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Max Wertheimer papers

Title
Max Wertheimer papers, 1885-1943, bulk (ca. 1926-1943).
Author
Wertheimer, Max, 1880-1943.
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Additional Authors
  • Arnheim, Rudolf.
  • Born, Max, 1882-1970.
  • Ehrenfels, Christian, Freiherr von, 1859-1932.
  • Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955.
  • Einstein, Elsa.
  • Gurwitsch, Aron.
  • Hornbostel, Erich Moritz von, 1877-1935.
  • Husserl, Edmund, 1859-1938.
  • Jung, C. G. (Carl Gustav), 1875-1961.
  • Koffka, Kurt, 1886-1941.
  • Köhler, Wolfgang, 1887-1967.
  • Lewin, Kurt, 1890-1947.
  • Mannheim, Karl, 1893-1947.
  • Marcuse, Herbert, 1898-1979.
  • Myers, Charles S.
  • Sedlmayr, Hans, 1896-
  • Spence, Kenneth Wartenbee, 1907-1967.
  • Wertheimer, Lise, 1928-
  • Wertheimer, Wilhelm.
Description
7.5 linear feet (11 boxes).
Summary
Collection consists of Max Wertheimer's professional and personal papers, as well as papers of his father, Wilhelm Wertheimer, and his colleague Erich Moritz von Hornbostel.
Subject
  • Wertheimer, Max, 1880-1943
  • New School for Social Research (New York, N.Y.) > Faculty
  • Ethnomusicology
  • Gestalt psychology
  • Learning, Psychology of
  • Psychology > Study and teaching
  • Psychology, Experimental
  • Social psychology
  • Sugar trade > Czech Republic > Bohemia
  • Germany > Intellectual life > 20th century
Genre/Form
Photographs.
Access (note)
  • Restricted access;
Source (note)
  • Hornbostel, Anni
Biography (note)
  • Max Wertheimer (1880-1943) was a German psychologist, philosopher and co-founder of Gestalt psychology.
Language (note)
  • Materials in German, English, Czech, French, and Russian; many manuscript notes in German Gabelsberger shorthand.
Processing Action (note)
  • Surveyed
  • Cataloging updated
Call Number
MssCol 3290
OCLC
NYPW89-A782
Author
Wertheimer, Max, 1880-1943.
Title
Max Wertheimer papers, 1885-1943, bulk (ca. 1926-1943).
Restricted Access
Restricted access; Manuscripts and Archives Division; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
Biography
Max Wertheimer (1880-1943) was a German psychologist, philosopher and co-founder of Gestalt psychology. From 1912 to 1918 at the university in Frankfurt, he formulated the Gestalt theory with Wolfgang Köhler and Kurt Koffka. In 1933 Wertheimer emigrated to the United States, where he assumed a professorship at the New School for Social Research in New York City. He was also a guest lecturer at Princeton and Columbia universities. He wrote a number of essays and articles, and from 1921 to 1935 edited and published the multilanguage journal Psychologische Forschung. His only book-length work, Productiuve Thinking, was published posthumously in 1945.
Language
Materials in German, English, Czech, French, and Russian; many manuscript notes in German Gabelsberger shorthand.
Finding Aids
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Occupation
Psychologists.
Added Author
Arnheim, Rudolf.
Born, Max, 1882-1970.
Ehrenfels, Christian, Freiherr von, 1859-1932.
Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955.
Einstein, Elsa.
Gurwitsch, Aron.
Hornbostel, Erich Moritz von, 1877-1935.
Husserl, Edmund, 1859-1938.
Jung, C. G. (Carl Gustav), 1875-1961.
Koffka, Kurt, 1886-1941.
Köhler, Wolfgang, 1887-1967.
Lewin, Kurt, 1890-1947.
Mannheim, Karl, 1893-1947.
Marcuse, Herbert, 1898-1979.
Myers, Charles S.
Sedlmayr, Hans, 1896-
Spence, Kenneth Wartenbee, 1907-1967.
Wertheimer, Lise, 1928-
Wertheimer, Wilhelm.
LCCN
ms 74000575
Research Call Number
MssCol 3290
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