Talk:Ștefan Odobleja

Questions
If in 1938 the Romanian scientist Stefan Odobleja has published in Paris the book "Psychologie consonantiste" describing the cybernetic principles, how come 10 years later Norbert Wiener gets to be considered the "founding father" of this new science ?

Also how come that 9 years after the book "Psychologie consonantiste" was sent to almost every major University around the globe, Wiener's book called "Cybernetics" appears, being accepted as the "holy grail" of the science that we now call Cybernetics, much of the material being just translations from french to english ?

enough questions.....

Questionable ...
Circumstantial evidence (e.g. Google search "Ştefan Odobleja") suggests that the reason for the obscurity of the Romanian inventor of cybernetics is because it is fairly probable that Odobleja did not actually anticipate Wiener's Cybernetics by a decade. It does however seem to be the case that Odobleja read Wiener's autobiography in 1972, and dedicated his remaining years to an attempt to establish his priority as the Romanian guy who invented Cybernetics first. The campaign seems to have been quite successful within Romania's borders. The present Wikipedia article reads like an attempt to export it to the rest of the world. Whatever the virtues of Odobleja's magnum opus on Consonantal Psychology, they would be better served by articulating, on their own merits and in their own terms, their contribution to psychological theory, than attempting to dislodge Wiener from the head of the table. As for "much of the material [in Wiener's book 'Cybernetics'] being just translations from French to English" -- apart from 'Cybernetics' having been published in France by Hermann at the same time as (or maybe slightly before) its U.S. publication by Wiley, there seems to be no basis for this strange assertion.

Nnvsnu 04:28, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

Odobleja invented cybernetics before Wiener
From: http://www.topedge.com/home/licinfor/stefan.html http://www.ici.ro/romania/en/stiinta/odobleja.html

Our mentor - the father of cybernetics " Stefan Odobleja could be considered not only a Socrate of our times, but also a second Columb, because he had the same destiny: to discover the America of science and at the end this America got another name, not his." (I.C.Dragan) ________________________________________ Stefan Odobleja, the creator of psychocybernetics and the father of generalised cybernetics was born on the 13'th of october 1902 in the house of some poor and illiterate peasants from Izvorul Anestilor - Mehedinti. He went to the high school in Drobeta Turnu Severin and to the college in Bucharest. He became a military doctor. His most important creation "The consonantist psychology" was presented in Psychological Abstracts (1941) but it didn't receive the deserved echo. The cybernetic model, begining from obsevations, intuition and rationality, created by Odobleja in 1938-1939, but used (as we know) ten years later, in the american literature and then in the european one, was used and applied in many scientific fields. Begining with 1972, when he read Norbert Wiener's autobiography, Stefan Odobleja devoted his time to prove that the origin of cybernetics is in psychology. He published a special creation named "The consonantist psychology and cybernetics". He died on the 4'th of september 1978 in misery. His work was better appreciated after his death - in 1982 began the establishment of Stefan Odobleja General Cybernetics Academy and the participants (from Romania and from foreign countries) decided to establish such an Academy in Switzerland too. In all his work, Odobleja tried to answer the questions based on old enigmas. His true value was discussed and recognised all over the world with appreciations like : "You have a golden man, he deserves a golden statue".