Wilhelm Wundt
Wilhelm Wundt | |
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Wundt in 1902 | |
| Born | Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt 16 August 1832 |
| Died | 31 August 1920 (aged 88) Großbothen, Saxony, Germany |
| Education | University of Heidelberg (MD, 1856) |
| Known for | Experimental psychology Cultural psychology Apperception |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Experimental psychology, Cultural psychology, philosophy, physiology |
| Institutions | University of Leipzig |
| Thesis | Untersuchungen über das Verhalten der Nerven in entzündeten und degenerierten Organen (Research of the Behaviour of Nerves in Inflamed and Degenerated Organs) (1856) |
| Doctoral advisor | Karl Ewald Hasse |
| Other academic advisors | Hermann von Helmholtz Johannes Peter Müller |
| Doctoral students | James McKeen Cattell, G. Stanley Hall, Oswald Külpe, Hugo Münsterberg, Ljubomir Nedić, Walter Dill Scott, George M. Stratton, Edward B. Titchener, Lightner Witmer |
Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt (/wʊnt/; German: [vʊnt]; 16 August 1832 – 31 August 1920) was a German physiologist, philosopher, and professor, one of the fathers of modern psychology. Wundt, who distinguished psychology as a science from philosophy and biology, was the first person to call himself a psychologist.
He is widely regarded as the "father of experimental psychology". In 1879, at the University of Leipzig, Wundt founded the first formal laboratory for psychological research. This marked psychology as an independent field of study.
He also established the first academic journal for psychological research, Philosophische Studien (from 1883 to 1903), followed by Psychologische Studien (from 1905 to 1917), to publish the institute's research.
A survey published in American Psychologist in 1991 ranked Wundt's reputation as first for "all-time eminence", based on ratings provided by 29 American historians of psychology. William James and Sigmund Freud were ranked a distant second and third.