Robert S. Hartman

Robert Schirokauer Hartman (January 27, 1910 – September 20, 1973) was a logician and philosopher. His primary field of study was scientific axiology (the science of value) and he is known as its original theorist. His axiology is the basis of the Hartman Value Inventory (also known as the "Hartman Value Profile (HVP)". which is used in psychology to measure the character of an individual.

Robert S. Hartman was born in Berlin, Germany on January 27, 1910. He studied at the German College of Political Science, and also at the University of Paris, the London School of Economics, and at the University of Berlin, from which he received an LL.B. degree.

He started working as instructor in administrative law and the philosophy of law at the University of Berlin, and he also served as Assistant Judge of the District court, Berlin-Charlottenburg. In 1932 he left Germany for Britain and "started working for Walt Disney Productions as a copyright representative in Britain and later opened offices for Disney in Denmark, Norway, Finland and Sweden where he met and married his wife. The Hartmans moved to Mexico City where he represented Disney Productions in Central America and the Antilles."

In 1941 he migrated to the United States, became a citizen, and did his doctoral work in philosophy at Northwestern University in 1946. He taught at the University of Berlin, at Lake Forest Academy near Chicago, at the College of Wooster, Ohio State University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, before assuming duties in Mexico. In 1955-1956 he was Visiting Professor at Yale University. He spent his later days as simultaneously a Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tennessee as well as at the National University of Mexico. In the late 1950s he was among the first members of the Society for General Systems Research.

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