| Lienert
was educated in Czechoslovakia. Entering military service, he was wounded at Stalingrad,
then later became a POW of U.S. forces in 1945. Discharged in 1946, he resumed
medical training in Innsbruck and in 1950 got the M.D. degree in Vienna. More
than 20 years later Lienert was honored with a doctor of science degree by Colgate
University, being commended as follows: His study of psychology started as a hobby
in 1947, and in 1952 he was awarded the Ph.D. af Vienna. He has taught at the
universities of Marburg, Hamburg. Düsseldorf. and Erlangen-Nürnberg In his native
land. Dr. Lienert has helped reshape the scope and direction of German psychology
during the last three decades. He is the author of an authoritative German language
text on diagnostic methods and an internationally known three-volume work on nonparametric
statistical methods. He was elected president of the International Biometric
Society (German Region) in 1976. Last year colleagues and former students all
over the worid honored Dr. Lienert with a "Festschrift" to mark his 60th birthday.
At the same occasion an inlemational symposium on "Experimental Psychology in
the Year 2000'' was dedicated to him who "reestablished experimental animal research
in German psychological institutes with Colgate's assistance." Beyond being
nicknamed "the nonparametric Lienert," he was also associated, with the age-regression
hypothesis of intellectual deterioration under alcohol and LSD. He engaged in
developing configural frequency analysis (CFA) as a method for classifying persons
by dicholo-mous variables rather than by scores of hypothetical traits, favoring
typological rather than dimensional personality theories. Heuristically proposed
in 1968. CFA was presented as an inferential method (Krauth & Lienert, 1973)
and has been promoted by subsequent papers, mainly in the English-language Biometrical
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