Kurt Koffka

Psychologist, Author

1886 – 1941

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Who was Kurt Koffka?

Kurt Koffka was a German Psychologist. He was born and educated in Berlin. Along with Max Wertheimer and his close associates Wolfgang Kohler they established Gestalt psychology. Koffka’s interests were wide-ranging, and they included: Perception, hearing impairments in brain-damaged patients, Interpretation, Learning, and the extension of Gestalt theory to Developmental psychology.

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Born
Mar 18, 1886
Berlin
Religion
  • Judaism
Ethnicity
  • Germans
Nationality
  • Germany
Profession
Education
  • University of Edinburgh
  • Humboldt University of Berlin
Lived in
  • Berlin
Died
Nov 22, 1941
Northampton

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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