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Johannes Lindworsky
1875–1939
A Jesuit scholar who brought careful experiments to big questions about thought, will, and inner life, he helped shape early 20th-century psychology in German-speaking Europe. His work blends rigorous research with a strong interest in philosophy and human experience.
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Experimentelle Psychologie
by Johannes Lindworsky
About the author
Born in Frankfurt am Main in 1875, he entered the Society of Jesus in 1897 and later studied in Valkenburg, Bonn, and Munich. He was ordained a priest in 1909, earned his doctorate in 1915, and went on to teach psychology at Cologne before being appointed professor at the German University in Prague in 1928.
Lindworsky is remembered as a psychologist, Jesuit, and university teacher whose work engaged closely with the study of thinking, perception, and the will. He was associated with the tradition around Oswald Külpe and the Würzburg school, and he wrote books including Experimentelle Psychologie and studies of reasoning and volition.
In addition to teaching and writing, he helped build up a psychological laboratory and institute library in Cologne. After resigning in the summer of 1939 following serious illness, he died that same year in Essen.