HUARTE DE SAN JUAN

huarte de san juan, or huarte y navarro, juan (c. 1530-1592), spanish physician and psychologist, was born at saint-jean-pied-de-port (lower navarre) about 1530, was educated at the university of huesca, where he graduated in medicine, and, though it appears doubtful whether he practised as a physician at huesca, distinguished himself by his professional skill and heroic zeal during the plague which devastated baeza in 1566. he died in 1592. his _examen de ingenios para las ciencias_ (1575) won him a european reputation, and was translated by lessing. though now superseded, huarte's treatise is historically interesting as the first attempt to show the connexion between psychology and physiology, and its acute ingenuity is as remarkable as the boldness of its views.