Wundt in his home - photo from his family album from 1904.Photo: Institute of Psychology at Leipzig University
Wundt in his home - photo from his family album from 1904. Photo: Institute of Psychology at Leipzig University Zu "News Portal" Founder of the world's first institute of psychology died 100 years ago On 31 August it will be exactly 100 years since the death of Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt (1832-1920). In 1879, after being appointed professor of philosophy at Leipzig University, Wundt founded the world's first university institute of psychology. Subject textbooks describe the founding of this institute as the birth of modern scientific psychology. The Institute will commemorate him with a ceremony. An outstanding philosopher who was already compared to Aristotle and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz during his lifetime was William Maximilian Wundt , born in 1832 in Neckerau near Mannheim. He studied medicine and completed his habilitation in Heidelberg in 1857.
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