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Wilhelm Wundt

Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt 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.

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culture · German founder of psychology (1832–1920) · philosopher · university teacher · psychologist · physiologist · writer · also Wilhelm Wundt, Wundt, Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt, Wilhelm Max Wundt

Born 16 August 1832 · Died 31 August 1920 · Q75814

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Awarded Pour le Mérite (1912).
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Awarded Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (1908).
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2026· 1 entry

Jun 18, 2026Documented record69% confidence

Indiatimes: Quote of the day by the father of modern psychology, Wilhelm Wundt: "We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not…"

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2025· 1 entry

Aug 28, 2025Documented record69% confidence

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: Wilhelm Wundt in Leipzig: Ausstellung würdigt Psychologen

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2020· 2 entries

Aug 31, 2020Documented record69% confidence

spektrum.de: Wilhelm Wundt: Vom Pionier zum Außenseiter

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Aug 24, 2020Documented record69% confidence

idw: Universität Leipzig ehrt Wilhelm Wundt - Begründer des weltweit ersten Psychologischen Instituts starb vor 100 Jahren

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2007· 1 entry

Aug 13, 2007Documented record69% confidence

idw: 175. Geburtstag von Wilhelm Wundt

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2002· 1 entry

2002Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Ranked Wundt as the 93rd most cited psychologist of the 20th century, tied with Edwin Boring, John Dewey, and Amos Tversky

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1991· 1 entry

1991Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Ranked Wundt's reputation as first for "all-time eminence", based on ratings provided by 29 American historians of psychology

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1980· 1 entry

1980Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Restrict themselves primarily to the psychology or the philosophy

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1920· 1 entry

Aug 31, 1920Documented record86% confidence

Died 1920-08-31.

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1918· 1 entry

1918Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

For documentation purposes): "On the task of philosophy in the present"

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1917· 1 entry

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To devote himself to his scientific writing

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1912· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1912Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Pour le Mérite (1912).

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1908· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1908Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (1908).

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1902· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1902Documented record84% confidence

Awarded honorary citizen of Leipzig (1902).

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1895· 1 entry

1895Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

And of the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1909

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1892· 1 entry

Jan 1, 1892Documented record76% confidence

“s epistemology in his publication Was soll uns Kant nicht sein? (What Kant should we reject?) 1892 with regard to the forms of perception and presuppositions, as well as Kant”

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1889· 1 entry

1889Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

On the centenary of the French Revolution

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1879· 4 entries

1879Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

At the University of Leipzig, Wundt founded the first formal laboratory for psychological research

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1879Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

At the University of Leipzig, Wundt opened the first laboratory ever to be exclusively devoted to psychological studies, and this event marked the official birth of psychology as an independent field of study

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1879Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Stimulated a number of publications about Wundt, also in the US Very little productive research work has been carried out since then

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1879Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Wundt began conducting experiments that were not part of his course work, and he claimed that these independent experiments solidified his lab's legitimacy as a formal laboratory of psychology, though the university did

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1876· 1 entry

1876Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

To store equipment he had brought from Zurich

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1875· 1 entry

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Wundt was promoted to professor of "Inductive Philosophy" in Zurich, and in 1875, Wundt was made professor of philosophy at the University of Leipzig where Ernst Heinrich Weber and Gustav Theodor Fechner had initiated re

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1874· 1 entry

1874Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Wundt described Immanuel Kant and Johann Friedrich Herbart as the philosophers who had the most influence on the formation of his own views

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1867· 1 entry

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Near Heidelberg, Wundt met Sophie Mau (1844–1912)

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1864· 1 entry

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Became associate professor for anthropology and medical psychology and published a textbook about human physiology

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1862· 2 entries

1862Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

That the development history of the mind and comparative psychology should provide some assistance

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1862Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

By his use of a quotation from Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz on the title page:

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1858· 1 entry

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With responsibility for teaching the laboratory course in physiology

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1832· 1 entry

Aug 16, 1832Documented record86% confidence

Born 1832-08-16.

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