The New Student's Reference Work/Baldwin, James Mark

Bald'win, James Mark (1861), American psychologist, was born at Columbia, S. C., in 1884 graduated from Princeton, and subsequently studied at Leipsic, Berlin and Tübingen. In 1886–87 he was instructor in German in his alma mater, and in the two following years he was professor of philosophy at Lake Forest University, occupying the same chair from 1889 to 1903 in the University of Toronto, Canada. Subsequently he devoted himself to psychological studies, gaining prominence in the science and making a number of contributions to its varied branches; while at the same time filling the chair of psychology at Princeton. In conjunction with Professor Cattell of Columbia he founded the Psychological Review, and in 1901 became editor-in-chief of the Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology. His other publications, besides his translations from French and German, include A Handbook of Psychology, in two volumes (1888), Elements of Psychology (1893), The Story of the Mind and Social and Ethical Interpretations in Mental Development (1897–98). He made many original discoveries and reasearches in his own special department of work, and contributed a number of articles to reviews and encyclopædias.