Kurt Koffka

(1886–1941). Gestalt psychologist, born Max in Berlin. With Max Wertheimer and Wolfgang Köhler, Kurt Goldstein, and Hans Gruhle, he founded the journal Psychologische Forschung. This survived for 22 volumes, until 1938 and the rise of Hitler. Koffka spent much of his academic life after 1924 in America. His main works are The Growth of the Mind (1924), and many important papers on perception.

(Published 1987)

— Richard L. Gregory

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