HEINZ WERNER: 1890-1964
1965; Wiley; Volume: 36; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1111/j.1467-8624.1965.tb05301.x
ISSN1467-8624
Autores Tópico(s)Chaos, Complexity, and Education
ResumoHeinz Werner died in Worcester, Massachusetts, on May 14, 1964, at the age of 74. Though in rapidly failing health from an illness he knew to be fatal, he continued his scholarly activities to the very end. His death terminated what was in effect his third and perhaps his most active begun in 1947 when he accepted a call to Clark University. His first career, in Europe, which earned him an international reputation, ended abruptly in 1933 with his dismissal from the University of Hamburg upon the Nazi advent to power. In the time between, spent at a number of different institutions in the United States, Werner was productive as always, but the period of this was in many ways one of uncertainty, radical readjustment, and personal sorrow. Heinz Werner was born in Vienna, February 11, 1890, the second of four children of Leopold Werner, a manufacturer, and Emilie Klauber Werner. He grew up in Vienna and received his entire education there. While he was still a young boy attending elementary and high school some of the interests that were to preoccupy him throughout his long scientific career were already taking form. At the age of 7 he began to study the violin and showed a passionate interest in music. At 10 he began to immerse himself in popular books on evolution. These early activities foreshadowed Werner's two principal interests as a psychologist-aesthetic-expressive phenomena and developmental aspects of life processes. After completing the technical Gymnasium in 1908, Werner entered the Technische Hochschule with the intention of becoming an engineer. He quickly found that engineering was not to his taste, and at the end of a year transferred to the University of Vienna, planning to become a composer and music historian. In the broadened and stimulating intellectual environment
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