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==Biography==
==Biography==
The son of a protestant pastor, Krampen was born on March 9, 1928 in [[Siegen]] and was raised in [[Wuppertal]]. He took courses in psychology, philosophy, and theology the University of [[University of Tübingen]] and the [[University of Heidelberg]], and studied design with a focus on painting at [[Accademia delle Belle Arti di Firenze]].<ref name="Favareau"/>{{rp|257}} In 1953 Krampen began studying graphic design and visual communication at the [[Hochschule für Gestaltung]].<ref name="Espe">{{cite journal|last1=Espe|first1=Hartmut|title=An Obituary for Martin Krampen|journal=Empirical Studies of the Arts|date=12 January 2016|volume=34|issue=1|pages=140–141|doi=10.1177/0276237415621213}}</ref> After graduating from the school with a diploma in, he went on to obtain his PhD in Visual Communications from [[Michigan State University]] in 1962.<ref name="Favareau">{{cite book|last1=Favareau|first1=Donald|title=Essential Readings in Biosemiotics: Anthology and Commentary|date=2010|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=9781402096501|pages=257-277|url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=2_tEPA6TcFIC&lpg=PA257&dq=inauthor%3A%22Donald%20Favareau%22%20Chapter%208%20Phytosemiotics&pg=PA257#v=onepage&q=inauthor:%22Donald%20Favareau%22%20Chapter%208%20Phytosemiotics&f=false|url-access=limited|accessdate=30 March 2018|language=en|chapter=Chapter 8: Phytosemiotics}}</ref>{{rp|257}} While there his studies were focused design and psychology.<ref name="ZKM">{{cite web|title=Martin Krampen|url=http://zkm.de/en/person/martin-krampen|website=zkm.de|publisher=ZKM|accessdate=12 September 2016}}</ref>
The son of a protestant pastor, Krampen was born on March 9, 1928 in [[Siegen]] and was raised in [[Wuppertal]]. He took courses in psychology, philosophy, and theology the University of [[University of Tübingen]] and the [[University of Heidelberg]], and studied design with a focus on painting at [[Accademia delle Belle Arti di Firenze]].<ref name="Favareau"/>{{rp|257}} In 1953 Krampen began studying graphic design and visual communication at the [[Hochschule für Gestaltung]].<ref name="Espe">{{cite journal|last1=Espe|first1=Hartmut|title=An Obituary for Martin Krampen|journal=Empirical Studies of the Arts|date=12 January 2016|volume=34|issue=1|pages=140–141|doi=10.1177/0276237415621213}}</ref> After graduating from the school with a diploma in, he went on to obtain his PhD in Visual Communications from [[Michigan State University]] in 1962.<ref name="Favareau">{{cite book|last1=Favareau|first1=Donald|title=Essential Readings in Biosemiotics: Anthology and Commentary|date=2010|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=9781402096501|pages=257–277|chapter-url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=2_tEPA6TcFIC&lpg=PA257&dq=inauthor%3A%22Donald%20Favareau%22%20Chapter%208%20Phytosemiotics&pg=PA257#v=onepage&q=inauthor:%22Donald%20Favareau%22%20Chapter%208%20Phytosemiotics&f=false|url-access=limited|accessdate=30 March 2018|language=en|chapter=Chapter 8: Phytosemiotics}}</ref>{{rp|257}} While there his studies were focused design and psychology.<ref name="ZKM">{{cite web|title=Martin Krampen|url=http://zkm.de/en/person/martin-krampen|website=zkm.de|publisher=ZKM|accessdate=12 September 2016}}</ref>


