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Karl B�hler
Karl B�hler (1879�1963) 1927 � Georg Fayer (1891�1950) OeNB 12993104.jpg
Born 27 May 1879
Meckesheim, Grand Duchy of Baden, German Empire
Died 24 October 1963 (aged 84)
Los Angeles, California
Residence Germany, Austria, United States
Nationality German
Alma mater University of Freiburg
Technical University of Dresden
University of Vienna
University of Southern California
Known for W�rzburg School
Gestalt psychology
Organon model
Deixis
Spouse(s) Charlotte B�hler (n�e Malachowski) (m. 1916�1963) (his death)
Scientific career
Fields Psychology
Academic advisors Oswald K�lpe
Doctoral students Karl Popper
Influenced Prague linguistic circle[1]
J�rgen Habermas[2]
Karl Popper
Karl Ludwig B�hler (27 May 1879 � 24 October 1963) was a German psychologist and
linguist. In psychology he is known for his work in gestalt psychology, and he was
one of the founders of the W�rzburg 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.[3]

Biography
B�hler was born in Meckesheim. 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 K�lpe at the University of W�rzburg.

He completed his Habilitation thesis at W�rzburg in 1907, with the title Tatsachen
und Probleme zu einer Psychologie der Denkvorg�nge ("Facts and problems of the
psychology of thought processes"). This text became foundational for the W�rzburg
School of psychology and sparked heated controversy with Wilhelm Wundt. In 1909
B�hler moved to the University of Bonn, becoming an assistant to Oswald K�lpe.

From 1913 to 1918 B�hler worked as an associate professor in Munich. In World War I
he performed military service as a doctor. During the war he married Charlotte
Malachowski, a student of Edmund Husserl. In 1918 he was made a full professor of
philosophy and education at the Technical University of Dresden.
In 1922 he became Professor of Psychology at the University of Vienna and the head
of the Psychology Department. He participated in the founding of the Psychological
Institute of Vienna as part of the city's efforts to reorganize the school system
on the basis of new scientific findings about child psychology. His wife, Charlotte
B�hler, followed him and received a professorship in Vienna. Both taught at the
University of Vienna until their common emigration.

On 23 March 1938, B�hler 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.

In 1959 Karl B�hler was honored with the Wilhelm-Wundt-Medal of the German Society
of Psychology. He died in Los Angeles.

Notes
V. Ambros, "Prague Linguistic Circle in English: Semantic Shifts in Selected Texts
and Their Consequences", Theatralia, 2014, 17(2): 148�161, esp. 155.
Christopher Latiolais, Habermas' Concept of the Lifeworld, University of
California, San Diego, 1992, p. 216.
Thomas Sturm: "B�hler 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.
References
Short biography
Bugental, J F; Wegrocki, H J; Murphy, G; Thomae, H; Allport, GW; Ekstein, R;
Garvin, PL (1966), "Symposium on Karl B�hler's contributions to psychology.", The
Journal of general psychology (published Oct 1966), 75 (2d Half), pp. 181�219,
doi:10.1080/00221309.1966.9710366, PMID 5339566
Bolger, H (1964), "KARL BUHLER: 1879-1963.", The American Journal of Psychology
(published Dec 1964), 77, pp. 674�8, PMID 14251983
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