Sándor Imre (13 October 1877 – 11 March 1945) was a
Hungarian educator, who served as
Minister of Religion and Education in 1919 for eight days. He proposed the education of the
psychology
Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Its subject matter includes the behavior of humans and nonhumans, both consciousness, conscious and Unconscious mind, unconscious phenomena, and mental processes such as thoughts, feel ...
on the universities, firstly in Hungary. His plans were fulfilled in 1929 at the
University of Szeged
The University of Szeged () is a Public university, public research university in Szeged, Hungary. Established as the Jesuit Academy of Kolozsvár in present-day Cluj-Napoca in 1581, the institution was re-established as a university in 1872 by ...
. The
Institute of Psychology on Szeged was created on 18 December 1929.
Biography
He was born onto a
Calvinist
Reformed Christianity, also called Calvinism, is a major branch of Protestantism that began during the 16th-century Protestant Reformation. In the modern day, it is largely represented by the Continental Reformed Protestantism, Continenta ...
family on
Hódmezővásárhely
Hódmezővásárhely (; also known by other alternative names) is a city with county rights in southeast Hungary, on the Great Hungarian Plain, at the meeting point of the Békés-Csanádi Ridge and the clay grassland surrounding the river Tisz ...
.
References
Magyar Életrajzi LexikonPukánszky Béla: Imre Sándor neveléstana és műveinek válogatott bibliográfiája
1877 births
1945 deaths
Ministers of education of Hungary
People from Hódmezővásárhely
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