Karl Bühler

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Karl Bühler
Spouse
Charlotte Bühler (née Malachowski)
(m. 1916⁠–⁠1963)
(his death)
Scientific career
FieldsPsychology
Academic advisorsOswald Külpe
Doctoral studentsKarl Popper

Karl Ludwig Bühler (27 May 1879 – 24 October 1963) was a

Würzburg School of psychology. In linguistics he is known for his organon model of communication and his treatment of deixis
as a linguistic phenomenon.

He was the dissertation advisor of Karl Popper.[1]

Early life and education

Bühler was born in Meckesheim, Baden. In 1899 he started medical school at the University of Freiburg, where he received his doctorate in 1903. He continued working as an assistant, and started taking a second degree in psychology graduating in 1904. In 1906 he worked as an assistant professor at the University of Freiburg with von Kries, and as an assistant to Oswald Külpe at the University of Würzburg.[citation needed]

Career

In 1907 Bühler completed his

Würzburg School of psychology and sparked heated controversy with Wilhelm Wundt. In 1909 Bühler moved to the University of Bonn
, becoming an assistant to Oswald Külpe.

From 1913 to 1918 Bühler worked as an associate professor in

]

In 1922, he became Professor of Psychology at the

child psychology. He also worked in the field of the philosophy of language as a follower of the school of Franz Brentano, Alexius Meinong, Josef Klemens Kreibig and Alois Höfler.[2]
Bühler's wife, Charlotte Bühler, followed him and received a professorship in Vienna. Both taught at the University of Vienna until their common emigration.[citation needed]

On 23 March 1938, Bühler was briefly detained by the

Nazis, which caused him to flee to London in 1940, then to Oslo. Finally he emigrated to the United States, where he worked from 1940 to 1945 as a professor in Minnesota and from 1945 to 1955 as a professor of psychiatry at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.[citation needed
]

In 1959 Karl Bühler was honored with the Wilhelm Wundt Medal of the German Society of Psychology.

Personal life

During the war on April 4, 1916, he married Charlotte Malachowski, a student of Edmund Husserl. Their daughter Ingeborg was born in 1917, and their son Rolf in 1919.[3] He died in Los Angeles.[citation needed]

Work

  • Bühler, Karl (1934). Sprachtheorie. Oxford, England: Fischer.
  • Bühler, Karl (1934/1990). The Theory of Language: The Representational Function of Language (Sprachtheorie), p. 35. Translated by Donald Fraser Goodwin. Amsterdam: John Benjamin's Publishing Company. ISSN 0168-2555.

Notes

  1. ^ Thomas Sturm: "Bühler and Popper: Kantian therapies for the crisis in psychology," in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 43 (2012), pp. 462–472.
  2. ^
    OCLC 888144508
    .
  3. ^ "Charlotte Bühler". www.charlotte-buehler-institut.at Charlotte Bühler Institut. Retrieved 2022-01-29.

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