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William Stern

1871 - 1938

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Louis William Stern (born Ludwig Wilhelm Stern; April 29, 1871 – March 27, 1938) was a German American psychologist and philosopher who originated personalistic psychology, which placed emphasis on the individual by examining measurable personality traits as well as the interaction of those traits within each person to create the self. Stern coined the term intelligence quotient (IQ) and invented the tone variator as a new way to study human perception of sound. Stern studied psychology and philosophy under Hermann Ebbinghaus at the Humboldt University of Berlin, and quickly moved on to teach at the University of Breslau. Later he was appointed to the position of professor at the University of Hamburg. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. William Stern is the 64th most popular psychologist (up from 76th in 2019), the 888th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,069th in 2019) and the 10th most popular German Psychologist.

William Stern is most famous for his work in the field of psychology, specifically in the study of intelligence. He created the term IQ, and was the first to measure intelligence in a standardized way.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, William Stern ranks 64 out of 235. Before him are Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Pierre Janet, Stanley Milgram, Alice Miller, Fritz Perls, and Leon Festinger. After him are Raymond Moody, Philip Zimbardo, Bruno Bettelheim, Alexander Luria, Karl Bühler, and Margaret Mahler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1871, William Stern ranks 25. Before him are Émile Borel, Georges Rouault, Maurice Garin, František Kupka, Giacomo Balla, and Stjepan Radić. After him are Grand Duke George Alexandrovich of Russia, Alexander von Zemlinsky, Cordell Hull, Leonid Andreyev, Lyonel Feininger, and Ernst Zermelo. Among people deceased in 1938, William Stern ranks 32. Before him are King Oliver, Lev Shestov, Bruno Taut, Vasily Blyukher, Hans Christian Gram, and Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne. After him are Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, Marianne von Werefkin, John Flanagan, Feodor Chaliapin, Otto Bauer, and Branislav Nušić.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, William Stern ranks 888 out of 7,253. Before him are Engelbert Humperdinck (1854), Birutė Galdikas (1946), Walther Wenck (1900), Alfred Hugenberg (1865), Fritz Perls (1893), and Johann Christoph Adelung (1732). After him are Kurt Zeitzler (1895), Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp (1636), Hans-Joachim Marseille (1919), Harald Quandt (1921), Markus Wolf (1923), and Götz von Berlichingen (1480).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Germany

Among psychologists born in Germany, William Stern ranks 10. Before him are Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850), Karen Horney (1885), Hans Eysenck (1916), Ernst Heinrich Weber (1795), Kurt Koffka (1886), and Fritz Perls (1893). After him are Karl Bühler (1879), Karl Abraham (1877), Ernst Kretschmer (1888), Rudolf Arnheim (1904), Adolf Bastian (1826), and Marie-Louise von Franz (1915).

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