Harry K. Wolfe

(1858-1918) lived in Omaha and Lincoln. Psychologist, educator, administrator, founded in 1889 one of the first laboratories in experimental psychology open to undergraduates in the nation while at the University of Nebraska, where he also authored 55 articles, the majority of which were on child study in regional publications for educators, and became known for inspiring at least 22 students to devote their careers to the field of psychology, including the nationally distinguished Bentley, Guthrie, and Pillsbury. Consult obituary in Science, Vol 48 (September 17, 1918) 312-313 and UNL Nebraska Alumnus, May 1939, p. 2 and Biographical Dictionary of American Educators, Vol 3 (Greenwood Press, 1978) 1425 and Ludy T. Benjamin Jr., Harry Kirke Wolfe: Pioneer in Psychology (University of Nebraska Press, 1991) and American National Biography, Vol 23 (1999) 729-730.

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