Kurt Koffka

Bio

* 1886, Berlin, Germany

† 1941, Northampton, Massachusetts, USA

Career

1903 studies of philosophy in Berlin and Edinburgh; 1905 switched to psychology; 1908 received a doctorate in Berlin under Carl Stumpf (Experimental-Untersuchungen zur Lehre vom Rhythmus); 1908/09 assistant to Johannes von Kries in Freiburg; 1909/10 assistant to Oswald Külpe and Karl Marbe in Würzburg; 1910/11 assistant with Wolfgang Köhler to Friedrich Schumann in Frankfurt, where he met Max Wertheimer; 1911 habilitated in Giessen with the investigation Zur Analyse der Vorstellungen und ihrer Gesetze; determined brain injuries during First World War; 1918 associate professor at the University of Giessen; 1924/25 visiting professor at the Cornell University, New York; 1926/27 teaching at the University of Wisconsin; 1927 ended his function at the University of Giessen and took over a professorship at the Smith College in Northampton.

Degrees

Ph.D. in psychology, University of Berlin, 1908

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