Outlines of Psychology

Wilhelm Wundt, who came to be known as the Father of Experimental Psychology and Founder of modern Psychology, was born in 1832 in a small town in Baden, Germany.  Having obtained a medical degree from the University of Heidelberg, he joined the same university as a lecturer in physiology.  It was here that he published his work on the theory of sense perception and offered the first course even taught in scientific psychology.  In 1873-74 he published the Principle of Physiological Psychology which advanced a new system of psychology and prescribed a new methodology for the examination of conscious experience.  After he became a professor at the University of Leipzig, he established the first ever psychological laboratory in the world.  His other outstanding works include the Outline of Psychology (1896) and Elements of Folk Psychology (1900-20).  Wundt died in Grossbothen in Germany in 1920.