Professor William Stern, Professor of Philosophy at Hamburg University and one of the leading men in child psychology, attains his 60th. birthday to-morrow. His standard work, “Psychology of Early Childhood”, has run through numerous editions, and is considered as indispensable in the study of child psychology.
Professor Stern’s philosophic system is laid down in a three-volume work entitled “Personality and Matter”. He has published a large number of works on child and vocational psychology, including “Differential Psychology and its Methedic Basis”, “Intelligence of Children and Youths”, “Method in Intelligence Tests”, etc. He founded and directs the “Zeitschrift fuer angewandete psychologie”, the “Journal of Pedagogic Psychology” and the “Journal of Vocational Psychology and Economics”.
Professor William Stern, who was born in Berlin, is a grandson of Sigismund Stern, one of the founders of the Berlin Jewish Reform Community, and author of the “Aims of Judaism”.
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