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{"value"=>"MssCol 3290", "type"=>"local_call"}
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{"value"=>"1885-1943", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1885/1943"}
{"value"=>"ca. 1926-1943", "type"=>"bulk", "normal"=>"1926/1943", "certainty"=>"approximate"}
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1885
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1943
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1885
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1885
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1943
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{"value"=>"Max Wertheimer papers"}
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"7.5 linear feet (11 boxes)"}], "supress_display"=>true}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.</span> <div class=\"address\"> <span class=\"addressline\">Stephen A. Schwarzman Building</span> <span class=\"addressline\">Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788</span></div>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Max Wertheimer (1880-1943) was a German psychologist, philosopher and co-founder of Gestalt psychology. From 1912 to 1918 at the university in Frankfurt, he formulated the Gestalt theory with Wolfgang Köhler and Kurt Koffka. In 1933 Wertheimer emigrated to the United States, where he assumed a professorship at the New School for Social Research in New York City. He was also a guest lecturer at Princeton and Columbia universities. He wrote a number of essays and articles, and from 1921 to 1935 edited and published the multilanguage journal Psychologische Forschung. His only book-length work, Productiuve Thinking, was published posthumously in 1945. Collection consists of Max Wertheimer's professional and personal papers, as well as papers of his father, Wilhelm Wertheimer, and his colleague Erich Moritz von Hornbostel. Max Wertheimer papers include incoming letters, lectures, original typescript and related materials for his book, notes on experimental and social psychology, writings by other scholars with Wertheimer's annotations, sketches, and photographs. Wilhelm Wertheimer papers consist of correspondence, newsclippings and printed matter concerning his lectures on the warehouse question and sugar industry in Bohemia. Von Hornbostel papers include his correspondence with musicologists and ethnologists, manuscripts and copies of abstracts for scholarly articles, musical notes, and book reviews."}
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{"value"=>"Materials in German, English, Czech, French, and Russian; many manuscript notes in German Gabelsberger shorthand"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Max Wertheimer papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library</p>"}
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{"value"=>"Wertheimer, Max, 1880-1943", "type"=>"persname"}
- arrangement
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{"value"=>"<p>Three series: I. Max Wertheimer; II. Wilhelm Wertheimer; III. Erich Moritz von Hornbostel</p>", "supress_display"=>true}
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7.5 linear feet (11 boxes)
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{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Max Wertheimer papers are arranged in thirteen series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/3290#c1086350'>I Letters received</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/3290#c1086351'>II Lectures</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/3290#c1086354'>III <span class=\"title\">Productive Thinking</span></a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/3290#c1086355'>IV Writings</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/3290#c1086360'>V Notebooks</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/3290#c1086361'>VI Notes</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/3290#c1086365'>VII Financial Papers</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/3290#c1086366'>VIII Assorted Papers</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/3290#c1086367'>IX Writings by Other Scholars</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/3290#c1086368'>X Wilhelm Wertheimer Papers</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/3290#c1086369'>XI Erich Moritz von Hornbostel Correspondence</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/3290#c1086370'>XII Erich Moritz von Hornbostel Writings</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/3290#c1086371'>XIII Erich Moritz von Hornbostel Musical Notes and Book Reviews</a></div>\n</li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
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1926
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1943