Karl Duncker (2 February 1903, in Leipzig – 23 February 1940) was a German Gestalt psychologist. He attended Friedrich-Wilhelms-University from 1923 to 1923, and spent 1925–1926 at Clark University in Worcester, MA as a visiting professor, where he received a master's degree in arts degree.[1]
Until 1935 he was a student and assistant of the founders of Gestalt psychology in Berlin: Max Wertheimer, Wolfgang Köhler and Kurt Koffka.
In 1935, exiled by the Nazis, he got an assistantship in Cambridge with Frederic Charles Bartlett and later immigrated to the US, where he was again an assistant of Wolfgang Köhler's at Swarthmore College. Duncker committed suicide in 1940 at 37 years of age. He suffered from depression for some time and had received professional treatment.
His younger brother Wolfgang Duncker (1909–1942), a communist in exile in Moscow, was arrested in 1938 during the Great Purges and died in the Gulag. Their parents were the well-known socialist and later communist politicians and educators Hermann and Käte Duncker.
^Schnall S. 2007. Life as the Problem: Karl Duncker's Context. In Thinking in Psychological Science: Ideas and Their Makers, editor: Jaan Valsiner. Transaction.
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psychologists to study problem solving were the Gestaltists in Germany, such as KarlDuncker in The Psychology of Productive Thinking (1935). Perhaps best known is...
psychology, a movement in psychology that emphasizes holistic processing. KarlDuncker defined functional fixedness as being a mental block against using an...
knowing that they will lead to a solution—or by trial and error.: 361 KarlDuncker, another Gestalt psychologist who studied problem solving,: 370 coined...
Berlin, Province of Brandenburg, as the eldest son of the publisher KarlDuncker. He studied at the universities of Bonn and Berlin till 1834, was then...
(secondary school) in the Berlin quarter of Neukölln. Wolfgang Duncker's elder brother, KarlDuncker, reacted against his parents' political passions and grew...
was interpreted as insightful thinking. Köhler's work was continued by KarlDuncker and Max Wertheimer. The Eureka effect was later also described by Pamela...
Berlin...." Birkhead, Tim R.; Schulze-Hagen, Karl; Palfner, Gotz (2003). "The Colour of Birds: Hans Duncker, Pioneer Bird Geneticist". Journal für Ornithologie...
Ewald, Christian Wilhelm Carl von (seit 1912), Neue Deutsche Biographie, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959 Ewald, Christian Wilhelm Carl lagis.hessen.de v...
(Ludwig Karl)", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 9, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 678–688 Wilhelm Scherer (1879), "Grimm, Wilhelm (Karl)"...
(in German), vol. 10, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 416–418; (full text online) Jakob Minor (1881), "Jerusalem, Karl Wilhelm", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie...
Wilhelm Duncker. His brothers included the publisher Alexander Duncker, the historian Maximilian Wolfgang Duncker and the Berlin mayor, Hermann Duncker [de]...
Bader 1959. Bader, Karl Siegfried (1959), "Eichhorn, Karl Friedrich", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 4, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 378–379; (full...
Campaigns in Russia. The character is loosely based on baron Hieronymus Karl Friedrich, Freiherr von Münchhausen. Born in Bodenwerder, Hanover, the real-life...
ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3. Karl Christian Bruhns (1879), "Harding, Karl Ludwig", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 10, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp...
citizens of other countries could also be awarded the order. 1953: Hermann Duncker, Otto Grotewohl, Luise Kähler, Hermann Matern, Wilhelm Pieck, Wilhelm Zaisser...
52 – via Wikisource. Eder, Karl (1961), "Ferdinand II.", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 5, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 83–85; (full text...
Braubach (1977), "Karl Kaspar von der Leyen", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 11, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 265–266 Karl Kaspar von der Leyen...
Illiger, Karl In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5, S. 138 f. Illiger, Johann Karl Wilhelm;...
when citing a botanical name. ADB:Gmelin, Karl Christian In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Band 9, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, S. 271 f. Flora...
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