Max Pulver

Max Pulver ( born December 6, 1889 in Bern, † June 13, 1952 in Zurich ) was a Swiss psychologist, graphologist, poet, dramatist and storyteller. Max Pulver became famous as a graphologist with his basic intelligence works in printed characters and symbolism of the manuscript. After early literary successes are powder his poetic activity in the 1930s in favor of the Graphology largely on.

Life

Max Pulver is born as the son of a pharmacist in Bern. After attending the grammar school he studied history, psychology and philosophy in Strasbourg, Leipzig and Freiburg ( Breisgau). Powder doctorate in 1911 with the work of Romantic irony and romantic comedy in Freiburg (Breisgau ).

1914-1924 lives powder in Munich. He makes the acquaintance of Rainer Maria Rilke, who promotes him. Another Munich acquaintance connects him with Walter Benjamin, who is interested in his work on the romance, to graphology and the work of Franz von Baader, has issued the powder. Success as a poet and playwright. First graphological activities, inter alia, as Gerichtsgraphologe.

1924 return to Switzerland. Lecturer of graphology and anthropology at the Psychology Seminar of the Institute for Applied Psychology. Powder runs in circles around Carl Gustav Jung. Powder died on 13 June 1952. Posthumously published in 1953 his work memories of a European time.

Works

  • Self-encounter ( poems ), K. Wolff, Leipzig 1916
  • Alexander the Great ( Drama ), K. Wolff, Leipzig 1917
  • Robert the Devil ( Drama ), K. Wolff, Leipzig 1917
  • Odil ( stories ), Huber, Frauenfeld 1917
  • Merlin ( verse text ), Insel-Verlag, Leipzig 1918
  • Christ on Olympus ( Drama ), Hans Sachs -Verlag, Munich 1918
  • Igernes debt ( Drama ), Insel-Verlag, Leipzig 1918
  • Driveway ( poems), Insel-Verlag, Leipzig 1919
  • Between games, Rascher, Zurich 1919
  • The big wheel ( Comedy ) Three masks Verlag, Munich 1921 ( premiere Zurich Schauspielhaus, 1926)
  • The white voice ( poems), Rhein- Verlag, Basel 1924
  • Small Gallery ( prose mood pictures ), Grethlein & Co. Verlag Seldwyla, Zurich 1925
  • Arab reading pieces ( prose mood pictures ), Grethlein & Co. Verlag Seldwyla, Zurich 1925
  • Himmelpfortgasse (novel ), Kurt Wolff, Munich 1927
  • Symbolism of the manuscript, Orell Füssli, Zurich 1931
  • Drive and crime in the manuscript, Orell Füssli, Zurich 1934
  • New poems, Orell Füssli, Zurich 1939
  • Know and understand people people, Orell Füssli, Zurich 1940
  • Self-reflection, Orell Füssli, Zurich 1940
  • Self-awareness, Orell Füssli, Zurich 1941
  • Tracing the men, Orell Füssli, Zurich 1942
  • Person, character, fate, Orell Füssli, Zurich 1944
  • Transition ( poems), Orell Füssli, Zurich 1946
  • Intelligence in printed characters, Orell Füssli, Zurich 1949
  • Memories of a European time. Encounters with Rilke, Kafka, Klee, and other Meyrink, Orell Füssli, Zurich 1953

Publishing activities

  • Franz von Baader writings. Selected and edited by Max Pulver.Insel, Leipzig 1921

Translations

  • Gautier, Théophile: Fortunio (French original: Fortunio ) Dreimasken Verlag, Munich 1922
  • Dumarchey, Pierre: The rider Elsa (French original: La cavalière Elsa), OC Law, Munich 1923
  • Emil Zola: The beast in man (French original: La Bête humaine ), K. Wolff, Munich 1927

Work

1950 founded the Swiss powder Graphology Society ( SGG ), or Société Suisse de Graphology ( SSG), which in particular is dedicated to scientific foundation and professional recognition of graphology. Powder was ground-breaking for the modern graphology. So he developed the space symbolism and the writing zone theory.

Powder takes in his work philosophy Ludwig Klages ' on it to develop its own personality or character that he trips graphological work on the side. His psychological and graphological writings are influenced by the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl.

Most recently powder can also be seen in the cinema. In Richard Dindo's film Who was Kafka? (2005) occurs powder, represented by Peter Kaghanovitch, as a witness on Kafka.

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