PSYCHOLOGIST

Hermann Ebbinghaus

1850 - 1909

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Hermann Ebbinghaus (24 January 1850 – 26 February 1909) was a German psychologist who pioneered the experimental study of memory. Ebbinghaus discovered the forgetting curve and the spacing effect. He was the first person to describe the learning curve. He was the father of the neo-Kantian philosopher Julius Ebbinghaus. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hermann Ebbinghaus is the 28th most popular psychologist (up from 29th in 2019), the 359th most popular biography from Germany (down from 323rd in 2019) and the 4th most popular German Psychologist.

Hermann Ebbinghaus is most famous for his work on memory, which led to the development of the "forgetting curve."

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Hermann Ebbinghaus ranks 28 out of 235. Before him are Irvin D. Yalom, B. F. Skinner, Edward Thorndike, Melanie Klein, Wilhelm Reich, and Gustav Fechner. After him are Aaron T. Beck, Alfred Binet, Karen Horney, Princess Marie Bonaparte, Howard Gardner, and Gordon Allport.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1850, Hermann Ebbinghaus ranks 11. Before him are Karl Ferdinand Braun, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Henry Louis Le Chatelier, Edward Smith, Sofia Kovalevskaya, and Eduard Bernstein. After him are Charles Richet, John Collier, Mihai Eminescu, Pierre Loti, Luigi Cadorna, and Lady Mary Victoria Douglas-Hamilton. Among people deceased in 1909, Hermann Ebbinghaus ranks 8. Before him are Cesare Lombroso, Geronimo, Isaac Albéniz, Itō Hirobumi, Hermann Minkowski, and Francisco Tárrega. After him are Karl Theodor, Duke in Bavaria, Peder Severin Krøyer, Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia, Adelaide of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg, Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia, and Besarion Jughashvili.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hermann Ebbinghaus ranks 359 out of 7,253. Before him are Arno Allan Penzias (1933), Paul Hindemith (1895), Klaus Meine (1948), Hermann Hoth (1885), Hans Fischer (1881), and Julius Streicher (1885). After him are Rudolf Carnap (1891), Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist (1881), Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria (1662), Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse (1868), Ludwig Beck (1880), and Rudolf Mössbauer (1929).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Germany

Among psychologists born in Germany, Hermann Ebbinghaus ranks 4. Before him are Erich Fromm (1900), Wilhelm Wundt (1832), and Erik Erikson (1902). After him are Karen Horney (1885), Hans Eysenck (1916), Ernst Heinrich Weber (1795), Kurt Koffka (1886), Fritz Perls (1893), William Stern (1871), Karl Bühler (1879), and Karl Abraham (1877).

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