ABSTRACT
In the context of the volatile political history of the region, Max Wertheimer's ancestry was largely a product of wealth and privilege. Wertheimer lectured at the Prague Business Academy for the next eighteen years, and also soon managed to accumulate sufficient financial resources to found and direct his own business school in the fashionable commercial district of downtown Prague. During Max Wertheimer's childhood, two local Prague magazines were popular: Lumir, which argued the need to Europeanize Czech literature, and Stir, the editors and writers of which emphasized strong native traditions and themes. Wertheimer took a typical classical set of courses in natural science, religion, Latin, Greek, mathematics, history, and geography, as well as some work in penmanship, stenography, art, choir, and philosophy. Several of Walter Wertheimer's diary entries relate directly to his younger brother and cast further light on the activities, familial relationships, and general characteristics of Max Wertheimer's life during his early years.
