Interested in knowing about Wilhelm Wirth. I know that he was the successor of Wundt at Leipzig. Would like to know more about what he did for psychology.

-- Chris Bower (cbow79@hotmail.com), October 29, 2002

Answers

According to Zusne's Biographical Dictionary of Psychology (1984), Wirth was born in Bavaria in 1876 and died in 1952 "place unknown". His PhD was earned at Munich in 1897 under the supervision of Theodor Lipps. He held positions at Leipzig from 1898 until "1941(?)". I don't know hwy Zusne put a question mark after the latter date, but given that it was the middle of WWII, perhaps things records are no longer available. Zusne says he did experiments on illusions, color contrast, perception, and psychophysics, "looing for a fundamental principle of phenomenology." He wrote five books by 1920, and edited several journals.

-- Christopher Green (christo@yorku.ca), October 29, 2002.