Quotes:Wundt, Wilhelm Max

Zirkoff, Boris

Wundt, Wilhelm Max. German psychologist and philosopher, b. at Neckarau (Baden), Aug. 16, 1832; d. at Grossbothen near Leipzig, Aug. 31, 1920. Studied medicine at Tübingen, Heidelberg and Berlin. Began to lecture at Heidelberg, 1857; became, 1875, professor of philosophy at the Univ, of Leipzig, where he founded an institute for experimental psychology, the precursor of many similar institutions, and engaged in important research and teaching until 1917. Wundt was a man of encyclopaedic learning who knew how to correlate his 550 varied knowledge into a unified system of thought. He was a voluminous writer on physiology, psychology, logic and ethics. Among his works mention should be made of the following: Volkerpsy-chologie (1900-20, 10 vols.); System der Philosophic (1889 and 1919); Ethic (1886 and 1923-24); he also edited the Philosophische Studien (20 vols., 1881-1902) and the Psychologische Studien (10 vols., 1906-17). Wundt was on close terms with the famous Theodor Fechner.

H.P.B. refers to Wundt’s pamphlet: *Der Spiritismus. Offener Brief an Herrn Prof. Dr. Hermann Ulrici im Halle, Leipzig, 1879. 8vo. 31 pp.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 2, pp. 549-550