Hiroshi Chiwa

Born: June 29th, 1891 in Okayama, Okayama prefecture
Died: August 13th, 1978

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Education

• B.A (1916) Department of philosophy, College of Letters, Tokyo Imperial University (Major psychology).—His academic dissertation was “Senshin sagyo ni okeru hirou to renshu (Mental fatigue and practice of mental work)”

Landmarks

• 1926 Associate professor at Department of Letters, Tokyo Imperial Unioversity
• 1933 Went to Germany and entered Berlin University (now Humboldt University.)
• 1935 Came back to Japan
• 1943 Professor at Tokyo Imperial University
• 1952 Retired Tokyo Imperial University
• 1952 Professor at Aoyama Gakuin University
• 1966 Retired Aoyama Gakuin University

Contributions

• Hiroshi Chiwa contributed to the introduction of Gestalt psychology in Japan.

Honors

• 1965 Honorary member of Japanese Psychological Association

Keywords

• Research of work and behavior
• Gestalt psychology 

Web Links

• From the Tokyo University website—Hiroshi Chiwa’s diary while in Germany

References

• Hiroshi Oizumi (2003). Nihonshinrigakusha-jiten. Tokyo: Kabushiki Kaisha Kress Shuppan.