Oswald Külpe

Oswald Külpe

Oswald Külpe (German: [ˈkylpə]; 3 August 1862 – 30 December 1915) was a German structural psychologist of the late 19th and early 20th century. Külpe, who is lesser known than his German mentor, Wilhelm Wundt, revolutionized experimental psychology at his time. In his obituary, Aloys Fischer wrote that, “undoubtedly Külpe was the second founder of experimental psychology on German soil; for with every change of base he made it a requirement that an experimental laboratory should be provided.” Külpe studied as a doctoral student and assistant to Wundt at the University of Leipzig, though his ideas differed from Wundt as he developed his own research (Boring, 1961). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Oswald Külpe has received more than 65,029 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Oswald Külpe is the 130th most popular psychologist (down from 123rd in 2019), the 42nd most popular biography from Latvia (down from 35th in 2019) and the most popular Latvian Psychologist.