandra Bem, Michael Tomasello, and Frederik van Eeden. After him are Jaak Panksepp, John C. Lilly, Alan Baddeley, Karl Lashley, Abraham Brill, and Anne Treisman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1854, Théodore Flournoy ranks 87. Before him are Joan Alcover, Nikolai Ruzsky, Alexandru Macedonski, L. A. Ring, Hans Carl Friedrich von Mangoldt, and Takamine Jōkichi. After him are Ruth Belville, Georges Eekhoud, Robert Borden, Adela Zamudio, Marcel Brillouin, and Hans Jæger. Among people deceased in 1920, Théodore Flournoy ranks 92. Before him are Arturo Soria y Mata, Heinrich Lammasch, Alexandru Macedonski, Theodor Philipsen, Dan Andersson, and Panas Myrny. After him are Hortense Schneider, Zygmunt Gorazdowski, Heorhiy Narbut, Gabrielle Réjane, Pier Andrea Saccardo, and Gérard Leman.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Théodore Flournoy ranks 432 out of 1,015. Before him are Patrick Juvet (1950), Philipp Etter (1891), Constant Fornerod (1819), Granit Xhaka (1992), Pier Francesco Mola (1612), and Johann III Bernoulli (1744). After him are Wilhelm His Sr. (1831), René Felber (1933), Josef Munzinger (1791), Simeon Bavier (1825), Charles Antenen (1929), and Walter Wild (1872).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Switzerland

Among psychologists born in Switzerland, Théodore Flournoy ranks 9. Before him are Hermann Rorschach (1884), Ludwig Binswanger (1881), Auguste Forel (1848), Édouard Claparède (1873), Edgar Schein (1928), and Otto Binswanger (1852).

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