Thomas Johannes Lauritz Parr, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Norwegian psychologist
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Place of Birth: Drøbak, Akershus, Norway
About Thomas Johannes Lauritz Parr
- Thomas Johannes Lauritz Parr (13 May 1862 – 12 August 1935) was a Norwegian educator and psychologist. He was born in Drøbak as a son of ship-owner Hans Henry Parr and Laura Jørgensen.
- In March 1897 in Bergen he married Helga Johanne Eide, a daughter of consul Ludolf Eide and sister of Egil Eide.
- The couple had the son Albert Eide Parr, a noted zoologist and oceanographer who married a daughter of Peder Hansen.Parr finished Kristiania Commerce School in 1877, worked in an office for four years and from 1882 to 1883 he studied for, and took, the examen artium.
- He enrolled at the Royal Frederick University, and after one year of studying theology he switched to philology and graduated with the cand.philol.
- degree in 1890.
- He was hired as a teacher at Tanks Upper Secondary School in 1892 and Bergen Cathedral School in 1900.
- He retired for health reasons in 1929.He was a modern pedagogical thinker for his time, and wrote prolifically in Samtiden, Vor Ungdom and Skolebladet as well as the newspaper Bergens Tidende.
- He also became known a pamphlet in 1918, in which he tried to counter the ideas of the comprehensive school whose inception was prepared by a special committee at that time.
- He was also interested in moral and psychology, and publicly debated these subjects from the 1890s.
- From 1899 to 1900 he conducted a study travel to Germany.
- In 1912 he issued the book Følelsesbetoningens intellektuelle egenverdi.
- It was later expanded into a German-language thesis, Der intellektuelle Eigenwert der GefĂĽhlsbetonung in 1922, but already in 1913 he successfully submitted the dissertation for the dr.philos.
- degree.
- He also published academically in French and English.
- He was hired as a part-time lecturer at Bergen Museum, and from 1917 he was a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.He was described as a "noble character" who dedicated himself to counter all forms of cheating and promote academic honesty.
- At the same time he was derided for his "exaggerated, nervously determined diligence" and "pathological self-criticism".
- He died in August 1935 in Bergen.
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