PSYCHOLOGIST

Kurt Koffka

1886 - 1941

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Kurt Koffka (German: [ˈkɔfka]; March 12, 1886 – November 22, 1941) was a German psychologist and professor. He was born and educated in Berlin, Germany; he died in Northampton, Massachusetts, from coronary thrombosis. He was influenced by his maternal uncle, a biologist, to pursue science. He had many interests including visual perception, brain damage, sound localization, developmental psychology, and experimental psychology. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kurt Koffka is the 51st most popular psychologist (up from 52nd in 2019), the 779th most popular biography from Germany (down from 701st in 2019) and the 8th most popular German Psychologist.

Kurt Koffka was a German psychologist and Gestalt theorist. He is most famous for his work on Gestalt psychology, which he co-founded with Max Wertheimer and Wolfgang Köhler. Gestalt psychology is the study of how the mind organizes and perceives visual, auditory, and other sensory stimuli.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Kurt Koffka ranks 51 out of 235. Before him are Wolfgang Köhler, Alfred Kinsey, Max Wertheimer, Milton H. Erickson, Ernst Heinrich Weber, and Elton Mayo. After him are Solomon Asch, Sándor Ferenczi, Martin Seligman, Antonio Damasio, Roger Wolcott Sperry, and Raymond Cattell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Kurt Koffka ranks 34. Before him are Zhu De, Karl Polanyi, Gerda Wegener, Hugo Ball, Michael Curtiz, and Sergo Ordzhonikidze. After him are Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, George Mallory, Aron Nimzowitsch, Marcel Dupré, Henri Coandă, and Dong Biwu. Among people deceased in 1941, Kurt Koffka ranks 31. Before him are Frederick Banting, Prajadhipok, Edwin S. Porter, Ernst Udet, Werner Sombart, and Werner Mölders. After him are Henri Lebesgue, Ludwig Quidde, Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli, Pál Teleki, Sherwood Anderson, and Günther Lütjens.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Kurt Koffka ranks 779 out of 7,253. Before him are Johann Ambrosius Bach (1645), Nicolaus Zinzendorf (1700), Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1784), Thomas Anders (1963), Johann II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (1570), and Amalie Auguste of Bavaria (1801). After him are Johann Martin Schleyer (1831), Hermann Weyl (1885), Achim von Arnim (1781), Artur Axmann (1913), Paul Reuter (1816), and Hinrich Lichtenstein (1780).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Germany

Among psychologists born in Germany, Kurt Koffka ranks 8. Before him are Wilhelm Wundt (1832), Erik Erikson (1902), Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850), Karen Horney (1885), Hans Eysenck (1916), and Ernst Heinrich Weber (1795). After him are Fritz Perls (1893), William Stern (1871), Karl Bühler (1879), Karl Abraham (1877), Ernst Kretschmer (1888), and Rudolf Arnheim (1904).

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