David Katz
David Katz · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Gestalt psychologist known for research on color and touch perception
1884, Kassel, Germany — 1953, Stockholm, Sweden
Germany · United Kingdom · Sweden
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Katz was a psychologist in the Gestalt tradition, known for foundational studies on the perception of color ('Die Erscheinungsweisen der Farben', 1911) and of touch, and later a professor at the University of Stockholm. Dismissed from his German chair by the Nazis in 1933 because he was Jewish, he emigrated to Britain and then Sweden. He came from a Jewish family in Kassel.
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Gestalt psychologist known for research on color and touch perception
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