Education

University of Cluj psychology degree (1927), PhD Magna cum laude (1929).

Postdoctoral fellow of the School of Philosophy and Letters, University of Cluj (1931).

Specialty courses at the universities of Leipzig, Berlin, Hamburg (1929), Sorbonne (Paris) 1935, and London (1935).

Rockefeller Foundation scientific research scholar at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Chicago, and Duke universities (1932–34).

Professional Activity

Junior assistant (1926–28), assistant (1928–36), lecturer (1936–38), University of Cluj Psychology Institute.

Senior lecturer, applied psychology, Cluj University School of Philosophy and Letters (1938–47).

Psychology substitute and director of the Psychology Institute, Cluj University School of Philosophy and Letters (1938–42).

Director of the Psychotechnic Laboratories with the Ministry of Labor in Cluj and Sibiu (1941–43).

Senior scientific researcher, grade II, Pedagogical Sciences Institute, head of the Cluj branch (1969–71).

Substitute professor and researcher at the Psychology Department of the ‘Babes- Bolyai’ University School of History and Philosophy in Cluj (1971–80).

Guest professor at Bonn University (1971).

Guest professor at Hamburg University (1972).

Guest of the Rockefeller Foundation in the United States (1979–80). Returns to Romania when American doctors confirm his cancer diagnosis.

Passes away on June 13, 1980, in Cluj.

Published Works

Cluj University Psychology Institute Publishing House:

Psihologia exerciţiului, 1929, 158 pp.

Psihotehnica în Germania, 1929, 88 pp.

Psihologia germană contemporană, 1930, 350 pp.

Psihologia învăţării, 1931, 180 pp.

Psihologia franceză contemporană, 1932, 320 pp.

Psihologia configuraţiei (in collaboration with L. Rusu, A. Roşca, D. Todoran), 1929, 176 pp.

Elemente de psihometrie, 1938, 376 pp.

Analiza factorilor psihici, 1938, 216 pp.

Psihologia persoanei, Ediţia I: 1940, 570 pp.; Ediţia a II-a: 1941, 574 pp.

Psihotehnica în marea industrie, 1942, 156 pp.

Psihotehnica, 1943, 504 pp.

Other publishing houses:

Problema evoluţiei, Ed. Societatea de Mâine, Cluj, 1931, 84 pp.

Natura ştiinţei, Ed. Ştiinţifică, Bucureşti, 1969, 504 pp.

Sub semnul omeniei, Ed. pt. Literatură, Bucureşti, 1970, 304 pp.

Psihologie şi literatură, Ed. Dacia, Cluj, 1971, 350 pp.

Orientare şcolară şi profesională—scientific coordinator and author of five chapters, around 100 pages, Ed. Didactică şi Pedagogică, Bucureşti, 1972, 350 pp.