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Jean Piaget

1896 - 1980

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Jean William Fritz Piaget (UK: , US: ; French: [ʒɑ̃ pjaʒɛ]; 9 August 1896 – 16 September 1980) was a Swiss psychologist known for his work on child development. Piaget's theory of cognitive development and epistemological view are together called genetic epistemology. Piaget placed great importance on the education of children. As the Director of the International Bureau of Education, he declared in 1934 that "only education is capable of saving our societies from possible collapse, whether violent, or gradual". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jean Piaget is the 3rd most popular psychologist, the 7th most popular biography from Switzerland and the 2nd most popular Swiss Psychologist.

Jean Piaget was a Swiss psychologist who studied the cognitive development of children. He is most famous for his theory of cognitive development, which states that children develop in four stages: sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Jean Piaget ranks 3 out of 235. Before him are Sigmund Freud, and Carl Jung. After him are Erich Fromm, Alfred Adler, Abraham Maslow, Wilhelm Wundt, Lev Vygotsky, Jacques Lacan, Viktor Frankl, Erik Erikson, and John Dewey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Jean Piaget ranks 3. Before him are F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Wallis Simpson. After him are Georgy Zhukov, Lev Vygotsky, André Breton, Imre Nagy, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Tristan Tzara, Roman Jakobson, Antonin Artaud, and Gerty Cori. Among people deceased in 1980, Jean Piaget ranks 5. Before him are Jean-Paul Sartre, Josip Broz Tito, Karl Dönitz, and John Lennon. After him are Alfred Hitchcock, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Erich Fromm, Roland Barthes, Steve McQueen, Bon Scott, and Oskar Kokoschka.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Jean Piaget ranks 7 out of 1,015. Before him are Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712), Leonhard Euler (1707), Le Corbusier (1887), Carl Jung (1875), Paracelsus (1493), and Henry Dunant (1828). After him are Ferdinand de Saussure (1857), Jacob Bernoulli (1654), Huldrych Zwingli (1484), Sepp Blatter (1936), Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746), and Paul Klee (1879).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Switzerland

Among psychologists born in Switzerland, Jean Piaget ranks 2. Before him are Carl Jung (1875). After him are Hermann Rorschach (1884), Ludwig Binswanger (1881), Auguste Forel (1848), Édouard Claparède (1873), Edgar Schein (1928), Otto Binswanger (1852), and Théodore Flournoy (1854).

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