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Portrait of Wilhelm Wundt

Long 19th c. · 1832–1920

Who influenced Wilhelm Wundt?

Influences

Founded experimental psychology and a voluntarist metaphysics of will.

Wilhelm Wundt was influenced by Johann Friedrich Herbart. That is 1 line of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.

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Who was Wilhelm Wundt?

Wilhelm Wundt separated psychology as a science from philosophy and biology and was the first person to call himself a psychologist. In 1879 at the University of Leipzig he founded the first laboratory for psychological research, which is why he is called the father of experimental psychology.

He also started the first academic journal of psychological research, Philosophische Studien. In a 1991 survey of American historians of psychology he ranked first for all-time eminence, ahead of William James and Sigmund Freud.

Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.

Who influenced Wilhelm Wundt?

1 direct influence on this map, earliest first.

The line of teachers behind Wilhelm Wundt

The longest documented line of influence ending at Wilhelm Wundt runs 21 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.

  1. Thales of Miletus
  2. Anaximenes of Miletus
  3. Anaxagoras
  4. Socrates
  5. Antisthenes
  6. Diogenes of Sinope
  7. Crates of Thebes
  8. Zeno of Citium
  9. Seneca
  10. Tertullian
  11. Augustine of Hippo
  12. Anselm of Canterbury
  13. Peter Lombard
  14. Thomas Aquinas
  15. René Descartes
  16. Thomas Hobbes
  17. Baruch Spinoza
  18. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
  19. Christian Wolff
  20. Immanuel Kant
  21. Johann Friedrich Herbart
  22. Wilhelm Wundt

Two steps away from Wilhelm Wundt

Indirect influences

Contemporaries of Wilhelm Wundt

Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Wilhelm Wundt, with no direct line between them.

Wilhelm Wundt by the numbers

Direct influences
1
Direct followers
0
Thinkers upstream
83
Thinkers downstream
0
Wikipedia languages
80 — #18 of 47 among 19th-century philosophers
Card rarity
Epic

Questions about Wilhelm Wundt

Who influenced Wilhelm Wundt?
Johann Friedrich Herbart.
Who did Wilhelm Wundt influence?
No later thinker on this map is recorded as drawing directly on Wilhelm Wundt.
When did Wilhelm Wundt live?
1832–1920. The map files Wilhelm Wundt under the long 19th century.
How rare is the Wilhelm Wundt card?
Wikipedia carries an article on Wilhelm Wundt in 80 languages, which makes it an Epic card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.

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