Abstract

LEON, Ramón. European Psychologists in Andean Countries (Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru) in the First Half of the 20th Century. Univ. Psychol. [online]. 2014, vol.13, n.spe5, pp.1689-1880. ISSN 1657-9267.  https://doi.org/10.11144/Javeriana.upsy13-5.pepa.

A small number of European psychologists and educators worked in the so called Andean countries, Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru, in the first half of 20^th. century. In Bolivia Georges Rouma, a Belgian teacher, was responsible for the education reform in the 1910s, and organized an anthropological expedition in the highlands. Oliver Brachfeld, an Hungarian adlerian psychologist, was in Colombia (1965-1966) and Ecuador (1966-1967), where he dead in 1967, teaching at the University of Quito. In Peru the German psychologist Walter Blumenfeld, forced to leave Germany in the years of Hitlerian regime, worked since 1935 at the San Marcos University and was a pioneer of the objective orientation of psychology in this country.

Keywords : European psychologists; Andean countries; 20^th century.

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