Clara Stern was a German developmental psychologist.
10 Facts About Clara Stern
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Clara Stern's father was a banker named Julius Joseephy and her mother's name was Friederike Joseephy.
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Clara and William Stern greatly influenced the growing field of child development.
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One parent would begin storytelling, while the other parent, typically Clara Stern, would take detailed notes.
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Clara and William Stern discovered that their firstborn first designated herself with a name, whereas her two younger siblings started designating themselves with a pronoun.
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However, in 1914, William Clara Stern published a textbook titled Psychology of Early Childhood and he acknowledged his wife's contributions to the work even though she did not appear as a co-author.
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The Clara Stern children went on to all take different paths with their lives.
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Clara Stern was arrested in 1934 for hiding two communist friends, and was committed to socialism and the peace movement until her death.
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Clara Stern adopted the pseudonym Gunther Anders and published works advocating for world peace and opposing nuclear weapons.
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Clara Stern died in 1945 in New York, United States.