Lev Semenovich Vygotsky
D.O.B. November 5, 1896
MARRIED: Rosa Noevna Smekhova (1924)
DIED June 10, 1934 of tuberculosis

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Early Education
 

Childhood

Preparatory Studies (up to 1913)

 
 
Higher Education
Moscow University (1913 - 1917)

Shaniavsky People's University (1914 &endash; 1917)

Moscow University
(1917 &endash; 1925)

 

 
Moscow University and Kharkov (1931 - 1934)

 

Work Experience

 

1917 - 1924

 

 

 

 

 

 

1925 &endash; 1929

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

1929

 


 
1930 - 1934

1931

 

 

1934

 

 

 

Other Positions Held

 

 

 

 

Published Works

 

1915
 
 
1917 &endash; 1924
 

1918 - 1919

 
 
1929 &endash; 1930
 
* There are over 180 total works written by Vygotsky
 

Major Accomplishments

 
 
1917 &endash; 1924
 
 
1925
 

 

*Vygotsky has influenced
research in areas such as:

 

 

 

 

 

*Founder of new disciplines:

 

 

 

Major Conferences
 
1924
 

 

 

 

1925
 

 

 

Languages
(Spoken and Written)

 

 

Home Schooled by Solomon Ashpiz

Public Gymnasium
* Completed final 2 years in a private
Jewish school of higher academic caliber
 
Medical School (1 month)
Law School

Foundations in history, philosophy, psychology, and literature

Obtained Ph.D.
-Was exempted from dissertation defense
due to illness

Returned to medical school

 

 

 

Teacher in Gomel:

-Literature and Russian at Labor School, at
adult schools, courses for specialization of
teachers, the Workers' Faculty, and at
technical schools for pressmen and
metallurgists.
-Logic and psychology at the Pedagogical
Institute
-Aesthetics and art history at the
Conservatory
-Theater at a local studio

 

Lecturer, Researcher, Professor, and
Department Head
-Department of Social Sciences at Moscow
University
-Russian Psychoanalytic Society
-Krupskaya Academy of Communist
Education
-Institute for Child and Adolescent Health
-Pedagogical Department of the Moscow
Conservatory
-the second Medical Institute
-Karl Leibknecht Industrial-Pedagogical
Institute.

 

First Central Asian State University
(in Tashkent, USSR)
-Trained teachers and psychologists
 
Lecturer in the psychology of art
-Chamber Theater of Moscow
 

Member of the Department of Psychology

of the Ukrainian Psychoneurological
Institute (in Kharkov)

 

Named director of the Psychological Section
of the National Institute of Experimental
Medicine

 

 

-Position at Scientific State Council
-Position at the Society of Materialistic
Neuropsychologists,
-Position at the Presidium of the Krupskaya
Academy
-Other positions in many plenary meetings
and conventions on public education

 


Published literary critiques in several
magazines
Published articles in the theater section of a
newspaper
Published Fire and one other book with
David Vygotsky and Semyon Dobkin

Wrote almost 50 works

 

 

 

 

-Initiated "Literary Mondays"
-Co-founder of magazine Veresk
 
First director of the Psychological
Laboratory for Abnormal Childhood in
Moscow

 

-Play
-The evolution of childrens' drawing
-Literate codes
-The nature of thought disturbance in certain
schizophrenias
-Cybernetics
-Aesthetics
-Literary criticism
-The psychology of creativity
-Defectology
-Transcultural psychology
-Cognitive anthropology
-Education
-*Metatheoretic contributions also

 

-Neuropsychology
-Neurolinguistics
-Psycholinguistics
-The psychology of art

 

 

Second Psychoneurological Congress
(in Leningrad)
First Lecture: "The Methodology of
Reflexologic and Psychological
Investigations"

 

International Congress on the Teaching of
Deaf Mutes (in England)
-Russian Delegate
-Visited related institutes in Germany,
France, and Holland

 

German, Russian, Hebrew, French, English,
Latin, Greek, and Esperanto