Who was Max Wertheimer?
Q: Who was Max Wertheimer?
A: Max Wertheimer was a psychologist and one of the three founders of Gestalt psychology, along with Kurt Koffka and Wolfgang Köhler.
Q: Where did Wertheimer teach?
A: Wertheimer was a professor at the University of Frankfurt from 1929 to 1933.
Q: Why did Wertheimer leave Germany?
A: Wertheimer left Germany because he realized he must leave after Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of the Third Reich in 1933.
Q: Where did Wertheimer go after leaving Germany?
A: Wertheimer accepted an offer to teach at The New School in New York.
Q: What did Wertheimer investigate in New York?
A: In New York, Wertheimer continued to investigate problem-solving, or what he preferred to call “productive thinking".
Q: What was Wertheimer's only book about?
A: Wertheimer's only book was about solving problems by considering geometric diagrams, which represented and partly solved visually.
Q: When did Wertheimer die and where was he buried?
A: Wertheimer completed his book in late September 1943 and died three weeks later of a heart attack in New Rochelle, New York, where he was buried in Beechwood Cemetery.
