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Philipp Wegener was born on July 20, 1848, the son of a protestant minister in Neuhaldensleben near Magdeburg (Germany). He was educated in Magdeburg’s Gymnasium zum Kloster unserer Lieben Frauenwhere later on he was to teach for a decade (1876–1886). In 1876, Wegener took up his university studies in Marburg, from where he soon moved to Berlin. He studied Classical and German Philology, comparative linguistics, and philosophy. After his doctoral dissertation on the history of the Greek and Latin case systems (1872), Wegener entered upon a career of high-school teaching. His academic teachers had been Moritz Haupt and Ernst Curtius in the field of philology, Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg in philosophy, and the general linguist and psychologist Heyman Steinthal. Wegener worked as a high-school teacher in Treptow (Pommern), Zeitz, Magdeburg, and Neuhaldensleben before he was appointed headmaster of the Greifswald Gymnasium. There he remained for the rest...
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Knobloch, C. (2012). Wegener, Philipp. 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_277
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