David Katz

David Katz (1884 to 1953) was a German-born Swedish psychologist and educator who specialised in Gestalt psychology and phenomenology. He took his doctorate at Göttingen in 1906 and became chair of psychology and education at the University of Rostock in 1919, but lost his post in 1933 when the National Socialists took power. He worked for a time in T. H. Pear's laboratory in Manchester, studying the tongue as a sensory organ, and from 1937 was a professor at Stockholm University until retiring in 1952. His research covered the phantom limb and the effects of amputation, touch, colour, perceptual constancy, the vibration sense, appetite and musical perception, and his books include The World of Touch (1925) and The World of Colour (1935).