Max Wertheimer
Max Wertheimer · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Founder of Gestalt psychology
1880, Prague, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic) — 1943, New Rochelle, New York, USA
Prague · Frankfurt · Berlin · New York
Max Wertheimer is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Founder of Gestalt psychology
Wertheimer founded Gestalt psychology, demonstrating with his 1912 study of apparent motion (the phi phenomenon) that the mind perceives organized wholes rather than sums of isolated sensations. His principle that 'the whole is other than the sum of its parts' reshaped the psychology of perception, thought and problem-solving. Born into a Jewish family in Prague, he fled Nazi Germany in 1933 and continued his work in the United States.
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Founder of Gestalt psychology
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