Frederik Jacobus Johannes Buytendijk

Frederik Jacobus Johannes Buytendijk [ bœjtəndɛjk ] ( born April 29, 1887 in Breda, † October 21, 1974 in Nijmegen ), sometimes also written as FJJ Buijtendijk; Dutch biologist, anthropologist, psychologist, physiologist and sports medicine, one of the founders of psychological anthropology, is also considered one of the ancestors of the cybernetic anthropology.

Work

The stations of the training, research and teaching Buytendijks were the universities of Amsterdam, Groningen, Utrecht, Naples, Cambridge and Berlin, Giessen, Bonn, Cologne and Basel. Important for his career was the contact with Hans Driesch, and especially Max Scheler and its students and the environment in which pulses of phenomenology combined with questions of philosophical anthropology, the Gestalt theory and theoretical biology and the behavioral sciences. With Helmuth Plessner he was a friend since 1918; some central for both thinking essays they wrote together (see below, literature). In the 1920s, he made friends also with Viktor von Weizsäcker and Victor- Emil von Gebsattel.

Buytendijk been since 1925 professor of physiology at the University of Groningen. He was heavily involved in sports medicine research, co-founder of the World Federation of Sports Medicine, president of the Congress of the 1st World Congress of Sports Medicine in 1928 and then president of AIMS.

During the occupation of the Netherlands he was wanted by the Gestapo and had to go into hiding. From 1946 until his retirement in 1957 he was professor of general psychology in Utrecht. Then he received an extraordinary professorship for theoretical and comparative psychology in Nijmegen and a visiting professor of comparative psychology at the University of Leuven.

In 1937 he left the Reformed Church in the Netherlands and turned to the Catholic Church. Until his death he was chairman of the Catholic Association for Spiritual public health.

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