| Albert Lefevre | |
| Birth Date: | October 4, 1873 |
| Birth Place: | Baltimore, Maryland, USA |
| Death Date: | December 18, 1928 |
| Death Place: | Charlottesville, Virginia, USA |
| Alma Mater: | University of Texas at Austin Cornell University |
| Occupation: | Psychologist |
Albert Lefevre (1873–1928) was an American psychologist.
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]
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]
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]