Wilhelm Wundt
Wilhelm Wundt | |
|---|---|
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, professor, and 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.[1]
He is widely regarded as the "father of experimental psychology".[2][3] 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.[4]
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.[5]
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.[6]
- ^ Neil Carlson, Donald C. Heth: Psychology the Science of Behaviour. Pearson Education Inc. 2010. ISBN 0-205-54786-9. p. 18.
- ^ Kim, Alan (2022), "Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt", in Zalta, Edward N.; Nodelman, Uri (eds.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2022 ed.), Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University, retrieved 5 March 2023
- ^ Butler-Bowdon, Tom (2007). 50 Psychology Classics: Who We Are, How We Think, What We Do: Insight and Inspiration from 50 Key Books. Nicholas Brealey Publishing. p. 2. ISBN 978-1-85788-473-9.
- ^ Wundt: Das Institut für experimentelle Psychologie. Leipzig, 1909, 118–133.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
Fahrenberg2019was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ J. H. Korn, R. Davis, S. F. Davis: "Historians' and chairpersons' judgements of eminence among psychologists". American Psychologist, 1991, Volume 46, pp. 789–792.