Noted Scholars Coming

Two outstanding scholars, one an authority on Kierkegaard and the other a founder of Gestalt psychology in Germany, will be visiting professors at Dartmouth in the fall.

Prof. Paul L. Holmer of the University of Minnesota will join the philosophy faculty for the fall term, as the first Visiting Professor on the William Jewett Tucker Foundation. Prof. Wolfgang Kohler, who retired from Swarthmore and will live in nearby Enfield, N. H., will be Visiting Research Professor in the Department of Psychology.

Professor Holmer is widely known as a student of Kierkegaard and has edited the "Religious Discourses" of the 19th century Danish philosopher. In 1953' as a Fulbright Scholar, he studied the philosophy of Kierkegaard at the University of Copenhagen. A graduate of Minnesota and the holder of a Ph.D. from Yale, Professor Holmer has written the book, Learning and Faith, and has contributed chapters to Christian Ethics, edited by Niebuhr and Beach, and Tragedy andChristian Life, edited by Scott.

Professor Kohler, who will continue his research in perception, a fundamental problem to Gestalt psychologists, was recently at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, to deliver the 1958 Gifford Lectures. Of the three early leaders of the Gestalt movement - Wertheimer, Koffka and Kohler - Dr. Kohler is the only one now living. He holds degrees from the universities at Tubingen, Bonn and Berlin, and is the author of a classic of psychology, The Mentality of Apes, and of his equally famous book, Gestalt Psychology. Professor Kohler came to America permanently in 1934 as William James Lecturer at Harvard. The next year he joined the faculty at Swarthmore, where he remained until his retirement.