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The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Theodor Waitz (1821–1864)

Waitz, Theodor (vītz). A distinguished German psychologist and anthropologist; born at Gotha, March 17, 1821; died on May 21, 1864, at Marburg. His more notable works are: an edition of Aristotle’s ‘Organon’ (2 vols., 1844–46); ‘Principles of Psychology’ (1846); ‘Text-Book of Psychology’ (1849); ‘Anthropology of Savage Peoples’ (6 vols., 1859–72), his greatest work; ‘The North-American Indians’ (1865).