Bluma Zeigarnik 5667988 219834973 2008-06-17T02:10:36Z Lightbot 7178666 Units/dates/other '''Bluma Wulfovna Zeigarnik''' ([[Russian language|Russian]]: ''Блюма Вульфовна Зейгарник'') [[9 November]], [[1900]] − [[24 February]], [[1988]]) was a [[Soviet]] [[psychologist]] and [[psychiatrist]] who discovered the [[Zeigarnik effect]] and established experimental [[psychopathology]] as a separate discipline. Born into a [[Jew]]ish family in [[Prienai]], Zeigarnik matriculated from the [[Berlin University]] in 1927. She described the Zeigarnik effect in a diploma prepared under the supervision of [[Kurt Lewin]]. In the 1930s, she worked with [[Lev Vygotsky]] at the All-Union Institute of Experimental Medicine (AUIEM, aka ''VIEM''). During [[World War II]], she assisted [[Alexander Luria]] in repairing head injuries. She was a co-founder of the [[Moscow State University]] [[MSU Department of Psychology|Department of Psychology]] and the All-Russian Seminars in Psychopathology. She died in [[Moscow]] at the age of 87. ==References== *{{ru icon}} [http://www.psy.msu.ru/people/zeigarnik.html Biography of Zeigarnik on the website of the MSU Department of Psychology] *A.V. Zeigarnik, "[http://kratovo.livejournal.com/10302.html Bluma Zeigarnik: A Memoir]" in ''Gestalt Theory'' (2007), no 3, pp. 256-268. ==External links== *[http://kratovo.livejournal.com/10302.html Bluma Zeigarnik: A Memoir by A.V. Zeigarnik] [[Category:Russian psychologists|Zeigarnik]] [[Category:Russian psychiatrists|Zeigarnik]] [[Category:Social psychologists|Zeigarnik]] [[Category:1900 births|Zeigarnik]] [[Category:1988 deaths|Zeigarnik]] [[Category:Psychologists|Zeigarnik]] [[Category:Jewish scientists|Zeigarnik]] [[Category:Moscow State University faculty|Zeigarnik, Bluma]] [[de:Bljuma Wulfowna Seigarnik]] [[es:Bluma Zeigarnik]] [[pl:Bluma Zeigarnik]] [[ru:Зейгарник, Блюма Вульфовна]]