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Georg Theodor drawing ( born November 12, 1862 in Frankfurt am Main, † December 29, 1950 in Wiesbaden ) was a German neurologist, psychiatrist, psychologist and philosopher.

Life

On November 12, 1862 Georg Theodor pulling in Frankfurt am Main was born as the first of three children. His father Edward was pulling as editor of a literary entertainment supplement at the Frankfurt Mail newspaper. However, this lost his job, as in 1866 after the Austro-Prussian War, this newspaper was closed for political reasons.

The family had to live as a private tutor of his father Edward meager income. Moreover, inclusion of young foreigners in his house rendered a little extra income. As a student of the Model School and later the Municipal Gymnasium, employed Theodor dragging with the works of Arthur Schopenhauer and Immanuel Kant. Already 18? he decided to become a philosopher. However, the funds were just for taking a philosophy course. He got a scholarship instead of the Reformed church in Frankfurt due to its good performance.

However, there was only this scholarship to study medicine. So went Theodor Pull initially for four semesters to Würzburg and after passing Physikum to Berlin to study medicine. During his medical studies he occupied himself with the works of David Hume, Spinoza, Plato, and George Berkeley.

The psychiatry as a specialty he chose well in order to be officially philosophically can. However, he was also interested in empirical medicine. He studied intensively in Berlin brain anatomy and brain physiology and still heard mathematics and theoretical physics.

End of 1884, his father died and the following year his mother. Had to move quickly to act professionally to make ends meet.

As early as the ninth semester, he made ​​his thesis and appeared as Voluntärarzt his first job in a private asylum in Görlitz. Soon Otto Binswanger was aware of him and asked him in 1886 to come to him to Jena as a senior physician and to habilitate with him. In Jena, it was Theodore Pull, which the consigned on January 18, 1889 Friedrich Nietzsche treated primarily as a senior physician.

In 1900 he was appointed as professor of psychiatry to Utrecht. There he addressed a private psychological laboratory.

From 1903 he was professor at the University of Halle, and from 1904 to 1912 at the University of Berlin as professor in Berlin at the newly built Psychiatry and Psychiatric Clinic of the Charité. His successor at the Charité was Karl Bonhoeffer.

At this part not related clinic he had in addition to his medical practice - he already had a very large number of private patients - a lot of organizational work to do besides teaching duties, facilities of laboratories and more, so that he had the feeling " in the to be permanently locked psychiatry, "said August Autumn. Even after the remarks Karl Leonhard Pull had a hard time in his time at the Berlin Charité.

So matured in him the determination to "completely in solitude and in the philosophy withdraw ". He bought a small villa in Wiesbaden in 1912 and moved with his wife and three children there.

After several years as a private scholar in Wiesbaden he took in 1917 to a call to a Philosophical Institute in Halle, where he read history of philosophy and other philosophical disciplines in addition to psychology. After his retirement in 1930 he and his family moved back to Wiesbaden, where he died in 1950 shortly after his 89th birthday. In the era of National Socialism pulling was a member of sacrificial ring of the SA and the Nazi Party.

His son Vult Pull employed as a psychiatrist also with developmental psychology and psychopathology of the infant.

Work

In 1898 published his drawing Psychophysiological epistemology and 1915 his psychological masterpiece The foundations of psychology.

Even the introduction to his psycho- physiological theory of knowledge is programmatic for its strictly rationalist attitude: " A που στω " we'll never see: " We hunt on our ideas and feelings then. Neither we nor may they fall into the reins out of the car in which we fly forward, jump out to play the audience. Every thought about our ideas is a new idea. and elsewhere: I can see the thoughts that I will develop, no value, not even award a relationship which absolutely zukäme them. They are ideas among ideas, no more and no less than the ideas themselves, which form its subject. "

In both works, a main concern is drawing to substantiate the new psychology by introducing the concept of Gignomene. Pull developed an exceedingly complex thought structure on epistemology. One of the few philosophers who has to deal with his work August Autumn.

Works

• Sphygmographische studies on the mentally ill, Jena, 1887.
• Psychophysiological theory of knowledge; Jena, 1898.
• Guide of physiological psychology; Jena, 1891; 12th edition, 1924.
• The central nervous system of cetaceans; 1892 ..
• Psychiatry for physicians and study Rende; Publisher F. Wreden Berlin 1894.
• The central nervous system of the monotremes and Marsupialier; 1897.
• Anatomy of the central nervous system, in: Handbook of Human Anatomy; Jena 1899.
• About the general relations between brain and soul life; Leipzig 1902.
• The principles and methods of giftedness, particularly the intelligence test; Jena 1908; 5th edition 1923.
• The recognition of the psychopathic constitutions and public assistance to the psychopathic assessed children; Jena 1912; 3rd edition, 1916.
• Medical needs for remedial training; Langensalza 1913.
• At the present state of the theory of knowledge: at the same time attempt at a classification of theories of knowledge; Publisher J. F. Bergmann Wiesbaden 1914 ..
• The fundamentals of psychology; Leipzig and Berlin, 1915.
• The mental disorders of childhood, including mental retardation and the psychopathic constitutions 2 parts; Berlin, 1915-1917; 2nd edition, 1926.
• About the nature of Beanlagung and their methodological research; Langensalza 1918; 4th Edition, 1929.
• Textbook of logic on positivist basis with consideration of the history of logic, A. Marcus & E. Weber Publisher Bonn 1920.
• The relations of the phenomena of life to consciousness; In 1921.
• Basis of natural philosophy; In 1922.
• Lectures on aesthetics; 2 volumes, 1923 and 1925.
• The mental life of young people; Langensalza 1923; 4th Edition, 1931.
• The Basics of characterology; Langensalza 1930.