Richard Müller-Freienfels

Richard Müller-Freienfels (1882–1949) was a German philosopher, psychologist and social critic. He was "one of the most important mediators of empirical psychology" to poetics.

Life Müller-Freienfels was born in Bad Ems on 7 August 1882. He was a lecturer and writer at the Berlin Trade School (Handelsschule Berlin). He died on 12 December 1949 in Weilburg.

Works Psychologie der Kunst: eine Darstellung der Grundzüge, 1912 Poetik [Poetics], 1914 Persönlichkeit und weltanschauung: die psychologischen grundtypen in religion, kunst und philosophie, 1919 Philosophie der individualität, 1921 Psychologie des deutschen Menschen und seiner Kultur : ein volkscharakterologischer Versuch, 1922. Translated by Rolf Hoffmann as The German, his psychology and culture: an inquiry into folk character, 1936. Die Seele des Alltags : eine Psychologie für Jedermann, 1925. Geheimnisse der Seele, 1927. Translated by Bernard Miall as Mysteries of the Soul, 1929 Die Hauptrichtungen der gegenwärtigen Psychologie, 1929. Translated by W. Béran Wolf as The evolution of modern psychology, 1935.