The current essay aims at reconstructing the history of the School of Turin, which became one of the most important Italian centres of psychological research starting from the last decades of the 19th century thanks to its founding fathers, Angelo Mosso, Friedrich Kiesow, and Mario Ponzo, and to their close relationship with the German scientific world. Indeed, as Mosso worked in the Laboratory of Physiology directed by Carl Ludwig at Leipzig University, and Kiesow was one of Wilhelm Wundt’s assistants at his Leipzig Laboratory of Psychology, both brought to their Institute of Physiology and of Psychology at the University of Turin not only the German experimental practices, which were in the forefront of the scientific research of that time, but also the particular German organization of the laboratory work, in which there was a connection between research and teaching and which involved the division of work among research teams. This model was adopted by Ponzo, one of Kiesow’s assistants, and then transferred to the Institute of Psychology at the University of Rome, where Ponzo worked after Turin.
The Influence of the Leipzig Institutes on the School of Turin
SINATRA, Maria;
2010-01-01
Abstract
The current essay aims at reconstructing the history of the School of Turin, which became one of the most important Italian centres of psychological research starting from the last decades of the 19th century thanks to its founding fathers, Angelo Mosso, Friedrich Kiesow, and Mario Ponzo, and to their close relationship with the German scientific world. Indeed, as Mosso worked in the Laboratory of Physiology directed by Carl Ludwig at Leipzig University, and Kiesow was one of Wilhelm Wundt’s assistants at his Leipzig Laboratory of Psychology, both brought to their Institute of Physiology and of Psychology at the University of Turin not only the German experimental practices, which were in the forefront of the scientific research of that time, but also the particular German organization of the laboratory work, in which there was a connection between research and teaching and which involved the division of work among research teams. This model was adopted by Ponzo, one of Kiesow’s assistants, and then transferred to the Institute of Psychology at the University of Rome, where Ponzo worked after Turin.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
