What is Kurt Koffka?
{{Infobox person |name = Kurt Koffka |birth_date = 18 March 1886 |birth_place = [[Berlin]], [[German Empire]] |death_date = 22 November 1941 |death_place = [[Northampton, Massachusetts]] |nationality = German |known_for = Gestalt psychology }} '''Kurt Koffka''' (18 March 1886 – 22 November 1941) was a [[Germans|German]] [[psychologist]]. He was one of the founders of [[Gestalt psychology]]. Koffka was born and educated in [[Berlin]] and earned his [[PhD]] there in 1909 as a student of [[Carl Stumpf]]. Koffka also spent one year at the [[University of Edinburgh]] in [[Scotland]] where learnt [[English language|English]], a skill that later served him well. Koffka worked at the [[University of Frankfurt]] when [[Max Wertheimer]] arrived in 1910 and invited Koffka to take part as a subject in his research on the [[phi phenomenon]]. Koffka left [[Frankfurt]] in 1912 to take a position at the [[University of Giessen]], where he worked for over eleven years. Koffka then travelled to the [[United States]], where he was a visiting professor at [[Cornell University]] from 1924 to 1925, and two years later at [[University of Wisconsin–Madison]]. Eventually, in 1927, he accepted a position at [[Smith College]] in [[Northampton, Massachusetts]], where he remained until his death in 1941. == Major works == *1921. ''Die Grundlagen der psychischen Entwicklung''. Osterwieck am Harz, Zickfeldt. ('The growth of the mind'). *1922. Perception: an introduction to the Gestalt theory. ''Psych. Bulletin'' '''19''', 531–585. *1924. ''Growth of the mind: an introduction to child-psychology'', transl. R.M. Ogden. 2nd revised edition 1928. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner. and New York: Harcourt, Brace. *1935. ''Principles of gestalt psychology''. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. Advanced textbook, 720 pages. ==Other websites== * [http://www.gestalttheory.net/ Gestalt psychology website of the international Society for Gestalt Theory and its Applications - GTA] * Boeree, C. George 2000. [http://www.ship.