Gertrud Meili-Dworetzki (1912 in Danzig-9 April 1995 in Bern) was a Swiss psychologist.
She attended lectures from Horkheimer and Adorno, Mannheim and Tillich for one year. After 1933 she studied psychology in Bern and Geneva. Meili-Dworetzki promoted and dealt with the connection between psychology and philosophy in numerous specialist articles and books. After her husband, Richard Meili, with whom she had two sons, had been appointed to the Chair of Psychology at the University of Bern in 1949, she became his co-worker. [1] She also translated from English and French. [2]
Josef Breuer was an Austrian physician who made discoveries in neurophysiology, and whose work during the 1880s with his patient Bertha Pappenheim, known as Anna O., developed the talking cure which was used as the basis of psychoanalysis as developed by his protégé Sigmund Freud.
Wilhelm Fliess was a German otolaryngologist who practised in Berlin. He developed the pseudoscientific theory of human biorhythms and a possible nasogenital connection that have not been accepted by modern scientists. He is today best remembered for his close friendship and theoretical collaboration with Sigmund Freud, a controversial chapter in the history of psychoanalysis.
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Peter Berglar was a German historian, professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Cologne, and was known for his many publications. His biography of Thomas More is considered one of the best.
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Rolf Rendtorff (1925–2014) was Professor of Old Testament at the University of Heidelberg from 1963 to 1990. He was one of the more significant German Old Testament scholars from the latter half of the twentieth-century and published extensively on various topics related to the Hebrew Bible. Rendtorff was especially notable for his contributions to the question of the origins of the Pentateuch, his adoption of a "canonical approach" to Old Testament theology, and his concerns over the relationship between Jews and Christians.
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