Dimitri Uznadze

Dimitri Uznadze (Georgian დიმიტრი უზნაძე; born December 2, 1886 in Sakara, Zestaponi district, Imereti, † October 9, 1950 in Tbilisi ) was a Georgian psychologist. He was a professor and co-founder of the Tbilisi State University and Georgian Academy of Sciences.

He came from a Georgian noble family. In 1904, he put on the Georgian school in Kutaisi, the Abitur. In 1909 he completed his studies at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Leipzig. In the same year he received his doctorate at the University of Halle- Wittenberg in Halle ( Saale) about the epistemology Vladimir S. Solovyov.

From 1910 to 1917 taught Uznadze world history at the high school in Kutaisi. In 1918 he was co-founder of the Tbilisi State University. From 1918 to 1950 he was a professor and dean of the Faculty of Psychology, University of Tbilisi. In 1941 he was co-founder of the Georgian Academy of Sciences and was until 1950 the first director of the later named after him, the Institute of Psychology.

Uznadze mainly dealt with philosophy, history of philosophy, psychology of language, education, theory and experimental pedagogy, formulated the theory of unconscious mental health settings. His scientific work he wrote in German and Russian. Largely because of his early contributions to the psychology of language and the setting or set- theory, he is considered the greatest Georgian representatives of Gestalt theory.

Works

• Demeter of Uznadze: The metaphysical belief Vladimir S. Solowiows with orientierendem overview of his theory of knowledge. Kaemmerer, Hall A.Ş. 1909
• Dmitry N. Uznadze: Henri Bergson. Tbilisi 1923
• D. Usnadze: An experimental contribution to the problem of the psychological foundations of naming. Psychological Research

1924, vol 5 (1-2 ), pp. 24-43.

• D. Usnadze: The Problem of Meaning acquisition. In: VIII th International Congress of Psychology. Held at Groningen from 6 to 11 September 1926. Proceedings and Papers. P. Noordhoff, Groningen, 1927, pp. 440-442.
• D. Usnadze: On the problem of ascertaining the meaning ( content and subject matter ). In: Archives for the entire Psychology, 1927, B. 58 (1-2 ), pp. 163-186.
• D. Usnadze: The term education, preschool, Journal of Applied Psychology 34 (Leipzig 1929), 138-212.
• Dmitri N. Uznadze: Eksperimental'nye Osnovy psichologii ustanovki. Izdat. Akademii Nauk Gruzinskoj SSR, Tbilisi 1961
• Dmitry N. Uznadze: The Psychology of Set. Consultants Bureau, New York 1966
• Dmitry N. Uznadze: Psichologiceskie issledovanija. Izd. Nauka, Moskva 1966
• Dmitri N. Uznadze: setting Psychology: Investigations of the Georgian school. Edited by Manfred Vorwerg, Volk und Wissen, Berlin 1976