Vladimir Dvorniković

Vladimir Dvorniković (28 July 1888 – 30 September 1956) was a Serbian ethnic Croat and politically Yugoslav philosopher, ethno-psychologist, a strong proponent of Yugoslav ethnicity and a professor at the University of Zagreb during the 1920s. Dvorniković was also an advocate of psychologism and animal philosophy. He is best known for authoring the book "Characterology of the Yugoslavs."

Biography Early life Vladimir Dvorniković was born in Severin na Kupi, in the Kingdom of Croatia and Slavonia, Austria-Hungary. His father Ljudevit-Lujo was a college teacher, while his mother Marjana was an educator and a part-time publicist. Vladimir was the eldest of eleven children. He attended high school from 1898 to 1906 in Zemun and Sarajevo. He received his doctorate from Vienna in 1911 with his thesis titled "About the necessity of the psychological establishment of the cognitive theory".

Works Along with other texts, he published the following works: Die beiden Grundtypen des Philosophierens, Berlin, 1918. (Oba osnovna tipa filozofiranja) Savremena filozofija (2 sveska), Zagreb, 1919. i 1920. Studije za psihologiju pesimizma (2 sveska), Zagreb, 1923. i 1924. Psiha jugoslavenske melankolije, Zagreb, 1925. (2. prerađeno izdanje) Tipovi negativizma, Zagreb, 1926. T. G. Masaryk kao filozof i sociolog, Prag, 1927. (objavljeno na češkom i na "jugoslavenskom") Borba ideja, Beograd, 1937. Karakterologija Jugoslavena, Beograd, 1939.