Bruno Klopfer

Bruno Klopfer (1900 to 1971) was a German psychologist, born in Bavaria, who became one of the leading figures in psychological personality testing. He is remembered as a pioneer and innovator in developing, scoring and popularizing projective techniques, above all the Rorschach inkblot test. After earning a doctorate at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in 1923, he left Germany in 1933 as a Jew, spent a year in Switzerland studying with Carl Jung, and there first met the Rorschach test. In the United States he worked with the anthropologist Franz Boas at Columbia University, founded the Rorschach Research Exchange and Journal of Projective Techniques in 1936, directed the Rorschach Institute, and later served as a clinical professor of psychology at the University of California at Los Angeles until 1963. He wrote The Rorschach Technique and coauthored the Developments in the Rorschach Technique volumes with Mary Ainsworth and others.