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With its latest exhibition the Center for the History of Psychology of the Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg invites its visitors on a time travel to a “Scholar’s Room” of Psychology in the early 20th century.

Who is actually working in an archive that preserves the history and stories of psychology? Very important: the restorers Esther Gildemann and Franziska Fierdag. They take care of the archival material in terms of restoration and conversation, so that the documents, books, old films, apparatus and instruments are not eaten up by time and years.

Rising infection numbers, worrying developments, a never-ending construction project in the museum's own rooms, and then also a 125th anniversary of the founding of the Institute of Psychology ... quite a few challenges that the Adolf Würth Center had to face in the second pandemic year.

The Institute of Psychology at the University of Würzburg was established 125 years ago. Shortly after its foundation in 1896, it resulted in a world-renowned school: the Würzburg School of Thought.

"It's a boy!" On the 200th Birthday of Hermann von Helmholtz on August 31, 2021

Potsdam, 1821: "Hurray, it's a boy!" is the Helmholtz family's toast to little Hermann, who would celebrate his 200th birthday on August 31. What else would he have invented or discovered to this day? He is still present today as the namesake of the Association of German Research Centers and, of course, in his great discoveries.

William Stern has been one of the outstanding pioneers of psychology. We owe him a debt of gratitude for the development of the intelligence quotient, the tone variator, the first institute of applied psychology, and differential psychology among other things. At only 38 years old, he received an honorary doctorate from Clark University. April 29, 2021 marks the 150th anniversary of his birth.

After more than six years of work from 2013 to 2019 we are pleased to publish the estate of the psychologist Georg Ernst Anschütz.