Richard Meili

Richard Meili ( born February 28, 1900 in Schaffhausen, † July 5, 1991 in Gümligen ) was an internationally leading psychologist in the field of personality psychology, psycho- diagnostics and developmental psychology.

Biography

Meili studied in Jena and Bern, most recently in Berlin with Wolfgang Köhler and Kurt Lewin ( Gestalt psychology ) and Hans Rupp ( Industrial Psychology ). Meili has academic and practical training always connected: Already during his studies he worked in a home for young people with psychopathic disorders. In 1925 the PhD thesis " Studies on the ordering of goods'.

1926-1941 he was assistant Chef de Travaux and most recently a lecturer in succession to Jean Piaget at the Institute JJ Rousseau and the University of Geneva. He habilitated there 's " Recherches sur les formes de l' intelligence" (examination of forms of intelligence ) at Édouard Claparède.

1942-1948 paused his academic career, he worked as the director of career guidance in Winterthur. These experiences have especially influenced his later psychodiagnostic research.

1949 appointed Richard Meili professor at the University of Bern, first as an associate professor, from 1954 as full professor at the newly created Department of Psychology and its Applications at the University of Bern. His main focus was there the Psychological Assessment, the psychology of thinking, character development, reintegration of disabled people, the structure of intelligence as well as longitudinal studies of personality. He founded in 1953 the Institute of Psychology of the University of Bern, where he worked until his retirement in 1970.

Six years after the establishment of the institute he established a vocational training for educational advisers in Switzerland and creates a course that can be completed with a diploma.

1937 first appeared his principal work, which was later regarded as a standard work for a long time and has been translated into many languages ​​, the "Introduction to psychological assessment ". He founded and also presided over the first Test Commission of Switzerland, which dealt with the quality of psychodiagnostic methods.

1943 Meili co-founder and later president for many years of the Swiss Society of Psychology and its applications and for many years editor of the Swiss Journal of Psychology. The Swiss like the German Society for Psychology appoint Richard Meili an honorary member. The Salzburg University awarded him an honorary doctorate.

Works

  • Introduction to psychological assessment ", since 1937 in several editions
  • Beginnings of character development, 1957
  • Analytical intelligence test, AIT, 1966
  • Fundamentals of individual personality differences, 1972
  • The structure of intelligence, 1981
  • Works by or about Richard Meili in the catalog that German national library

Swell

  • Institute brochure 2004 University of Bern (PDF file, 1.60 MB )
  • Praise for 80th birthday
  • Obituary for Richard Meili
  • 100 years history of psychology - DGPs (PDF file, 4.40 MB )
  • Psychologist
  • University teachers ( University of Bern )
  • Honorary Doctor of the University of Salzburg
  • Swiss
  • Born 1900
  • Died in 1991
  • Man
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