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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Hugo Münsterberg (1863–1916)

Münsterberg, Hugo. A German psychologist; born in Danzig, East Prussia, June 1, 1863; died in Cambridge, MA, Dec. 16, 1916. For twenty-four years professor of psychology at Harvard University, he was the author of many works applying experimental psychology to everyday life. He regarded himself as the interpreter of German ideals to America and of America to Germany. He wrote: ‘Psychology and Life’ (1899); ‘American Traits’ (1901); ‘Science and Idealism’ (1905); ‘Die Amerikaner’ (1903); ‘On the Witness Stand’ (1907); ‘Psychotherapy’ (1909); ‘The Eternal Values’ (1909); ‘American Problems’ (1910); ‘Psychology and Industrial Efficiency’ (1912); ‘The Photoplay’ (1916).