Richard Meili | |
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| Born | February 28, 1900 Schaffhausen, Switzerland |
| Died | July 5, 1991 (aged 91) Gümligen near Bern, Switzerland |
| Known for | Book on diagnostics, successor of Piaget in Geneva |
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| Alma mater | University of Bern (Switzerland) |
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| Discipline | Gestalt psychology |
| Institutions | Jena, Berlin, Geneva, Winterthur, Bern |
| Main interests | Practical psychology, diagnostics, personality development and intelligencefactors |
Richard Meili (February 28, 1900 - July 5, 1991) was an internationally renowned scientist in practical psychology, diagnostics, personality development and intelligence.
Meili studied at the University of Jena, University of Bern and University of Berlin.[1] 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.[2]
From 1926 to 1941 he was an assistant at the Institute J.J. Rousseau of Geneva University. Under Edouard 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 the University of Bern. His main fields of interest were diagnostics, problem solving, personality development, remedial teaching and intelligence.
In 1953 he founded the Psychological Institute of Bern University where he lectured until his retirement in 1970.
