Wilhelm Wundt
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Wilhelm Wundt in 1902
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| Born | Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt 16 August 1832 Neckarau near Mannheim, Grand Duchy of Baden, German Confederation |
| Died | 31 August 1920 (aged 88) Großbothen, Saxony, Germany |
| Residence | Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Fields | Experimental psychology, Culture and Psychology, Philosophy, Physiology |
| Institutions | University of Leipzig |
| Alma mater |
University of Heidelberg (MD, 1856) |
| Thesis | Untersuchungen über das Verhalten der Nerven in entzündeten und degenerierten Organen (Research of the Behaviour of Nerves in Burned and Degenerating Organs) (1856) |
| Doctoral advisor | Karl Ewald Hasse |
| Other academic advisors |
Hermann von Helmholtz Johannes Peter Müller |
| Doctoral students | Oswald Külpe, Hugo Münsterberg, James McKeen Cattell, G. Stanley Hall, Edward B. Titchener, Lightner Witmer |
| Known for |
Experimental psychology Cultural Psychology |
| Influences | Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Immanuel Kant, Gustav Theodor Fechner, Johann Friedrich Herbart |
| Influenced | Emil Kraepelin, Sigmund Freud |
Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt (16 August 1832 – 31 August 1920) was a German physician, physiologist, philosopher, and professor, known today as one of the founding figures of modern psychology. Wundt, who noted psychology as a science apart from philosophy and biology, was the first person to ever call himself a psychologist. He is widely regarded as the "father of experimental psychology". In 1879, Wundt founded the first formal laboratory for psychological research at the University of Leipzig. This marked psychology as an independent field of study. By creating this laboratory he was able to establish psychology as a separate science from other topics. He also formed the first academic journal for psychological research, Philosophische Studien (from 1881 to 1902), set up to publish the Institute's research.
A survey, published in American Psychologist 1991, ranked Wundt's reputation in first place regarding "all-time eminence" based on ratings provided by 29 American historians of psychology (ranked a distant second and third: William James and Sigmund Freud.
Wundt was born at Neckarau, Baden (now part of Mannheim) on 16 August 1832, the fourth child to parents Maximilian Wundt (a Lutheran minister), and his wife Marie Frederike, née Arnold (1797–1868). Wundt's paternal grandfather was Friedrich Peter Wundt (1742–1805), Professor of Geography and pastor in Wieblingen. When Wundt was about four years of age, his family moved to Heidelsheim, then a small medieval town in Baden-Württemberg.
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