Hermann Rorschach
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|birth_date = [[8 November]] [[1884]]
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|death_date = [[2 April]] [[1922]]
|death_place = [[Herisau]]
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'''Hermann Rorschach''' [IPA: heɐman ʁoɐʃax] ([[8 November]] [[1884]] [[Zurich]] - [[2 April]] [[1922]] [[Herisau]]) was a [[Switzerland|Swiss]] [[Freud]]ian [[psychiatrist]] and [[psychoanalyst]], best known for developing a [[projective test]] known, from his name, as the [[Rorschach inkblot test]].
When he was in high school, Rorschach was called Klecks, or "inkblot," by his friends. Like many other young people in his native [[Switzerland]], he enjoyed [[Klecksography]], the making of fanciful inkblot "pictures." However, unlike other young people, Rorschach would make inkblots his life's work.
An art teacher like his father, Rorschach showed great talent at painting and drawing conventional pictures. When it was time for him to graduate from high school, he could not decide between a career in art and one in science. He wrote a letter to the famous [[Germany|German]] biologist [[Ernst Haeckel]] to ask his advice. The scientist suggested science, and Rorschach enrolled in medical school at the University of Zurich.
Rorschach studied under eminent psychiatrist [[Eugen Bleuler]], who had taught [[Carl Jung]]. The excitement in intellectual circles over psychoanalysis constantly reminded Rorschach of his childhood inkblots. He wondered why different people often see entirely different things in the same inkblots. While still a medical student, he began showing inkblots to schoolchildren and analyzing their results.
==External links==
* [http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/1232.html Biography from WhoNamedIt.com]
* [http://www.stub.unibe.ch/html/rorschach/en/allginfo.html The Hermann Rorschach Archives and Museum], organized by the International Rorschach Society and the publishing company Hans Huber
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