| LC control no. | n 2003113853 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Harkai Schiller, Pál, 1908-1949 |
| Variant(s) | Schiller, Pál Harkai, 1908-1949 Harkai Schiller, Paul, 1908-1949 Schiller, Paul Harkai, 1908-1949 |
| Associated country | Germany Rumania United States |
| Located | Orange Park (Fla.) |
| Place of birth | Budapest (Hungary) |
| Field of activity | Psychology College teaching |
| Affiliation | Columbia University Yerkes Laboratories of Primate Biology |
| Profession or occupation | College teachers |
| Found in | Harkai Schiller, Pál. A lélektan feladata, 2002: t.p. (Harkai Schiller Pál) p. 5 (1908-1949) George A. Smathers Libraries, Special and Area Studies Collections website, viewed July 7, 2022: Paul Harkai Schiller Papers (Subjects: Schiller, Paul Harkai, 1908-1949) Paul Harkai Schiller was born November 4, 1908, in Budapest. He entered Petrus Pazmany University in 1926...His doctoral thesis, A Lélektani Kategóriák Rendszerének Kialakulása (1930), was an historical review of psychology. After two years of study in Germany under Wolfgang Köhler, he returned to Budapest and was appointed Lecturer in psychology at Pazmany University...After World War II, he accepted a position at Bolyai University in Rumania. When the possibilities for free research dwindled under Communist rule, Schiller accepted an offer from Columbia University to work for six months as a research associate in Teachers College...He came to the United States in 1947. After his brief stay at Columbia, he was asked to join the Yerkes Laboratories of Primate Biology in Orange Park, Florida...On May 1, 1949, Schiller fell to his death after slipping on an iced portion of a trail at Mount Washington. <https://findingaids.uflib.ufl.edu/repositories/2/resources/612> |
| Associated language | hun ger eng |
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