Erik Homberger Erickson Essay

Erik Homberger Erikson was born in Frankfurt, Germany. Erikson did not like going to school. He studied art and language but not his general core classes. He chose at that time not to go to college after graduating high school. He traveled Europe wanting to become an artist; it was a hard time traveling by foot and only having to sleep under bridges at night. After traveling around Europe for about a year, keeping a diary record of his travel experiences, enduring the harshness of having to live as a poor person outside in the elements, he decided to go back to Germany and enroll in an art school. After being at the art school for many years, Erikson decided to take up teaching at the school since he had learned so much about art and many other subjects including psychology and philosophy. Being that Europe was the forerunner in learning philosophy and psychology many American children that came to Vienna for their Freudian training were under Erikson’s teaching. In the early 1930’s Erikson moved to the United States to work at Harvard …show more content…
Stanley Hall was born in Ashfield, Massachusetts in 1844. He was one of the leaders in the psychology field in the United States. “He was regarded as the founder of child psychology and educational psychology.” Hall had originally gone to school to become a minister. He departed the Union Theological Seminary in New York City after a short time to go study abroad in Germany to follow learning in philosophy. He came back to the United States in 1872 to teach at Antioch College in Ohio. While teaching in Ohio, he took on his new life’s work after reading Physiological Psychology by Wilhelm Wundt, after reading the book his new outlook was dedicated to psychology. Hall moved back to Germany to further is new life’s work and continue to study Psychology to acquaint himself with Wundt and Helmholtz who was a physicist and physiologist. Hall’s continued learning led him to the accepting of the questionnaire for psychological