Background
Hans Furth was born on December 2, 1920, in Vienna, Austria. He was a son of Hugo and Jula Fürth.
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75 Laurier Ave E, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada
The University of Ottawa where Hans Furth received his Master of Arts degree.
Gallery of Hans Furth
1825 SW Broadway, Portland, OR 97201, USA
Portland State University where Hans Furth received his Doctor of Philosophy degree.
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Marylebone Rd, Marylebone, London NW1 5HT, UK
The Royal Academy of Music where Hans Furth studied.
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75 Laurier Ave E, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada
The University of Ottawa where Hans Furth received his Master of Arts degree.
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1825 SW Broadway, Portland, OR 97201, USA
Portland State University where Hans Furth received his Doctor of Philosophy degree.
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Marylebone Rd, Marylebone, London NW1 5HT, UK
The Royal Academy of Music where Hans Furth studied.
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Thinking Without Language Psychological Implications of Deafness
(Based on systematic experimental investigation, this orig...)
Based on systematic experimental investigation, this original study of the intellectual functioning of profoundly deaf persons presents data and conclusions of major importance to psychologists and others concerned with theories of thought and learning.
https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Language-Psychological-Implications-Deafness/dp/B000NUQRH2/?tag=2022091-20
1966
Piaget and Knowledge: Theoretical Foundations
(Provides a comprehensive guide of the theories of intelli...)
Provides a comprehensive guide of the theories of intelligence expounded by the leading Swiss scientist.
https://www.amazon.com/Piaget-Knowledge-Theoretical-Hans-Furth/dp/0136749291/?tag=2022091-20
1969
Thinking Goes to School: Piaget's Theory in Practice
(Proposes to show how children can be prepared to develop ...)
Proposes to show how children can be prepared to develop their full potential as 'thinking' human beings. The activities or 'games' described provide a general foundation which should help the child to deal successfully with specific academic subjects.
https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Goes-School-Piagets-Practice/dp/019501927X/?tag=2022091-20
1975
Knowledge as Desire
https://www.amazon.com/Knowledge-as-Desire-Hans-Furth/dp/0231064594/?tag=2022091-20
1987
Hans Gerhard Furth
Edit ProfileEducation
As a child Hans G. Furth trained in classical piano and was active in Austrian Boy Scouts. Later he studied at the Royal Academy of Music, graduating in 1940. After the immigration to North America, Furth studied at the University of Ottawa where he received a master's degree in clinical psychology in 1954. Then he studied at Portland State University and received a doctorate degree in psychology in 1960.
Career
After graduating from the Royal Academy of Music Hans G. Furth planned to become a concert pianist. He performed at internment camps for Jewish refugees in various locations throughout Britain. After that, he spent the next decade as a monk in the Carthusian order. Soon he emigrated to North America.
In America Hans G. Furth studied psychology and after graduation became a professor of psychology at the Catholic University of America, in Washington, D. C. He was also research director of hearing and speech at Children’s Hospital in Washington, D. C.
In 1966 and 1967, he was U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare special fellow at the University of Geneva. Furth published his first book Thinking without Language: Psychological Implications of Deafness in 1966. In the last years of his life, Hans G. Furth often performed at area nursing homes, playing works of Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart. He died from the heart attack that killed him while hiking in Shenandoah National Park.
Achievements
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Hans Furth was known as a professor of psychology who worked at the Catholic University of America. He was famous for his books devoted to developmental psychology. He popularized the philosophy of Swiss child development psychologist Jean Piaget and also argued in favor of educating deaf children in sign language.
Works
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Thinking Without Language Psychological Implications of Deafness
(Based on systematic experimental investigation, this orig...)
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Thinking Goes to School: Piaget's Theory in Practice
(Proposes to show how children can be prepared to develop ...)
1975 -
Piaget and Knowledge: Theoretical Foundations
(Provides a comprehensive guide of the theories of intelli...)
1969 - Knowledge as Desire 1987
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Thinking Without Language Psychological Implications of Deafness
Politics
Fürth and his wife, Madeleine Steen Furth, were active in the civil rights movement, offering their home in Washington, D.C., to protesters who marched with Martin Luther King Jr. in August 1963.
Membership
Hans Furth was a member of the Wanderbirds Hiking Club.
Interests
Connections
Hans Furth married Madeleine Steen Furth. The marriage produced seven children: Sonia, Peter, Julie, Daniel, David, Paul, and Cathy.
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Education
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1940
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1954
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1960