Wilhelm Wirth

Wilhelm Wirth ( born July 26, 1876 in Wunsiedel, † July 13, 1952 in Amberg ) was an Upper Franconian psychologist. He is considered a pioneer of experimental psychology.

Life

Wirth was a son of school teacher Johann Christian Wirth and grew up in Bayreuth. He studied law in Munich from 1894. From the third semester, he moved on to the main subject of philosophy and came by the way mathematics and physics teachers at secondary schools. After visiting the III. International Congress of Psychology in Munich in 1896, which was oriented experimental psychology to Wirth specialized in this direction.

In 1897 he received his doctorate. After studying in Leipzig him Wilhelm Wundt offered an assistantship. Wirth habilitated in 1900 with the work of the Fechner - Helmholtz theorem on negative afterimages and its analogies. From 1902 to 1945 he edited the archive for the entire psychology, starting in 1926, the Psychological Abstracts ( with ). Along with other researchers, he founded in 1902 the Society for Experimental Psychology.

Services

1908 Wirth was appointed as a professor. During this period he created his major works, the consciousness phenomena and the methods of experimental psychology. His research goal was to win exactly measurable stimuli and clearly arbitrary concerted practices between experimenter and subject as a basis for a universally comparative situation of consciousness. In 1938 he defined: "The entire knowledge of quantitative regularities tangible psychological services to the outside world can be described as psycho-physics in the narrow sense. " From 1926, the accuracy of coordination between visual perception and subjective movement had emerged for Wirth.

In 1933 he signed the confession of professors at German universities and colleges to Adolf Hitler. In 1935, he started on behalf of the Armed Forces to develop apparatus for practice of targeting. In 1943, the seminar and the private apartment Wirths were totally destroyed in an air raid, Wirth turned 68- year application for retirement and moved with his family to Bavaria over. He is buried in Bayreuth.

Science fiction writer

William and his elder brother Johann Heinrich Wirth were science fiction writer. 1889 Henry was 16 and William 13 years old, she wrote the work from Saturn to the ring. The authors illustrated their stories by hand. The visions of the two advanced enthusiastic high school students of Romano Polis, inspired by New York capital of the terms niche empire with its bridges, skyscrapers and high-speed railways act like an anticipation of the 1920s, to drawings by Frank R. Paul or the film set of Fritz Lang's Metropolis. The images of astronomical phenomena are exactly in size, constellation and shadow contours. The brothers wanted to tap Wirth the beauty of celestial phenomena in Saturn's ring system.

2002 hosted the Fantastic Library of Wetzlar, the exhibition planet cities, in which the original images were first shown publicly. The work of the brothers was also honored in the exhibition architecture, as in the book in the Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Munich, from December 2006 to March 2007 and in the catalog it.

Awards

  • Member of the Psychological Society of the Sorbonne in Paris
  • Honorary Doctorate National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
  • Member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina, Halle ( since 1938)

Writings

  • The Fechner Helmholtz's theorem on negative afterimages and its analogies. Part 1: Philosophical Studies No. 16, 1900, pp. 465-567; Part 2: No. 17, 1901, pp. 311-430; Part 3: No. 18, 1903, pp. 563-686
  • On the theory of consciousness and its circumference measurement. Philosophical Studies 20, 1902, pp. 487-669
  • The Spiegeltachistoskop. Philosophical Studies 18, 1903, pp. 687-700
  • A new apparatus for memory tests with a jump in progressive exposure of resting face objects. Philosophical Studies 18, 1903, pp. 701-714
  • The experimental analysis of the phenomena of consciousness. Braunschweig 1908
  • Psychophysics: description of the methods of experimental psychology, in:. Tigerstedt R. ( eds.): Handbook of Physiological Methods, Third Volume, Second half: central nervous system, psychophysics, phonetics Leipzig: Hirzel 1912
  • Small Releases: A demonstration apparatus for complication attempts. Psychological Studies 8, 1913, pp. 474-483
  • About the increase in the inner sensation of touch. After attempts by J. Hermann edited (with Otto Klemm ). Psychological Studies 8, 1913, pp. 485-496
  • Our great teacher Wilhelm Wundt in indelible gratitude to memory (with two illustrations ). Archive for the whole of psychology 40, 1920, 1- XVI.
  • How I came to philosophy. A developmental study. Archive for the whole of psychology 80, 1931, 452-510.
  • Autobiographical contribution to " A History of Psychology in Autobiography ," in Carl Murchison (ed.), The International University Series in Psychology, Worcester 1936, pp. 283-327
  • The terms of the accuracy of psychological services. Lecture at the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Halle a S. on May 20, 1938 in: E. Abderhalden (ed.), Nova acta Leopoldina. NF Vol 6, No. 35, pp. 41-80.
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