1927 - 1987
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Lawrence Kohlberg was born on October 25, 1927, in Bronxville, New York. He attended the University of Chicago received his bachelor’s degree in just one year and got his PhD in psychology there in 1958. Kohlberg was an assistant professor at Yale University and the University of Chicago. He got married in 1955 and had two children. Kohlberg eventually died by walking into the Boston Harbor in 1987 from depression and because of a parasitic infection he contracted while in Belize in 1971. Up until his death, beginning in 1968, Kohlberg was a professor of education and social psychology at Harvard. He is known for his theory of moral development.
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