Martin Reymert

Background

Reymert, Martin was born on November 10, 1883 in Holmestrand, Norway. Son of Jens and Inga (Mathiesen) Reymert.

Education

Graduate Gymnasium, Oslo, 1903. Graduated from Army Officers School, Oslo, 1904. Graduated from State Normal School, 1905.

Examen Philosophicum, University of Oslo, 1906, graduate study, 1906-1916 (with intervals of teaching and military service).

Graduate study and research, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts (as fellow American Scandinavian Foundation, New York), 1916-1917, Doctor of Philosophy, 1917.

Career

Honorary fellow American Scandinavian Foundation and fellow in psychology, State University of Iowa, 1918-1919. Research associate Iowa Child Welfare Research Station, 1919-1920. Established Scandinavian Scientific Review (quarterly, in English language) 1921, editor-in-chief until 1926.

Assistant professor experimental psychology, University of Oslo, and lecturer on educational psychology, State Agricultural College of Norway, 1920-1925.

Standardized group and individual intelligence tests for Norway, at University of Oslo, 1920-1925. Established psychological laboratory, Wittenberg College, Springfield, O., and head department psychology and director of laboratory, 1925-1930.

Established The Mooseheart Laboratory for Child Research, Mooseheart, Illinois, since 1930 (directory).

Achievements

• Martin Reymert has been listed as a noteworthy psychologist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Fellow Ohio Academy Science (vice president in charge psychology, 1929-1930). Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Psychological Association (chairman Clinical Section, 1935-1936), Midwest. Psychological Association, Illinois Society Consultant

Psychologists (president 1939-1942).

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie. Member committee for intelligence research, 1922-1923.

Member American Ednl. Clubs: Rotary International, Pi Kappa Alpha, Psi Chi, Chicago Psychological, Loyal Order of Moose, Chicago Norske.

Consultant in radio programs for children and children's literature.

Connections

Married Dorothy Dix Markley, August 3, 1931. Children: Randi Dix, Karen Jenine, Martin Luther Harvey.

Father:

Jens Reymert

Mother:

Inga (Mathiesen) Reymert

Spouse:

Dorothy Dix Markley

child:

Karen Jenine Reymert

child:

Martin Luther Harvey Reymert

child:

Randi Dix Reymert