PSYCHOLOGIST

Théodore Flournoy

1854 - 1920

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Théodore Flournoy (15 August 1854 – 5 November 1920) was a Swiss professor of psychology at the University of Geneva and author of books on parapsychology and spiritism. He studied a wide variety of subjects before he devoted his life to psychology. He did extensive observations on a participant to investigate psychical phenomena. He was the President of the Sixth International Congress of Psychology, the Chair of Experimental Psychology at the University of Geneva in 1891 and was the first professor of psychology in Europe to become a member of the Faculty of Sciences instead of the Faculty of Philosophy. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Théodore Flournoy is the 199th most popular psychologist (down from 195th in 2019), the 477th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 433rd in 2019) and the 9th most popular Swiss Psychologist.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Théodore Flournoy ranks 199 out of 235. Before him are Karl H. Pribram, Frederik van Eeden, John C. Lilly, Anne Treisman, C. George Boeree, and Michael Tomasello. After him are Louis Leon Thurstone, Judith Rich Harris, Jaak Panksepp, Robin Dunbar, Nancy Chodorow, and Endel Tulving.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1854, Théodore Flournoy ranks 94. Before him are Robert Borden, Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov, Charles Angrand, Georges Eekhoud, Ivan Horbachevsky, and Hans Carl Friedrich von Mangoldt. After him are Niels Neergaard, Napoleon Cybulski, Germán Riesco, Aristarkh Belopolsky, Adela Zamudio, and Ottmar Mergenthaler. Among people deceased in 1920, Théodore Flournoy ranks 96. Before him are Olive Thomas, John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, Ömer Seyfettin, Olive Schreiner, Teresa of the Andes, and Arturo Soria y Mata. After him are Zygmunt Gorazdowski, Theodor Philipsen, Luc-Olivier Merson, Gérard Leman, Edmund Reitter, and Dan Andersson.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Théodore Flournoy ranks 477 out of 1,015. Before him are Pierre Cérésole (1879), Robert Julius Trumpler (1886), Johannes Baumann (1874), Karl Ludwig von Haller (1768), Nicolas Fatio de Duillier (1664), and Élisabeth Baume-Schneider (1963). After him are Yvonne Rüegg (1938), Bernard Fellay (1958), Adolf Meyer (1866), Émil Goeldi (1859), Albert Gallatin (1761), and Johann Jakob Breitinger (1701).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Switzerland

Among psychologists born in Switzerland, Théodore Flournoy ranks 9. Before him are Hermann Rorschach (1884), Ludwig Binswanger (1881), Auguste Forel (1848), Édouard Claparède (1873), Edgar Schein (1928), and Otto Binswanger (1852).

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