Wolfgang Köhler

Wolfgang Köhler (German: [ˈkøːlɐ]; 21 January 1887 – 11 June 1967) was a German <a href="/facts/Psychologist/J4l4QdX2">psychologist</a> and <a href="/facts/Phenomenology_(psychology)/Rse4u0LN">phenomenologist</a> who, like <a href="/facts/Max_Wertheimer/5qJmzBnf">Max Wertheimer</a> and <a href="/facts/Kurt_Koffka/yeu8JvF9">Kurt Koffka</a>, contributed to the creation of <a href="/facts/Gestalt_psychology/mCFLuhYT">Gestalt psychology</a>.
During the Nazi regime in <a href="/facts/Germany/paluuWBX">Germany</a>, he protested against the dismissal of Jewish professors from universities, as well as the requirement that professors give a Nazi salute at the beginning of their classes. In 1935 he left the country for the <a href="/facts/United_States/P0sCdLe5">United States</a>, where <a href="/facts/Swarthmore_College/QIbYLFx2">Swarthmore College</a> in <a href="/facts/Pennsylvania/HGqC5bBm">Pennsylvania</a> offered him a professorship. He taught with its faculty for 20 years, and did continuing research. A <a href="/facts/Review_of_General_Psychology/ElXoWcoJ">Review of General Psychology</a> survey, published in 2002, ranked Köhler as the 50th most cited psychologist of the 20th century.

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Wolfgang Köhler