PSYCHOLOGIST

William Stern

1871 - 1938

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Louis William Stern (born Ludwig Wilhelm Stern; April 29, 1871 – March 27, 1938) was a German American 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 19,740 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). William Stern is the 76th most popular psychologist (up from 79th in 2019), the 1,069th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,039th in 2019) and the 13th 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 76 out of 235. Before him are Mary Ainsworth, Antonio Damasio, Ernst Heinrich Weber, George Armitage Miller, Karl Bühler, and Edward C. Tolman. After him are Ludwig Binswanger, Timothy Leary, Paul Watzlawick, Edward B. Titchener, Jean Tatlock, and G. Stanley Hall.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1871, William Stern ranks 27. Before him are Giacomo Balla, Alexander von Zemlinsky, Grand Duke George Alexandrovich of Russia, Stjepan Radić, Émile Borel, and Maurice Garin. After him are Cordell Hull, Leonid Andreyev, Ernst Zermelo, Walter Bradford Cannon, Nicolae Iorga, and Princess Hélène of Orléans. Among people deceased in 1938, William Stern ranks 43. Before him are Franz I, Prince of Liechtenstein, Nikolai Trubetzkoy, Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, Andrej Hlinka, Ernst Barlach, and Alfonso, Prince of Asturias. After him are Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark, Marianne von Werefkin, Yakov Yurovsky, Yevhen Konovalets, Nikolay Krestinsky, and Robert Wiene.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, William Stern ranks 1,069 out of 7,253. Before him are Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg (1830), Engelbert Humperdinck (1854), Julius Wellhausen (1844), Georg Kaiser (1878), Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1876), and Oswald Pohl (1892). After him are Karl Mack von Leiberich (1752), Princess Marie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1845), Wolfgang Overath (1943), Georg-Hans Reinhardt (1887), Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine (1823), and Margaret II, Countess of Hainaut (1311).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Germany

Among psychologists born in Germany, William Stern ranks 13. Before him are Kurt Koffka (1886), Fritz Perls (1893), Karl Abraham (1877), Ernst Kretschmer (1888), Ernst Heinrich Weber (1795), and Karl Bühler (1879). After him are Rudolf Arnheim (1904), Marie-Louise von Franz (1915), Adolf Bastian (1826), Ulric Neisser (1928), Johannes Heinrich Schultz (1884), and Frieda Fromm-Reichmann (1889).

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