Who is Wilhelm Wundt? #Antroeducation

            Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt or Wilhelm Wundt as known as the Father of Experimental Psychology. He was born on August 16th 1832 in Neckarau, Germany but in 1836, his family moved to Baden Wuttenberg. His Father, Friedrich Muller, was a Lutheran Minister. Wundt lived in Germany and he was a German Psychologist who wrote many books about Psychology.

To expand his education, he went to college and he attended the University of Tubingen in 1851 and after one year, he moved to the University of Heidelberg and receiving his medical degree in 1856. In 1858 or two years later after he received his medical degree, Hermann von Helmholtz received a call to Heidelberg as a professor of Physiology and Wundt became his assistant until 1865. Wilhelm Wundt was also attending the University of Berlin and learned about Physiology for one season. So he got a medical degree but also capable on Physiology.

            When Wundt became an assistant for Helmholtz, Wundt wrote the Contributions to the Theory of Sense Perception(Beitrage zur Theorie der Sinneswahmehmung) and after work with Helmholtz he wrote the Principles of Physiological Psychology.  All of his book remains to his day one of the most influential in Psychology. Wundt joined the University of Leipzig in 1875. In 1879, for the first time, he found the laboratory especially for Experimental Psychology. So he is the founder of the first Psychology Laboratory at the University of Leipzig and he contributed so much to the development of Psychology.

            The Laboratory was used primarily by German Philosophers and Psychology student. Because his digree was medical, he started with Physiology and study about how different stimuli causes different sensations. And he created Voluntarism, the process of organizing the mind as known as and Experimental Psychology which studies the mind through experiments.

Between in 1863 and 1864, Wilhelm Wundt published Lectures on the Mind of Humans and Animals. In 1881, Wundt wrote Philosopical Studies which is the first journal of Psychology. And Psychology reported that he trained 186 graduate students and 116 in Psychology and the most commonly known is Edward Titchener. Psychology reported too that Wundt separated Psychology and Physiology and analyzing the workings of the mind in a more structured way. Wundt also brought to light a new perspective and helped others gain more knowledge. In addition, he has done so much research and put in so much time in his 65 years long career. Recorded from the Standford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, it is estimated that he has produced 53.000 pages of work. Relating back to psychology, physiology, history, philosophy, and so much more. 

Wilhelm Wundt was the very beginning of Psychology, and he is the founder of the Psychology Laboratory so that’s why we called him as the Father of Psychology. There’s a lot of his important role in Psychology, and of course because of him, we can learned and know more about Psychology. Wilhelm Wundt passed away(died) on August 31th 1920 but his soul will always stay in a blood of Psychology.