Édouard Claparède

Édouard Claparède (1873 to 1940) was a Swiss neurologist, child psychologist and educator based in Geneva. He took a medical degree at the University of Geneva in 1897, worked at the Salpêtrière hospital in Paris, and in 1901 founded the journal Archives de psychologie with his cousin Théodore Flournoy, whom he succeeded as professor of psychology at Geneva in 1915. He directed the university's experimental psychology laboratory, founded the Rousseau Institute in 1912, helped found the International Bureau of Education in 1925 and presided over the International Association of Psychotechnics from 1920. He is also remembered for a memory experiment in which an amnesic patient, pricked by a pin hidden in his hand, hesitated to shake it the next day without recalling why. Among his books are Psychologie de l'enfant et pédagogie expérimentale (1909) and L'éducation fonctionnelle (1931).