Hermann
Ebbinghaus was born in Bremen, Germany. He received his
education, including a Ph.D. from the University of
Bonn. In 1880 he published his first paper on memory and
began his nearly 30 years of teaching and publishing in the
field of human memory. Although the first to apply
experimental methods to human memory, he is most well known
for his introduction and use of the nonsense syllable.
He died in 1909 of pneumonia in Breslau, Germany.
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Hermann
Ebbinghaus was born in Bremen, Germany. He received his
education, including a Ph.D. from the University of
Bonn. In 1880 he published his first paper on memory and
began his nearly 30 years of teaching and publishing in the
field of human memory. Although the first to apply
experimental methods to human memory, he is most well known
for his introduction and use of the nonsense syllable.
He died in 1909 of pneumonia in Breslau, Germany.