HistoryFigure1896–1934

Lev Vygotski

לב ויגוצקי

Region: Union soviétique

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Soviet psychologist, founder of cultural-historical psychology, whose theory of development left a lasting mark on pedagogy. He died young of tuberculosis.

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Sources & resources

E. Kaufmann and J. Kasanin, Journal of Psychology (1937)
« Vygotski, Lev Semyonovich », Encyclopaedia Judaica (2ᵉ éd.) (2007) ↗
A.R. Luria, Journal of Genetic Psychology (1935)
A.N. Leontyev and A.R. Luria, in: B.B. Wolman (ed.), Historical Roots of Contemporary Psychology (1968)