Joachim F. Wohlwill, born in Hamburg, Germany, on September 27, 1928, left Europe as a teenager to escape the Holocaust and grew up with an American family near Boston. He was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard, earning his undergraduate degree in social relations, and completed his doctorate in psychology at the University of California at Berkeley. He was a National Science Foundation post-doctoral fellow at the University of Geneva in Switzerland, where he worked with famed developmental psychologist Jean Piaget. From 1963 to 1964, he was a fellow at Stanford University's Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences. After 12 years as a faculty member at Clark University, he joined the Penn State faculty in 1970 as Professor in the College of Human Development's Department of Individual and Family Studies; he was a member of Penn State's faculty for seventeen years. He published numerous articles in the fields of general psychology, developmental psychology and environmental psychology, and published a book, The Study of Behavioral Development. Prior to his death, he was researching children's exploratory and play behavior, as well as the role of computer graphics in fostering creativity in school children. Joachim F. Wohlwill died on July 11, 1987.
From the description of Joachim Wohlwill papers, 1951-1987. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 309909298
