PSYCHOLOGIST

Wilhelm Wundt

1832 - 1920

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Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt (; German: [vʊnt]; 16 August 1832 – 31 August 1920) was a German physiologist, philosopher, and professor, 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. He is widely regarded as the "father of experimental psychology". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wilhelm Wundt has received more than 2,084,405 page views. His biography is available in 76 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 70 in 2019). Wilhelm Wundt is the 8th most popular psychologist (down from 6th in 2019), the 74th most popular biography from Germany (down from 62nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular German Psychologist.

Wilhelm Wundt is most famous for being the father of psychology. He was a German physiologist and psychologist who founded the first laboratory for experimental psychology in 1879.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Wilhelm Wundt ranks 8 out of 235. Before him are Carl Jung, Jean Piaget, Alfred Adler, Abraham Maslow, Erich Fromm, and Lev Vygotsky. After him are Jacques Lacan, John Dewey, Viktor Frankl, William James, Erik Erikson, and Carl Rogers.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1832, Wilhelm Wundt ranks 3. Before him are Édouard Manet, and Gustave Eiffel. After him are Lewis Carroll, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Nikolaus Otto, Maximilian I of Mexico, Gustave Doré, Edward Burnett Tylor, Ivan Shishkin, José Echegaray, and William Crookes. Among people deceased in 1920, Wilhelm Wundt ranks 3. Before him are Max Weber, and Amedeo Modigliani. After him are Srinivasa Ramanujan, Peter Carl Fabergé, Eugénie de Montijo, Anders Zorn, Alexander Kolchak, Alexander of Greece, Princess Margaret of Connaught, Robert Peary, and Bal Gangadhar Tilak.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm Wundt ranks 74 out of 7,253. Before him are Ludwig Feuerbach (1804), Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714), Albertus Magnus (1206), Clara Schumann (1819), Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775), and Erich von Manstein (1887). After him are Richard Strauss (1864), Friedrich Paulus (1890), Charles the Bald (823), Martin Bormann (1900), Karl Jaspers (1883), and Heinrich Hertz (1857).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Germany

Among psychologists born in Germany, Wilhelm Wundt ranks 2. Before him are Erich Fromm (1900). After him are Erik Erikson (1902), Karen Horney (1885), Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850), Hans Eysenck (1916), Kurt Koffka (1886), Fritz Perls (1893), Karl Abraham (1877), Ernst Kretschmer (1888), Ernst Heinrich Weber (1795), and Karl Bühler (1879).

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