William Wundt, born in Baden, Germany on August 16, 1832, was the son of a Lutheran pastor. He was quite the studious boy, and solitary at that. At the ripe age of 19, he was sent to Tubingen, Heidelburg and Berlin to study medicine. Despite his family's wishes, he was more interested in the science what makes people tick, then a medical career. Wundt became assistant professor at Heidelburg in 1864 and, three years later, developed a course called …showed first 75 words of 361 total…

…showed last 75 words of 361 total…at Leipzig, where he remained for the next 45 years. In 1875, a separate classroom was set aside for his experimentation in sensation and perception. We celebrate this year as the founding of experimental psychology, due to William Wundt. In 1881, he began his journal "Philosophische Studien." The following year, he began instructing his first class titled experimental psychology. Soon afterward, his efforts were rewarded with the establishment of the first ever "Institute for Experimental Psychology" at Leipzig.