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Hermann Ebbinghaus: Biography
On January 24, , Hermann Ebbinghaus was born to Carl and Julie Ebbinghaus in Barmen, Germany, where he grew up in the Lutheran faith. At 17, Ebbinghaus entered the University of Bonn to study history, philology, and philosophy. In , he temporarily stopped his studies to join the Prussian army when war broke out between France and Prussia. After the war in , Ebbinghaus continued his philosophical studies at the University of Bonn, earning a Ph.D. in
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Gustav Fechner's Elements of Psychophysics drew Hermann Ebbinghaus to psychology, which interested him because of its philosophical and scientific views. His independent studies and memory experiments began in , which led him
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Life Dates
Herman Ebbinghaus (Barmen, Germany, January 24, – Halle, Germany, February 26, ) was born to Lutheran merchants. He studied philosophy at the University of Bonn (and for a short time also at the universities of Berlin and Halle). He completed his dissertation on Eduard von Hartmann’s Philosophy of the Unconscious and received his doctorate in at the age of From to , Ebbinghaus studied and worked as a tutor at several universities in England and France. Then he lectured at the University of Berlin where he served as private lecturer until In , he cofounded and edited the Zeitschrift für Psychologie und Physiologie der Sinnesorgane. From to , he was professor at the University of Breslau but also taught at Halle. Ebbinghaus founded laboratories for psychological research at the Universities of Berlin and Breslau. He was the father of the eminent Neo-Kantian philosopher Julius Ebbinghaus.
Contribution(s) to the Field of Learning
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Hermann Ebbinghaus
German psychologist (–)
Hermann Ebbinghaus (24 January – 26 February ) was a German psychologist who pioneered the experimental study of memory. Ebbinghaus discovered the forgetting curve and the spacing effect. He was the first person to describe the learning curve. He was the father of the neo-Kantian philosopher Julius Ebbinghaus.
Early life
[edit]Ebbinghaus was born in Barmen, in the Rhine Province of the Kingdom of Prussia, as the son of a wealthy merchant, Carl Ebbinghaus. Little is known about his infancy except that he was brought up in the Lutheran faith and was a pupil at the town Gymnasium. At the age of 17 (), he began attending the University of Bonn, where he had planned to study history and philology. However, during his time there he developed an interest in philosophy. In , his studies were interrupted when he served with the Prussian Army in the Franco-Prussian War. Following this short stint in the military, Ebbinghaus finished his di