Carl Stumpf

Carl Stumpf
Carl Stumpf.
Born	21 April 1848 Wiesentheid, Germany
Died	25 December 1936(1936-12-25) (aged 88) Berlin, Germany
Alma mater	University of Göttingen (Dr.phil., 1869; Dr.phil.habil., 1870)
Era	20th-century philosophy
Region	Western Philosophy
School	School of Brentano (early) Berlin School of experimental psychology Phenomenology
Main interests	Ontology Psychology
Notable ideas	Tone psychology (Tonpsychologie) State of affairs (Sachverhalt)
Influences Franz Brentano, Bernard Bolzano, Hermann Lotze
Influenced Kurt Lewin, Kurt Koffka, Edmund Husserl, Wolfgang Köhler, Robert Musil, Max Scheler, George Stout

Carl Stumpf
Theses	Verhältniß des Platonischen Gottes zur Idee des Guten (The Relation of the Platonic God to the Idea of the Good) (summer 1869) Über die Grundsätze der Mathematik (On the Principles of Mathematics) (Oct. 1870)
Doctoral advisor	Hermann Lotze (1870 thesis adv.)

Carl Stumpf (German: [ʃtʊmpf]; 21 April 1848 – 25 December 1936) was a German philosopher and psychologist. 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.

Carl Stumpf was born in Wiesentheid, Franconia, in the Kingdom of Bavaria. His father was the country court physician, and his immediate family included scientists and academicians, like his grandfather, who studied eighteenth century French literature and the philosophers Kant and Schelling. Stumpf showed precocious musical talent as a child, learning the violin by the age of 7. By age 10, he had learned five other instruments and written his first musical composition.

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