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PSYCHOLOGIST

William Stern

1871 - 1938

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William Stern (born Ludwig Wilhelm Stern; April 29, 1871 – March 27, 1938) was a German psychologist and philosopher who originated personalistic psychology, which placed emphasis on the individual by examining measurable personality traits as well as the interaction of those traits within each person to create the self. Stern coined the term intelligence quotient (IQ) and invented the tone variator as a new way to study human perception of sound. Stern studied psychology and philosophy under Hermann Ebbinghaus at the University of Berlin, and quickly moved on to teach at the University of Breslau. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Stern has received more than 18,332 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). William Stern is the 79th most popular psychologist (down from 76th in 2019), the 1,039th most popular biography from Germany (down from 941st in 2019) and the 12th most popular German Psychologist.

William Stern is most famous for his work in the field of psychology, specifically in the study of intelligence. He created the term IQ, and was the first to measure intelligence in a standardized way.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, William Stern ranks 79 out of 183Before him are Mary Ainsworth, Otto Rank, Ernst Heinrich Weber, Karl Abraham, Alice Miller, and Harry Harlow. After him are Paul Watzlawick, David McClelland, Walter Bradford Cannon, Muzafer Sherif, Ludwig Binswanger, and Karl Bühler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1871, William Stern ranks 30Before him are Maurice Garin, Alexander von Zemlinsky, Stjepan Radić, Cordell Hull, Stephen Crane, and Ernst Zermelo. After him are Leonid Andreyev, Walter Bradford Cannon, Lyonel Feininger, Princess Hélène of Orléans, Willem Mengelberg, and Nicolae Iorga. Among people deceased in 1938, William Stern ranks 43Before him are Yakov Yurovsky, Suzanne Lenglen, Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, Alfonso, Prince of Asturias, Mary Mallon, and Ernst Barlach. After him are Branislav Nušić, Andrej Hlinka, Joseph Bédier, Marianne von Werefkin, Nikolay Krestinsky, and Aleksandr Kuprin.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, William Stern ranks 1,039 out of 6,142Before him are Ernst Barlach (1870), Maximilian, Hereditary Prince of Saxony (1759), Stefan Lochner (1410), Martin Schulz (1955), Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg (1830), and Charles Louis, Hereditary Prince of Baden (1755). After him are Alfred Brehm (1829), Josef Harpe (1887), Uli Hoeneß (1952), John McEnroe (1959), Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia (1887), and Joseph Pilates (1883).

Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Germany

Among psychologists born in Germany, William Stern ranks 12Before him are Hans Eysenck (1916), Fritz Perls (1893), Ernst Kretschmer (1888), Kurt Koffka (1886), Ernst Heinrich Weber (1795), and Karl Abraham (1877). After him are Karl Bühler (1879), Rudolf Arnheim (1904), Marie-Louise von Franz (1915), Adolf Bastian (1826), Ulric Neisser (1928), and Frieda Fromm-Reichmann (1889).