Carl Stumpf

Carl Stumpf
Carl Stumpf.
Born	21 April 1848 Wiesentheid, Germany
Died	25 December 1936(1936-12-25) (aged 88) Berlin, Germany
Education	University of Göttingen (Dr. phil., 1868; Dr. phil. hab., 1870)
Era	20th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	School of Brentano (early) Berlin School of experimental psychology Phenomenology
Theses	Verhältniß des Platonischen Gottes zur Idee des Guten (The Relation of the Platonic God to the Idea of the Good)[1] (summer 1868) Über die Grundsätze der Mathematik (On the Principles of Mathematics) (Oct. 1870)
Doctoral advisor	Hermann Lotze (doctoral and habilitation adv.)[2]
Other academic advisors	Franz Brentano
Doctoral students	Edmund Husserl Wolfgang Köhler Kurt Lewin
Main interests	Ontology Psychology
Notable ideas	Tone psychology (Tonpsychologie) State of affairs (Sachverhalt)[3] [4]

Carl Stumpf (German: [ʃtʊmpf]; 21 April 1848 – 25 December 1936) was a German philosopher, psychologist and musicologist. He is noted for founding the Berlin School of experimental psychology.

He studied with Franz Brentano at the University of Würzburg before receiving his doctorate at the University of Göttingen in 1868. He also tutored the modernist literature writer Robert Musil at the University of Berlin, and worked with Hermann Lotze, who is famous for his work in perception, at Göttingen. Stumpf is known for his work on the psychology of tones. He had an important influence on his students Wolfgang Köhler and Kurt Koffka who were instrumental in the founding of Gestalt psychology as well as Kurt Lewin, who was also a part of the Gestalt group and was key in the establishment of experimental social psychology in America.

Stumpf is considered one of the pioneers of comparative musicology and ethnomusicology, as documented in his study of the origins of human musical cognition The Origins of Music (1911). He held positions in the philosophy departments at the Universities of Göttingen, Würzburg, Prague, Munich and Halle, before obtaining a professorship at the University of Berlin.^[6]