Berlin School of experimental psychology

The Berlin School of experimental psychology was headed by Carl Stumpf, a student of Franz Brentano and Rudolf Hermann Lotze. As a professor at the University of Berlin Carl Stumpf founded in 1893, the Berlin Institute for Experimental Psychology.

Stump most famous students are Max Wertheimer, Kurt Koffka, Wolfgang Köhler and Kurt Lewin.

After Wolfgang Köhler in 1922 assumed the leadership of the Institute, the Berlin School was de facto a school of Gestalt psychology.