Richard Meili

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era = 21th-century Psychology
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name = Richard Meili
birth_date = birth date|1900|2|28 |birth_place = Schaffhausen, Switzerland
death_date = 1991|7|5
death_place = Gümligen near Berne, Switzerland
fields = psychology
school_tradition = Gestalt psychology
main_interests = practical psychology, diagnostics, personality development and intelligencefactors
known_for = Book on diagnostics, successor of Piaget in Geneva
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citizenship = Swiss
nationality = Swiss
workplaces = Jena, Berlin, Geneva, Winterthur, Berne
alma_mater = Berne U. (Switzerland)
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Richard Meili (* February 28 1900 in Schaffhausen, † July 5 1991 in Gümligen near Berne) was an internationally renowned scientist in practical psychology, diagnostics, personality development and intelligence.

Biography

Meili studied at the universities of Jena, Berne and Berlin [Dissertation 1926: "Experiments on arranging objects" ("Experimentelle Untersuchungen über das Ordnen von Gegenständen", Psychol. Forsch. 1926, 7, p.155 -193] .In Berlin he was a student of Wolfgang Köhler and Kurt Lewin, (both of them proponents of Gestalt psychology) and also of Hans Rupp, professor for applied psychology at the institute of psychology. [Details in German at: http://www.psychologie.hu-berlin.de/institut/geschichte/geschichte/koehler]

From 1926 to 1941 he was an assistant at the "Institute J.J. Rousseau of Geneva University". Under "E. Claparède" he qualified as a lecturer with his paper "Recherches sur les formes de l’intelligence" (research on forms of intelligence) and became the successor of Jean Piaget.

From 1942 to 1948 he was director of the "Institute of Vocational Counseling" in Winterthur, Switzerland.

In 1949 Meili was appointed as head of the new Psychology Department at Berne University. His main fields of interest were diagnostics, problem solving, personality development, remedial teaching and intelligence.

In 1953 he founded the "Psychological Institute of Berne University" where he lectured until his retirement in 1970.

Main Publications (In German)

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* Einführung in die psychologische Diagnostik (Introduction to Psychological Testing) 1937 (also in French)
* Analytischer Intelligenztest, AIT, (Analytical Test of Intelligence) 1966
* Die Struktur der Intelligenz, (The Structure of Intelligence)1981
* Anfänge der Charakterentwicklung, (Early Personality Development)1957
* Grundlagen der individuellen Persönlichkeitsunterschiede, (Basics of Personality Traits) 1972

Weblinks (in German)

[http://www.psy.unibe.ch/unibe/philhuman/psy/content/e1031/e1339/instbroschuere04_ger.pdf]

[http://www.ukp.psy.unibe.ch/langpapers/pap1980-89/1980_richard_meili_achtzig.htm ]

[http://www.ukp.psy.unibe.ch/langpapers/pap1990-93/1991_richard_meili_worte.htm ]

[http://psychologie.fernuni-hagen.de/dgps/Kalendertext.pdf ]

References