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Wilhelm Wundt

German founder of psychology

Born
August 16, 1832
Died
August 31, 1920 (aged 88)
Known as
philosopher, university teacher, psychologist, physiologist, writer

Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt was a German physiologist, philosopher, professor, and 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.

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