Théodule-Armand Ribot

Théodule Armand Ribot (also Théodule A. Ribot ) ( born December 18, 1839 in Guingamp, Cotes -d'Armor, † December 9, 1916 in Paris) was a French psychologist and philosopher.

He studied at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, worked since 1865 as a professor of philosophy at various Collèges. Since 1872, he devoted himself exclusively biological studies in Paris and founded in 1876 the Revue Philosophique, and in 1884 the Society for physiological psychology.

In 1885 he was appointed associate professor of psychology at the Sorbonne and in 1888 full professor of comparative and experimental psychology at the Collège de France.

Ribot has also made to the international network of psychology deserves - he was the organizer of the first International Congress of Psychology in 1889 and again in the fourth Congress 1900 From these meetings, the International Union of Psychological Science is developed, which today is the largest and dominant umbrella organization psychology. associations is.

Works

• La psychologle anglaise contemporaine (1870, 2nd edition 1875)
• L' hérédité. Étude psychologique (1873, revised edition 1882)
• La philosophie de Schopenhauer (1874 )
• La psychologie anglaise contemporaine (1879; German, Braunschweig 1881)
• Les maladies de la mémoire (1881; German, Hamburg 1882)
• Les maladies de la volonté (1882 )
• The memory and its disorders. Voss, Hamburg 1882 ( Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf )
• Les maladies de la personnalité (1885 )
• La psychologie de l'attention (1888 )

He also translated together with Espinas Herbert Spencer Principles of psychology into French (1874-1875, 2 vols ).