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a German physiologist, philosopher, and professor, known today as one of the fathers of modern psychology.
Born
16 August 1832 Neckarau near Mannheim, Grand Duchy of Baden, German Confederation
Died
31 August 1920 (aged 88) Großbothen, Saxony, Germany
Known for
Experimental psychology Cultural psychology Structuralism Apperception
Fields
Experimental psychology, Cultural psychology, philosophy, physiology
Institutions
University of Leipzig
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Germany
Doctoral advisor
Karl Ewald Hasse
Doctoral students
Oswald Külpe, Hugo Münsterberg, James McKeen Cattell, G. Stanley Hall, Edward B. Titchener, Lightner Witmer, James Mark Baldwin, Walter Dill Scott, Ljubomir Nedić
Education
University of Heidelberg ( MD, 1856)
era
1800+
Influenced
Emil Kraepelin, Sigmund Freud, Moritz Schlick
Influences
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Immanuel Kant, Gustav Theodor Fechner, Johann Friedrich Herbart
Other academic advisors
Hermann von Helmholtz Johannes Peter Müller
Thesis
Untersuchungen über das Verhalten der Nerven in entzündeten und degenerierten Organen (Research of the Behaviour of Nerves in Inflamed and Degenerated Organs) (1856)