Karl Duncker

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Karl Duncker

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Why Is Karl Duncker Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Karl Duncker was a German Gestalt psychologist. He attended Friedrich-Wilhelms-University from 1923 to 1923, and spent 1925–1926 at Clark University in Worcester, MA as a visiting professor, where he received a master's degree in arts degree. Until 1935 he was a student and assistant of the founders of Gestalt psychology in Berlin: Max Wertheimer, Wolfgang Köhler and Kurt Koffka. In 1935, exiled by the Nazis, he got an assistantship in Cambridge with Frederic Charles Bartlett and later immigrated to the US, where he was again an assistant of Wolfgang Köhler's at Swarthmore College. He committed suicide in 1940 at 37 years of age. He had had depression for some time and had received professional treatment.

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What Schools Are Affiliated With Karl Duncker?

Karl Duncker is affiliated with the following schools:

• Clark University