PSYCHOLOGIST

Wolfgang Köhler

1887 - 1967

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Wolfgang Köhler (21 January 1887 – 11 June 1967) was a German psychologist and phenomenologist who, like Max Wertheimer and Kurt Koffka, contributed to the creation of Gestalt psychology. During the Nazi regime in Germany, he protested against the dismissal of Jewish professors from universities, as well as the requirement that professors give a Nazi salute at the beginning of their classes. In 1935 he left the country for the United States, where Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania offered him a professorship. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wolfgang Köhler has received more than 435,715 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Wolfgang Köhler is the 42nd most popular psychologist (up from 55th in 2019), the 7th most popular biography from Estonia (up from 8th in 2019) and the most popular Estonian Psychologist.

Wolfgang Köhler is most famous for his work with apes in the wild, and his research on the intelligence of apes.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Wolfgang Köhler ranks 42 out of 235. Before him are Eric Berne, Lawrence Kohlberg, Hans Eysenck, Donald Winnicott, John Bowlby, and Milton H. Erickson. After him are Elton Mayo, Alfred Kinsey, Max Wertheimer, Sándor Ferenczi, Raymond Cattell, and Princess Marie Bonaparte.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Wolfgang Köhler ranks 30. Before him are Georg Trakl, Henry Moseley, Georgia O'Keeffe, Ruth Benedict, Leopold Ružička, and Nadia Boulanger. After him are Nikolai Vavilov, Gustav Ludwig Hertz, Lothar Rendulic, August Macke, Erich Mendelsohn, and Kurt Schwitters. Among people deceased in 1967, Wolfgang Köhler ranks 25. Before him are Rodion Malinovsky, Ilya Ehrenburg, Johannes Itten, Felix Yusupov, John Coltrane, and Richard Kuhn. After him are Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, Françoise Dorléac, Shigeru Yoshida, Norman Angell, Hermann Joseph Muller, and Brian Epstein.

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In Estonia

Among people born in Estonia, Wolfgang Köhler ranks 7 out of 351. Before him are Catherine I of Russia (1684), Alfred Rosenberg (1893), Emil Lenz (1804), Arvo Pärt (1935), Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen (1778), and Karl Ernst von Baer (1792). After him are Konstantin Päts (1874), Lennart Meri (1929), Paul Keres (1916), Louis Kahn (1901), Arnold Rüütel (1928), and Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow (1929).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Estonia

Among psychologists born in Estonia, Wolfgang Köhler ranks 1. After him are Jaak Panksepp (1943).

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