Carl Stumpf 1848 – 1936

Carl Stumpf was a German philosopher, psychologist, and musicologist who taught for many years at Berlin and shaped a generation of phenomenological thought. A student of Brentano, he was the philosophical mentor of Edmund Husserl, the founder of the Berlin Phonogram Archive, and a teacher of the early Gestalt psychologists Koffka, Kohler, and Wertheimer. His two-volume Tonpsychologie established the systematic study of musical perception, while his late Erkenntnislehre articulated his philosophical position. His career spanned the transition from nineteenth-century empirical psychology to twentieth-century phenomenology.