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Karl Bühler

1879 - 1963

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Karl Ludwig Bühler (German: [ˈbyːlɐ]; 27 May 1879 – 24 October 1963) was a German psychologist and linguist. In psychology he is known for his work in Gestalt psychology, and he was one of the founders of the Würzburg School of psychology. In linguistics he is known for his organon model of communication and his treatment of deixis as a linguistic phenomenon. He was the dissertation advisor of Karl Popper. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Karl Bühler is the 69th most popular psychologist (up from 74th in 2019), the 961st most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,023rd in 2019) and the 11th most popular German Psychologist.

Karl Bühler is most famous for his theory of speech acts, which was based on the idea that linguistic utterances can be classified into different types according to their function in communication.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Karl Bühler ranks 69 out of 235. Before him are Leon Festinger, William Stern, Raymond Moody, Philip Zimbardo, Bruno Bettelheim, and Alexander Luria. After him are Margaret Mahler, Karl Abraham, Otto Rank, Ernst Kretschmer, Mary Ainsworth, and Geert Hofstede.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Karl Bühler ranks 32. Before him are Francis Peyton Rous, Chen Duxiu, Shunroku Hata, Pál Teleki, Knud Rasmussen, and Henri Giraud. After him are Hans Lammers, E. M. Forster, Ali of Hejaz, Joseph Wirth, Hans Hahn, and Victor Sjöström. Among people deceased in 1963, Karl Bühler ranks 35. Before him are Jacques Hadamard, Richard Baer, Richard Barthelmess, Rajendra Prasad, Theodore von Kármán, and Kurt Zeitzler. After him are Oleg Penkovsky, Princess Alexandra of Hanover, Georg-Hans Reinhardt, Piero Manzoni, Michael Rockefeller, and Sabu Dastagir.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Karl Bühler ranks 961 out of 7,253. Before him are George, King of Saxony (1832), Johann Elert Bode (1747), August Wilhelm von Hofmann (1818), Maria Sophia of Neuburg (1666), Infanta Maria Josepha of Portugal (1857), and Gerhard von Scharnhorst (1755). After him are Princess Adelgunde of Bavaria (1823), Sigmund Jähn (1937), Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1792), Karl Abraham (1877), Georg Elser (1903), and Hans-Valentin Hube (1890).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Germany

Among psychologists born in Germany, Karl Bühler ranks 11. Before him are Karen Horney (1885), Hans Eysenck (1916), Ernst Heinrich Weber (1795), Kurt Koffka (1886), Fritz Perls (1893), and William Stern (1871). After him are Karl Abraham (1877), Ernst Kretschmer (1888), Rudolf Arnheim (1904), Adolf Bastian (1826), Marie-Louise von Franz (1915), and Charlotte Bühler (1893).

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