Vittorio Benussi was an Austrian-Italian psychologist born on 17 January 1878 in Trieste. Antonelli (2018) describes him as an unknown but important figure who lived a "rich, but tragic life,".[2] At the age of 18, Benussi moved to Italy where he earned money by working at the library in the Graz School of Gestalt theory. Soon after, Benussi became an assistant in Alexius Meinong’s laboratory and decided to conduct his own psychological research.