From 1911 to 1927 he taught at the University of Giessen. There he wrote Growth of the Mind: An Introduction to Child Psychology (1921). In 1922 he introduced the gestalt programme with an article in the Psychological Bulletin to readers in the USA. From 1927 onwards he taught in the USA at Smith College. There he published Principles of Gestalt Psychology (1935).
External links
Gestalt psychology website of the international Society for Gestalt Theory and its Applications - GTA (http://www.gestalttheory.net/)
Website on gestalt psychology with biographies of Wertheimer et al. (http://www.ship.edu/~cgboeree/gestalt.html)
Koffka was associated with the University of Giessen (1911–24) and served as a subject (1912), along with Köhler, in experiments on perception conducted by Wertheimer.
Koffka conducted a great amount of experimental work, but he is perhaps best known for his systematic application of Gestalt principles to a wide range of questions.
In 1924 Koffka began a series of visits to several American universities, and in 1927 he was appointed professor of psychology at Smith College in Northampton, Mass., where he remained for the rest of his life.
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