| Code | DS/UK/377 |
| Dates | 25/02/1877-28/11/1935 |
| Person Name | Hornbostel; Erich Moritz von (25/02/1877-28/11/1935); Dr. |
| Surname | Hornbostel |
| Forenames | Erich Moritz von |
| Title | Dr. |
| Activity | Ethno musicologist; First director of the Berlin Phonogramm-Archiv (1905); published the important Sachs-Hornbostel system of musical instrument classification with his colleague Carl Sachs (1914). During the First World War he, together with Max Wertheimer, invented the 'Richtungshörer' (directional listening device) which was used for military purposes from 1915; representative of Gestalttheory in musicology. |
| Relationships | Son of Erich Otto von Hornbostel (1846–1910) and Helene Hornbostel (1840–1914), née Magnus. Helene Hornbostel was the aunt of Alice Magnus, wife of Max Warburg. Erich Moritz married Susanne, née Apolant, in Berlin (21/08/1903). |
| History | Studied chemistry at the University of Vienna [PhD]; in Berlin became assistant of Carl Stumpf at the Berlin Psychological Institute [Psychologisches Institut] in the field of musical psychology and psychoacoustics. |
| Source | Bose, Fritz, „Hornbostel, Erich M von“, in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 9 (1972), S. 633 f. [Onlinefassung]; <URL:
http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/artikelNDB_pnd118774956.html> [accessed 11/10/2010]; <http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Moritz_von_Hornbostel> [accessed 11/10/2010]. |
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