Wolfgang Kоhler (22 January
1887 – 11 June 1967) was a German psychologist and
phenomenologist
who, like Max Wertheimer,
and Kurt Koffka, contributed to the
creation of Gestalt psychology.
During the Nazi regime in
Germany, he protested against the dismissal of Jewish professors from
universities, as well as the requirement that professors give a Nazi salute at
the beginning of their classes. In 1935 he left the country for the United
States, where Swarthmore College in
Pennsylvania offered him a professorship. He taught with its faculty for 20
years, and did continuing research.