Krampen worked in the field of [[visual semiotics]] and [[environmental perception]], as well as a professional artist. Over the course of his career Krampen held position at universities across North America and Europe teaching courses in social psychology, semiotics, and the psychology of design.<ref name="Favareau" />{{rp|259}} He was the [[University of Waterloo]]'s first full time research associate, where he worked alongside professor George Soulis to study the influence of [[design]] on [[industry]].<ref name="QuarterlyReport1963">{{cite journal|title=Researchers Explore Role of Designer|journal=University of Waterloo Quarterly Report|date=February 1963|page=2|url=http://digital.library.uwaterloo.ca/uwdl-08923a50-0cab-4cda-831b-63fdfea7fdae/university-waterloo-quarterly-report-february-1963#page/2/mode/1up/search/krampen|accessdate=30 March 2018|publisher=University of Waterloo|language=en}}</ref> Krampen taught Visual Communication at [[Hochschule der Künste]] from 1977 until his retirement in 1993.
Krampen worked in the field of [[visual semiotics]] and [[environmental perception]], as well as a professional artist. Over the course of his career Krampen held position at universities across North America and Europe teaching courses in social psychology, semiotics, and the psychology of design.<ref name="Favareau" />{{rp|259}} He was the [[University of Waterloo]]'s first full time research associate, where he worked alongside professor George Soulis to study the influence of [[design]] on [[industry]].<ref name="QuarterlyReport1963">{{cite journal|title=Researchers Explore Role of Designer|journal=University of Waterloo Quarterly Report|date=February 1963|page=2|url=http://digital.library.uwaterloo.ca/uwdl-08923a50-0cab-4cda-831b-63fdfea7fdae/university-waterloo-quarterly-report-february-1963#page/2/mode/1up/search/krampen|accessdate=30 March 2018|language=en}}</ref> Krampen taught Visual Communication at [[Hochschule der Künste]] from 1977 until his retirement in 1993.


Krampen is credited with establishing the field [[phytosemiotics]], the study of vegetative [[semiosis]].<ref>[[Nöth, Winfried]] 1990. ''Handbuch der Semiotik''. Stuttgart: J.B.Metzler, pp. 258-259.</ref> His work would go on to become an important branch of semiotic biology or [[biosemiotics]].<ref name="Rauch">{{cite book|last1=Rauch|first1=Irmengard|title=Semiotic insights : the data do the talking|date=1999|publisher=Univ. of Toronto Press|location=Toronto [u.a.]|isbn=9780802047052|url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=FYFVWjb7LecC&lpg=PP1&dq=inauthor%3A%22Irmengard%20Rauch%22&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false|accessdate=12 September 2016}}</ref>{{rp|132}} Donald Favareau notes that Krampen's 1981 publication "Phytosemiotics" in ''[[Semiotica]]'' is referenced in nearly every introductory overview of the field and that his work is responsible for expanding the scope of [[Thomas Sebeok]]'s [[zoosemiotics]] info the broader study of signs in relation to living organisms.<ref name="Favareau" />{{rp|257}} In a similar acknowledgement of Krampen's influence, [[Kalevi Kull]] credits Krampen's work as "an important step in incorporating biology into semiotics."<ref name="Kull">{{cite book|last1=Kull|first1=Kalevi|editor1-last=Trifonas|editor1-first=Peter Pericles|title=International Handbook of Semiotics|date=2015|publisher=Springer|isbn=9789401794046|pages=521-534|url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=sC5ACQAAQBAJ&lpg=PA525&dq=%22martin%20krampen%22&pg=PA525#v=onepage&q=%22martin%20krampen%22&f=false|url-access=limited|accessdate=30 March 2018|language=en|chapter=Introduction to Biosemiotics}}</ref>{{rp|525}}
Krampen is credited with establishing the field [[phytosemiotics]], the study of vegetative [[semiosis]].<ref>[[Nöth, Winfried]] 1990. ''Handbuch der Semiotik''. Stuttgart: J.B.Metzler, pp. 258-259.</ref> His work would go on to become an important branch of semiotic biology or [[biosemiotics]].<ref name="Rauch">{{cite book|last1=Rauch|first1=Irmengard|title=Semiotic insights : the data do the talking|date=1999|publisher=Univ. of Toronto Press|location=Toronto [u.a.]|isbn=9780802047052|url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=FYFVWjb7LecC&lpg=PP1&dq=inauthor%3A%22Irmengard%20Rauch%22&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false|accessdate=12 September 2016}}</ref>{{rp|132}} Donald Favareau notes that Krampen's 1981 publication "Phytosemiotics" in ''[[Semiotica]]'' is referenced in nearly every introductory overview of the field and that his work is responsible for expanding the scope of [[Thomas Sebeok]]'s [[zoosemiotics]] info the broader study of signs in relation to living organisms.<ref name="Favareau" />{{rp|257}} In a similar acknowledgement of Krampen's influence, [[Kalevi Kull]] credits Krampen's work as "an important step in incorporating biology into semiotics."<ref name="Kull">{{cite book|last1=Kull|first1=Kalevi|editor1-last=Trifonas|editor1-first=Peter Pericles|title=International Handbook of Semiotics|date=2015|publisher=Springer|isbn=9789401794046|pages=521–534|chapter-url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=sC5ACQAAQBAJ&lpg=PA525&dq=%22martin%20krampen%22&pg=PA525#v=onepage&q=%22martin%20krampen%22&f=false|url-access=limited|accessdate=30 March 2018|language=en|chapter=Introduction to Biosemiotics}}</ref>{{rp|525}}


