Heinz Werner (psychologist)

Heinz Werner ( born February 11, 1890 in Vienna, † May 14, 1964 in Worcester, Massachusetts ) was an Austrian- Jewish psychologist.

Career

Heinz Werner received his doctorate in Vienna in 1915. His thesis is entitled: On the psychology of aesthetic enjoyment, Vienna 1916 He worked as an assistant in Munich and since 1917 he started in Hamburg collaborating with William Stern. . Since the founding of the Psychological Institute of the University of Hamburg new to 1933 Heinz Werner was there the director of the Psychological Laboratory.

Due to the Nazi Act Restoration of the Professional of 7 April 1933 he was relieved of his duties as well as star and emigrated the same year in the U.S., where he initially from 1933 - 1936 at the University of Michigan worked. Further stations Heinz Werner were the Harvard University (1936 /37), the Wayne County Training School ( 1937-1943 ) and finally the Brooklyn College ( 1943-1947 ) in New York.

After the war, he became in 1947 a professor of psychology at Clark University, Worcester, MA. There, the former Institute of Developmental Psychology was soon renamed Heinz Werner Institute of Developmental Psychological Research.

Works

When Heinz Werner's main work is considered: Introduction to Developmental Psychology, 1926, Comparative Psychology of Mental Development, 1940 ( Table of Contents at acsu.buffalo.edu (English) ) The work was written in collaboration with William Stern, Ernst Cassirer, Johann Jakob von Uexküll. Martha Muchow and Gertrud Grunow. The 4th edition of 1959 attempts, as it says in the preface to preserve the interrupted tradition of biological and psychological German research before 1933.