Universität Leipzig: Wilhelm-Wundt-Room

Welcome to the Wilhelm-Wundt-Room

enlarge the image: Photographs of the sign that was on Wundt's office door (left), giving his times for student consultation (Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11-12), and of a bust of Wundt by Felix Pfeifer, 1900 (© Jörg D. Jescheniak, 2020). — Photographs of the sign that was on Wundt's office door (left), giving his times for student consultation (Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11-12), and of a bust of Wundt by Felix Pfeifer, 1900 (© Jörg D. Jescheniak, 2020).

Do you wish to see original apparatus used in Wundt's laboratory back in the 19th century? Apparatus includes tachistoscopes for presenting visual stimuli with milliseconds accuracy, chronoscopes for millisecond-accurate measurement of manual or vocal responses, kymographs for tracing physiological changes over time, and many more.

enlarge the image: Photograph from about 1900 of some apparatus set up for an experiment in Wundt's laboratory (left, source: collection of the Institute of Psychology - Wilhelm Wundt, Leipzig University) and photograph from the Wilhelm-Wundt-Room (right, source: Jörg D. Jescheniak, 2020). — Photograph from about 1900 of some apparatus set up for an experiment in Wundt's laboratory (left, source: collection of the Institute of Psychology - Wilhelm Wundt, Leipzig University) and…

Or do you wish to see the desk at which Wundt wrote most of his numerous famous books (including Grundriss der Psychologie [Outline of Psychology] and the ten-volume Völkerpsychologie [Cultural Psychology])?

enlarge the image: Photograph of a first edition of Wundt's Grundzüge der physiologischen Psychologie [Principles of physiological psychology] (source: Jörg D. Jescheniak, 2020). — Photograph of a first edition of Wundt's Grundzüge der physiologischen Psychologie [Principles of physiological psychology] (source: Jörg D. Jescheniak, 2020).

Or do you wish to see reproductions of the rolls from Wundt's classes, signed by students who helped found modern psychology? They include Charles Spearman (1863 — 945), James McKeen Cattell (1860 — 1944), G. Stanley Hall (1844 — 1924), Albert Eduard Michotte (1881 — 1965), Hugo Münsterberg (1863 — 1916), and Edward B. Titchener (1867 — 1927).

You can see all these things and more in our Wilhelm Wundt Room.

enlarge the image: Photograph of a part of the Wilhelm-Wundt-Room (source: Jörg D. Jescheniak, 2020) — Photograph of a part of the Wilhelm-Wundt-Room (source: Jörg D. Jescheniak, 2020)

The only way to see all these things or to go inside our Wilhelm Wundt Room is to book a guided tour, see info box "Guided Tours" for details.

enlarge the image: Photograph of Wilhelm Wundt (dated 1904, source: collection of the Institute of Psychology - Wilhelm Wundt, Leipzig University) — Photograph of Wilhelm Wundt (dated 1904, source: collection of the Institute of Psychology - Wilhelm Wundt, Leipzig University)

Professional high-resolution photographs of many of the apparatus and Wundt’s digitized legacy (some 5,700 documents, including letters and manuscript versions) can be found here: https://sammlungen.uni-leipzig.de/wundt

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