Wilhelm wundt biography timeline info
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Wilhelm Wundt: Pioneer of Psychology
Who is considered the father of psychology? This question does not necessarily have a cut-and-dry answer since many individuals have contributed to the inception, rise, and evolution of modern-day psychology.
We'll take a closer look at a single individual who is most often cited as well as other individuals who are also considered fathers of various branches of psychology.
Why Wundt Is the Father of Psychology
Wilhelm Wundt is the man most commonly identified as the father of psychology. Why Wundt? Other people such as Hermann von Helmholtz, Gustav Fechner, and Ernst Weber were involved in early scientific psychology research, so why are they not credited as the father of psychology?
Wundt is bestowed this distinction because of his formation of the world's first experimental psychology lab, which is usually noted as the official start of psychology as a separate and distinct science.
By establishing a lab that utiliz
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Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt
1. Biographical Timeline
- 1832
- born at Neckarau/Mannheim, August 16
- 1845
- enters Bruchsal Gymnasium
- 1851–2
- study of medicin at Tübingen
- 1852–5
- study of medicin at Heidelberg
- 1853
- first publication “on the sodium chloride content of urine”
- 1855
- medical assistant at a Heidelberg clinic
- 1856
- semester of study with J. Müller and DuBois-Reymond at Berlin;
- doctorate in medicin at Heidelberg; habilitation as Dozent in physiology;
- nearly fatal illness
- 1857–64
- Privatdozent at the Physiological Institute, Heidelberg
- 1858
- Beiträge zur Theorie der Sinneswahrnehmung; Helmholtz becomes director of the Heidelberg Physiological Institute
- 1862
- first lectures in psychology
- 1863
- Vorlesungen über die Menschen- und Tier-Seele
- 1864
- made ausserordentlicher Professor; lectures on physiological psychology (published as Wundt 1873–4)
- 1870–71
- fails to be named Helmholtz’s succe
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Browse History
Wilhelm Wundt was a German physiologist and psychologist, generally acknowledged as the founder of experimental psychology. He graduated with a medical degree from the University of Heidelberg in 1856. He studied briefly with Johannes Müller, before joining the University of Heidelberg faculty, where he became an assistant to the physicist and physiologist Hermann von Helmholtz in 1858. It was during this period that Wundt offered his course in scientific psychology. Until then, psychology had been regarded as a branch of philosophy to be conducted primarily by rational analysis. Wundt instead stressed the use of experimental methods drawn from the natural sciences. His lectures on psychology were published as Lectures on the Mind of Humans and Animals(1863). He was promoted to Assistant Professor of Physiology in 1864.
In his book Principles of Psychology, Wundt promoted a system of psychology for investigating the immediate experiences of consciousness,