Harald K. Schjelderup, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Norwegian academic
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Place of Birth: Dypvåg, Aust-Agder, Norway
About Harald K. Schjelderup
- Harald Krabbe Schjelderup (21 May 1895 – 19 August 1974) was a Norwegian physicist, philosopher and psychologist.
- He worked with all three subjects on university level, but is best remembered as Norway's first professor of psychology. He was born in Dypvåg as a son of bishop Kristian Schjelderup (1853–1913) and Hendy Hassel (1855–1922).
- He was a brother of Kristian Schjelderup Jr, he too a bishop.
- He finished his secondary education at Kristiansand Cathedral School in 1912, and graduated in physics from the Royal Frederick University.
- Here he also worked as research assistant of Lars Vegard.
- He also worked with anatomy, microscopy and philosophy.
- He released the paper Hovedlinjer i filosofiens utvikling fra midten av det 19.
- århundre til nutiden in 1916, and was hired as a research fellow in philosophy in 1917.
- In line with the tendency of the day, his philosophy was positivist and crossed into psychology.
- He studied experimental psychology in Copenhagen and Göttingen, and took the dr.philos.
- degree in 1919 with the thesis Til sansefornæmmelsernes psykofysiologi.
- He then studied in Berlin and Freiburg, and was appointed as a professor in 1922.
- After six years as a professor of philosophy, he became Norway's first professor of psychology in 1928.
- He worked at the Royal Frederick University (from 1939: the University of Oslo).Among other things, Schjelderup learned psychoanalysis.
- He helped persons like Otto Fenichel and Wilhelm Reich to migrate from Nazi Germany to Norway.
- Then, after Nazi Germany invaded Norway in 1940, Schjelderup became leader of the university's Aksjonsutvalget, a resistance committee.
- Open protests ensued when the Nazi authorities were about to change the rules for admission to the university in autumn 1943.
- In retaliation, the authorities arrested 11 staff, 60 male students and 10 female students.
- The staff Johannes Andenæs, Bjørn Føyn, Johan Christian Schreiner, Eiliv Skard, Anatol Heintz, Odd Hassel, Ragnar Frisch, Carl Jacob Arnholm, Endre Berner and Harald K.
- Schjelderup were sent to Grini concentration camp.
- Schjelderup was first incarcerated at Bredtveit from 15 October to 22 November, then at Berg until 8 December, then at Grini until 5 May 1945.
- He also spent time at Victoria Terrasse under interrogation.After the war Schjelderup returned as professor, and helped build and consolidate the university's psychology studies.
- He became professor emeritus in 1965.
- Important books include Psykologi (1927), Über drei Haupttypen der religiösen Erlebnisformen (1932, written with his brother), Innføring i psykologi (1957) and Det skjulte menneske (1961).
- He was a board member of the International Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (1922) and the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, and was decorated as a Knight 1st Class of the Order of St.
- Olav (1961).
- He was married twice, and died in August 1974 in Oslo.
- A building at the University of Oslo, Harald Schjelderups hus, bears his name.
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