Walter Blumenfeld
Walter Blumenfeld · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Psychologist who pioneered applied and experimental psychology in Peru
1882, Neuruppin, Germany — 1967, Lima, Peru
Germany · Peru
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Walter Blumenfeld was a German psychologist, widely regarded as the founder of scientific psychology in Peru, who introduced experimental and applied methods there and invented the 'Blumenfeld alleys' apparatus for studying size-and-distance perception. He was Jewish; forced from a professorship in Dresden after leaving Nazi Germany in 1936, he built a distinguished career at the University of San Marcos in Lima.
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Psychologist who pioneered applied and experimental psychology in Peru
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
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