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The psychologist and philosopher William Stern was born in Berlin in 1871. During his teaching tenures at the universities of Breslau and Hamburg he contributed mainly to differential psychology, critical personalism, forensic psychology, intelligence testing, and child psychology. Stern escaped Nazi Germany first to Holland and then to the U.S., where he taught at Duke University. William Stern died in Durham, NC in 1938.

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William Stern, Leo Baeck Institute, F 3388.