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Wilhelm Wundt

1832 to 1920 8 documented presences 7 places

Quo Fuit places 8 dated presences for Wilhelm Wundt across 7 places, from 1832 to 1879. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.

Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt (16 August 1832 – 31 August 1920) was a German physiologist, philosopher, professor, and one of the fathers of modern psychology.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Wilhelm Wundt was documented, and when

16 August 1832exact date
Neckarauattested “Wundt was born at Neckarau, Baden (now part of Mannheim) on 16 August 1832, the fourth child to parents Maximilian Wundt (1787–1846), a Lutheran minister, and Marie Frederike, née Arnold (1797–1868).” source: Wikipedia: Wilhelm Wundt
1851 to 1856period
University of Heidelbergattested “Wundt studied from 1851 to 1856 at the University of Tübingen, at the University of Heidelberg, and at the University of Berlin.” source: Wikipedia: Wilhelm Wundt
1851 to 1856period
University of Tübingenattested “Wundt studied from 1851 to 1856 at the University of Tübingen, at the University of Heidelberg, and at the University of Berlin.” source: Wikipedia: Wilhelm Wundt
1851 to 1856period
University of Berlinattested “Wundt studied from 1851 to 1856 at the University of Tübingen, at the University of Heidelberg, and at the University of Berlin.” source: Wikipedia: Wilhelm Wundt
1856 to 1858period
Heidelbergattested “After graduating as a doctor of medicine from Heidelberg (1856), with doctoral advisor Karl Ewald Hasse, Wundt studied briefly with Johannes Peter Müller and Emil du Bois-Reymond before joining the staff of Heidelberg University, becomin…” source: Wikipedia: Wilhelm Wundt
1875year
University of Leipzigattested “In 1875, Wundt was promoted to professor of "Inductive Philosophy" in Zurich, and in 1875, Wundt was made professor of philosophy at the University of Leipzig where Ernst Heinrich Weber and Gustav Theodor Fechner had initiated research o…” source: Wikipedia: Wilhelm Wundt
1875year
Zurichattested “In 1875, Wundt was promoted to professor of "Inductive Philosophy" in Zurich, and in 1875, Wundt was made professor of philosophy at the University of Leipzig where Ernst Heinrich Weber and Gustav Theodor Fechner had initiated research o…” source: Wikipedia: Wilhelm Wundt
1879year
University of Leipzigattested “Wundt's admiration for Ernst Heinrich Weber was clear from his memoirs, where he proclaimed that Weber should be regarded as the father of experimental psychology: "I would rather call Weber the father of experimental psychology…It was W…” source: Wikipedia: Wilhelm Wundt

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Places Wilhelm Wundt is documented in

University of Leipzig2 presences · 1875 to 1879Heidelberg1 presence · 1856University of Berlin1 presence · 1851University of Heidelberg1 presence · 1851University of Tübingen1 presence · 1851Zurich1 presence · 1875
Neckarau1 presence · 1832

Other places tied to Wilhelm Wundt in the record

In each of these, a source puts Wilhelm Wundt and the place in the same dated sentence without stating that Wilhelm Wundt was there. They are kept apart from the timeline above for exactly that reason: a mention is not a presence, and Quo Fuit does not quietly promote one into the other.

1867year
Heidelbergmentioned “In 1867, near Heidelberg, Wundt met Sophie Mau (1844–1912).” source: Wikipedia: Wilhelm Wundt
14 August 1872exact date
Kielmentioned “They married on 14 August 1872 in Kiel.” source: Wikipedia: Wilhelm Wundt
1876year
Zurichmentioned “The University of Leipzig assigned Wundt a lab in 1876 to store equipment he had brought from Zurich.” source: Wikipedia: Wilhelm Wundt

Documented at the same place, the same year

Élisée ReclusUniversity of Berlin · 1851Leoš JanáčekUniversity of Leipzig · 1879

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