In 1910 he worked at the Psychological Institute of Frankfurts University. There he became interested in perception. Together with two younger assistants, Wolfgang Köhler and Kurt Koffka he studied the effect of moving pictures a toy stroboscope generates. In 1912 he published his seminal paper on "Experimental Studies of the Perception of Movement." and was offered a lectureship.
From 1916 to 1925 he was in Berlin (as assistant professor form 1922 onwards). In 1925 he came back to Frankfurt as professor.
In 1910 a psychologist, MaxWertheimer by name, was traveling by train from Vienna to the Rhineland on his vacation.' During this journey an idea came to him for a research study which was to found Gestalt psychology.
Wertheimer summarized these mistaken beliefs in terms of the "bundle hypothesis" and the "association hypothesis."24 Sensory elements do not form a bundle and association does not serve as a means of binding together, because there is not a summative relationship as the psychologists whom they were attacking claimed.
Wertheimer lectured at Frankfurt from 1912 on, where he was Dozent, as he did later at Berlin, where he went in 1916.2 He became an "Assistant Professor" in Berlin in 1922, and Professor at Frankfurt in 1929 where he returned to take Schumann's old chair.
The German psychologist MaxWertheimer (1880-1943) was the originator of Gestalt psychology, which had a profound influence on the whole science of psychology.
MaxWertheimer was born in Prague on April 15, 1880.
Soon Wertheimer realized that Hitler was not a passing phenomenon, and he accepted an invitation from the New School for Social Research in New York City to join its University in Exile (later the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science).
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