<Tr> <Th> Influences </Th> <Td> Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Immanuel Kant, Gustav Theodor Fechner, Johann Friedrich Herbart </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Influenced </Th> <Td> Emil Kraepelin, Sigmund Freud </Td> </Tr> <P> Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt (16 August 1832--31 August 1920) was a German physician, physiologist, philosopher, and professor, known today as one of the founding figures of modern psychology . Wundt, who noted psychology as a science apart from philosophy and biology, was the first person ever to call himself a psychologist . He is widely regarded as the "father of experimental psychology ." In 1879, Wundt founded the first formal laboratory for psychological research at the University of Leipzig . This marked psychology as an independent field of study . By creating this laboratory he was able to establish psychology as a separate science from other topics . He also formed the first academic journal for psychological research, Philosophische Studien (from 1881 to 1902), set up to publish the Institute's research . </P> <P> A survey published in American Psychologist in 1991 ranked Wundt's reputation in first place regarding "all - time eminence" based on ratings provided by 29 American historians of psychology . William James and Sigmund Freud were ranked a distant second and third . </P>

Who was known as the father of psychology