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Karl Bühler was born in Germany in 1879. After receiving doctorates in medicine and philosophy, he went to the University of Würzburg to work with Oswald Külpe. Külpe was a former student of Wilhelm Wundt who had disagreed with his mentor over the appropriateness of experiments for studying thought. This was the area in which Bühler worked (Bühler 1907). It was the publication of Bühler’s work that led to Wundt’s famous attack on the methods of the Würzburg School (Wundt 1907). Bühler was not intimidated by the eminence of his critic and vigorously defended his work (Bühler 1908).
Bühler and Külpe must have formed a close bond since they moved together to the University of Bonn in 1909 and to the University of Munich in 1913. Upon the outbreak of the First World War, Bühler joined the German army and worked as a medical doctor on the western front. He was called back to Munich to take temporary charge of the psychology institute after the unexpected death...
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Brock, A.C. (2012). Bühler, Karl. In: Rieber, R.W. (eds) Encyclopedia of the History of Psychological Theories. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0463-8_207
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