He was a co-editor of ''Zeitschrift für Semiotik''.<ref name="Rauch">{{cite book|last1=Rauch|first1=Irmengard|title=Semiotic insights : the data do the talking|date=1999|publisher=Univ. of Toronto Press|location=Toronto [u.a.]|isbn=9780802047052|url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=FYFVWjb7LecC&lpg=PP1&dq=inauthor%3A%22Irmengard%20Rauch%22&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false|accessdate=12 September 2016}}</ref>{{rp|132}}
He was a co-editor of ''Zeitschrift für Semiotik''.<ref name="Rauch">{{cite book|last1=Rauch|first1=Irmengard|title=Semiotic insights : the data do the talking|date=1999|publisher=Univ. of Toronto Press|location=Toronto [u.a.]|isbn=9780802047052|url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=FYFVWjb7LecC&lpg=PP1&dq=inauthor%3A%22Irmengard%20Rauch%22&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false|accessdate=12 September 2016}}</ref>{{rp|132}}


==Select publications==
==Select publications==
*{{cite journal|title=Handedness as a Variable of Importance in Determining Apparent Movement Direction|journal=The Journal of Psychology|date=1 July 1963|volume=56|issue=1|pages=61–67|doi=10.1080/00223980.1963.9923698|url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00223980.1963.9923698|accessdate=12 September 2016|issn=0022-3980}}
*{{cite journal|title=Handedness as a Variable of Importance in Determining Apparent Movement Direction|journal=The Journal of Psychology|date=1 July 1963|volume=56|issue=1|pages=61–67|doi=10.1080/00223980.1963.9923698|issn=0022-3980|last1=Krampen|first1=Martin}}
*{{cite journal|title=Signs and Symbols in Graphic Communication|journal=Design Quarterly|date=1965|issue=62|pages=1|doi=10.2307/4047303|jstor=4047303}}
*{{cite journal|title=Signs and Symbols in Graphic Communication|journal=Design Quarterly|date=1965|issue=62|pages=1–31|doi=10.2307/4047303|jstor=4047303|last1=Krampen|first1=Martin}}
*{{cite book|title=Classics of Semiotics|date=1987|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|location=New York|isbn=9780306423215|url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=9cgV_nSNzYMC&lpg=PP1&dq=inauthor%3A%22Martin%20Krampen%22&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=true|accessdate=12 September 2016|language=en}}
*{{cite book|title=Classics of Semiotics|date=1987|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|location=New York|isbn=9780306423215|url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=9cgV_nSNzYMC&lpg=PP1&dq=inauthor%3A%22Martin%20Krampen%22&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=true|accessdate=12 September 2016|language=en}}
*"Meaning in the urban environment". Routledge; 2013 May 13.
*"Meaning in the urban environment". Routledge; 2013 May 13.

