Wilhelm Wundt

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Wilhelm Wundt was a German physician, physiologist, and philosopher widely regarded as the founder of experimental psychology and the first psychological laboratory.

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instanceOf academic
human
philosopher
physician
physiologist
psychologist
child Eleonore Wundt
countryOfCitizenship Germany
dateOfBirth 1832-08-16
dateOfDeath 1920-08-31
describedAs father of experimental psychology
doctoralAdvisor Johannes Peter Müller
educatedAt University of Berlin NERFINISHED
University of Heidelberg NERFINISHED
University of Tübingen NERFINISHED
employer University of Heidelberg NERFINISHED
University of Leipzig NERFINISHED
University of Zurich
ethnicGroup German
familyName Wundt
fieldOfWork epistemology
experimental psychology
philosophy
physiology
voluntarism (psychology)
founded first laboratory of experimental psychology at the University of Leipzig
fullName Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt
givenName Wilhelm
hasAcademicDiscipline philosophy
physiology
psychology
inceptionOfLaboratory 1879
influenced Charles Spearman
Edward Bradford Titchener
G. Stanley Hall
Hugo Münsterberg
James McKeen Cattell
Oswald Külpe
early experimental psychology
languageOfWorkOrName German
mainInterest conscious experience
cultural psychology
introspection
movement structuralism
notableFor being regarded as the founder of experimental psychology
founding the first laboratory dedicated to experimental psychology
notableStudent Charles Spearman
Edward Bradford Titchener
G. Stanley Hall
Hugo Münsterberg
James McKeen Cattell
Oswald Külpe
notableWork Ethics
Lectures on Human and Animal Psychology
Principles of Physiological Psychology
Völkerpsychologie
placeOfBirth Grand Duchy of Baden
Neckarau
placeOfDeath Großbothen
Kingdom of Saxony
positionHeld Associate Professor of Anthropology and Medical Psychology at the University of Heidelberg
Professor of Inductive Philosophy at the University of Zurich
Professor of Philosophy at the University of Leipzig
religion Protestantism
sexOrGender male
spouse Sophie Mau
studentOf Hermann von Helmholtz
workLocation Heidelberg
Leipzig
Zurich


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