Vladimir Wagner

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Wagner (or Vagner: Russian: Владимир Александрович Вагнер; March 29, 1849 – March 8, 1934) was a Russian psychologist and naturalist known for his studies of comparative and evolutionary psychology.[1][2][3] He also studied spiders, and in 1882 proposed the first classification of spider families based on copulatory organs.[4]

Vladimir Wagner
Born
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Wagner

29 March 1849
Kaluga, Russian Empire
DiedMarch 8, 1934(1934-03-08) (aged 84)
Leningrad, USSR
NationalityRussian
Occupation(s)naturalist, psychologist, zoologist, arachnologist
Known forstudies of comparative and evolutionary psychology

He studied law at Moscow University and from 1882, the natural sciences. After earning a doctorate in zoology, he began teaching 1895 at the Institute of Psycho-Neurology St. Petersburg.[5]

References
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  1. Jaan Valsiner; Rene van der Veer (2000). The Social Mind: Construction of the Idea. Cambridge University Press. pp. 357–359. ISBN 978-0-521-58973-4.
  2. Vucinich, Alexander (1988). Darwin in Russian Thought. University of California Press. pp. 153–185. ISBN 978-0-520-06283-2.
  3. Русские биологи-эволюционисты до Дарвина. Материалы к истории эволюционной идеи в России [Russian Evolutionary Biologists Before Darwin. Materials for the History of Evolutionary Ideas in Russia] (in Russian). Alexander Doweld. 1951. p. 415. GGKEY:D8T75RNY5X8.
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  5. Владимир Александрович Вагнер — Визуальный словарь


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