Revision as of 00:48, 28 January 2019

Martin Krampen
Born(1928-03-09)March 9, 1928
Siegen, Germany
DiedJune 18, 2015(2015-06-18) (aged 87)
Academic work
DisciplineBiosemiotics
Sub-disciplinePhytosemiotics

Martin Krampen (March 9, 1928 in Siegen – June 18, 2015 in Ulm) was a leading German semiotician, semiotics Professor in Göttingen.[1]

Biography

The son of a protestant pastor, Krampen was born on March 9, 1928 in Siegen and was raised in Wuppertal. He took courses in psychology, philosophy, and theology the University of University of Tübingen and the University of Heidelberg, and studied design with a focus on painting at Accademia delle Belle Arti di Firenze.[2]: 257  In 1953 Krampen began studying graphic design and visual communication at the Hochschule für Gestaltung.[3] After graduating from the school with a diploma in, he went on to obtain his PhD in Visual Communications from Michigan State University in 1962.[2]: 257  While there his studies were focused design and psychology.[4]

Krampen worked in the field of visual semiotics and environmental perception, as well as a professional artist. Over the course of his career Krampen held position at universities across North America and Europe teaching courses in social psychology, semiotics, and the psychology of design.[2]: 259  He was the University of Waterloo's first full time research associate, where he worked alongside professor George Soulis to study the influence of design on industry.[5] Krampen taught Visual Communication at Hochschule der Künste from 1977 until his retirement in 1993.

Krampen is credited with establishing the field phytosemiotics, the study of vegetative semiosis.[6] His work would go on to become an important branch of semiotic biology or biosemiotics.[7]: 132  Donald Favareau notes that Krampen's 1981 publication "Phytosemiotics" in Semiotica is referenced in nearly every introductory overview of the field and that his work is responsible for expanding the scope of Thomas Sebeok's zoosemiotics info the broader study of signs in relation to living organisms.[2]: 257  In a similar acknowledgement of Krampen's influence, Kalevi Kull credits Krampen's work as "an important step in incorporating biology into semiotics."[8]: 525 

He was a co-editor of Zeitschrift für Semiotik.[7]: 132 

Select publications

  • Krampen, Martin (1 July 1963). "Handedness as a Variable of Importance in Determining Apparent Movement Direction". The Journal of Psychology. 56 (1): 61–67. doi:10.1080/00223980.1963.9923698. ISSN 0022-3980.
  • Krampen, Martin (1965). "Signs and Symbols in Graphic Communication". Design Quarterly (62): 1–31. doi:10.2307/4047303. JSTOR 4047303.
  • Classics of Semiotics. New York: Springer Science & Business Media. 1987. ISBN 9780306423215. Retrieved 12 September 2016.
  • "Meaning in the urban environment". Routledge; 2013 May 13.
  • "A semiotic perspective on the sciences: Steps toward a new paradigm".Anderson, M., Deely, J., Krampen, M., Ransdell, J., Sebeok, T.A. and von Uexküll, T., 1984. Essential Readings in Biosemiotics, p. 377.
  • "Phytosemiotics". Semiotica, 1981, 36(3-4), pp. 187–210.

References

  1. ^ "Martin Krampen 87jährig gestorben" (in German). schwaebische. 22 June 2015. Archived from the original on 26 June 2015. Retrieved 26 June 2015. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  2. ^ a b c d Favareau, Donald (2010). "Chapter 8: Phytosemiotics". Essential Readings in Biosemiotics: Anthology and Commentary. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 257–277. ISBN 9781402096501. Retrieved 30 March 2018. {{cite book}}: |url-access= requires |url= (help)
  3. ^ Espe, Hartmut (12 January 2016). "An Obituary for Martin Krampen". Empirical Studies of the Arts. 34 (1): 140–141. doi:10.1177/0276237415621213.
  4. ^ "Martin Krampen". zkm.de. ZKM. Retrieved 12 September 2016.
  5. ^ "Researchers Explore Role of Designer". University of Waterloo Quarterly Report: 2. February 1963. Retrieved 30 March 2018.
  6. ^ Nöth, Winfried 1990. Handbuch der Semiotik. Stuttgart: J.B.Metzler, pp. 258-259.
  7. ^ a b Rauch, Irmengard (1999). Semiotic insights : the data do the talking. Toronto [u.a.]: Univ. of Toronto Press. ISBN 9780802047052. Retrieved 12 September 2016.
  8. ^ Kull, Kalevi (2015). "Introduction to Biosemiotics". In Trifonas, Peter Pericles (ed.). International Handbook of Semiotics. Springer. pp. 521–534. ISBN 9789401794046. Retrieved 30 March 2018. {{cite book}}: |url-access= requires |url= (help)

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