The later developmental psychologist Charlotte Bühler was born on December 20, 1893 in Berlin. She habilitated in 1920 at the Technical University of Dresden and from 1923 worked as a lecturer in psychology at the University of Vienna. She was the third habilitated woman at the university after Elise Richter and Christine Touaillon.
Charlotte Bühler is considered the founder of the “Vienna School of Infant and Youth Psychology”. Together with her husband Karl Bühler she worked at the newly founded Psychological Institute of the City of Vienna. In 1938, they were dismissed from the university by the National Socialists and forced to emigrate.
In 2016, a monument for Charlotte Bühler was unveiled in the Arkadenhof of the University of Vienna.
