Temperamento y carácter de grandes personajes

Abstract

Kretschmer distinguish the next constitutional categories, or biotypes. Leptosomatic or asthenic with the prevalence of the height over the weight, these subjects are psychologically schizotimic, sensitive, introversive, tidy, and rigid detaching the next historical characters: Kant, Spinoza, Hölderlin, Novalis, Frederick II “The great” King of Prussia, Schiller, Saint Ignatius of Loyola, Robespierre, Tasso, Cardinal Cisneros, Schumann, The Greco, Pious XII, Paulus VI, Calvin, Pascal, Savonarola, Cardinal Richelieu, Philip II … The picnic category is characterized by the predominance of the weight over the height, besides the predominance of the transverse diameters and foreshortened, over the measures and the longitude from the psychological point of view are cyclotimic, or exaggeratedly glad or sad, actives, talkative, realistic, hilarious, intuitive, and flexible. The next historical characters detach Goethe, Goya, Mirabeau, Linneo, Luther, Godoy, General Primo de Rivera, Count-Duke Olivares, Zorrilla, Campoamor, John XXIII, Darwin, Pasteur, Balzac… The most detachable of the athletic category is the big development foreshortened, psychologically, are viscous, persevere in the same topics, imaginative less, Phlegmatic, the affectivity is very small but regular, it is proverbial the marriage happiness of the athletic people and they are excellent militaries. The athletic historical characters who deteach in the history are Hegel, Hindenburg, Pious IX, Alexander the Great, John Paul II… The dysplasic are pathological subjects with an atypical morphology detaching in the history Beethoven and Nietzsche.