Albert Lefevre (1873–1928) was an American psychologist.

Early life

Lefevre was born on October 4, 1873, in Baltimore, Maryland.^[1] He received a bachelor's degree and a master's degree from the University of Texas at Austin.^[1] He studied at Johns Hopkins University,^[1] before transferring to Cornell University, where he received a PhD in Psychology in 1898.^[2] He completed his studies by spending two years in Berlin, Germany, from 1898 to 1900.^[1]

Career

Lefevre taught psychology at Cornell University from 1900 to 1903.^[1][2] He then taught psychology at Tulane University from 1903 to 1905.^[1][2] He joined the faculty at the University of Virginia in 1905, where he taught until his death in 1928.^[1][3]

He served as the third president of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology in 1910.^[1][4] He was a member of the American Philosophical Society.^[2] He was the associate editor of The Philosophical Review and the Virginia Quarterly Review.^[2]

He was the recipient of an honorary doctorate of laws from the University of South Carolina in 1905.^[1]

Death

Lefevre was operated for appendicitis in November 1928.^[5] He died on December 18, 1928, in Charlottesville, Virginia.^[2][3] His 1928 portrait is stored in the Special Collection at the University of Virginia Library.^[6]

Works

• The ethical system of Bishop Butler (Cornell, New York: Cornell University Press, 1898).^[7]
• Immanuel Kant; his life and doctrine. (New York, C. Scribner, 1902).^[8]

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