Heinrich Klüver

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Heinrich Kluver (May 25, 1897 - February 8, 1979), born in Holstein, Germany. After having served in the German army during World War I, between 1920 and 1923, he studied at both the University of Hamburg and the University of Berlin. In 1923, he arrived in the United States to attend Stanford University. He was a notable figure in the fields of animal behavior and Gestalt psychology, largely credited with introducing the latter to the United States in the early twentieth century. He received his Ph.D. in physiological psychology from Stanford University. In 1927 he married Cessa Feyerabend and settled in the United States permanently, becoming a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1934. He collaborated most often and fruitfully with Paul Bucy and made various contributions to neuroanatomy throughout his career. His expositions of and experiments with mescaline were also groundbreaking at the time.

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• An in-depth biography by Karl Pribram and Frederick Nahm: http://fermat.nap.edu/html/bio73h/kluver.html
• Guide to the Heinrich Kluver Papers: http://ead.lib.uchicago.edu/view.xqy?id=ICU.SPCL.KLUVER&c=k