Juan Huarte de San Juan

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Juan Huarte de San Juan or Juan Huarte y Navarro (c. 1530-1592) was a Spanish physician and psychologist. He was born at Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port around 1530, and was educated at the university of Huesca, where he graduated in medicine.[1]

Though it appears doubtful whether he practiced as a physician at Huesca, Huarte distinguished himself by his professional skill and heroic zeal during the plague which devastated Baeza in 1566.[1]

Huarte published the first edition of his Examen de ingenios para las ciencias in 1575, which won him a European reputation, and was translated by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. Though now superseded, Huarte's treatise is historically interesting as the first attempt to show the connection between psychology and physiology, and its acute ingenuity is as remarkable as the boldness of its views.[1] In 1594, after his death, a second, revised and expurgated (by the Inquisition) version was published.[2] During the 16th, 17th and 18th century, the Examen was translated into six European languages: French, Italian, English, Latin, German and Dutch.[3]

Today Huarte de San Juan is considered the patron of Spanish psychology.[2][3]

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c Hugh Chisholm. Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition. HUARTE DE SAN JUAN. Cambridge England: at the University press. Published 1910.
  2. ^ a b Julián Velarde Lombraña. HUARTE DE SAN JUAN , PATRONO DE PSICOLOGÍA. Psicothema. 1993. Vol. 5, nº 2, pp. 451-458.
  3. ^ a b Javier Virués Ortega. JUAN HUARTE DE SAN JUAN IN CARTESIAN AND MODERN PSYCHOLINGUISTICS: AN ENCOUNTER WITH NOAM CHOMSKY. Psicothema. 2005. Vol. 17, nº 3, pp. 436-440.

This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.