Richard Müller-Freienfels Explained
Richard Müller-Freienfels (1882–1949) was a German philosopher, psychologist and social critic. He was "one of the most important mediators of empirical psychology" to poetics.[1]
Life
Müller-Freienfels was born in Bad Ems on 7 August 1882.[2] He was a lecturer and writer at the Berlin Trade School (Handelsschule Berlin).[1] He died on 12 December 1949 in Weilburg.[2]
Works
- Psychologie der Kunst: eine Darstellung der Grundzüge, 1912
- Poetik [Poetics], 1914
- Persönlichkeit und weltanschauung: die psychologischen grundtypen in religion, kunst und philosophie, 1919
- Philosophie der individualität, 1921
- Psychologie des deutschen Menschen und seiner Kultur : ein volkscharakterologischer Versuch, 1922. Translated by Rolf Hoffmann as The German, his psychology and culture: an inquiry into folk character, 1936.
- Die Seele des Alltags : eine Psychologie für Jedermann, 1925.
- Geheimnisse der Seele, 1927. Translated by Bernard Miall as Mysteries of the Soul, 1929
- Die Hauptrichtungen der gegenwärtigen Psychologie, 1929. Translated by W. Béran Wolf as The evolution of modern psychology, 1935.
Notes and References
- Book: Sandra Richter. A History of Poetics: German Scholarly Aesthetics and Poetics in International Context, 1770-1960. 2010. Walter de Gruyter. 978-3-11-022244-9. 131, 160–1.
- https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz66888.html Müller-Freienfels, Richard (Pseudonym unter anderem Sebastianus Segelfalter)
