<P> 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 ( 1795 -- 1878 ) and Gustav Theodor Fechner ( 1801 -- 1887 ) had initiated research on sensory psychology and psychophysics -- and where two centuries earlier Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz had developed his philosophy and theoretical psychology , which strongly influenced Wundt 's intellectual path . 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 Weber 's great contribution to think of measuring psychic quantities and of showing the exact relationships between them , to be the first to understand this and carry it out . '' </P>
<P> 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 ( 1795 -- 1878 ) and Gustav Theodor Fechner ( 1801 -- 1887 ) had initiated research on sensory psychology and psychophysics -- and where two centuries earlier Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz had developed his philosophy and theoretical psychology , which strongly influenced Wundt 's intellectual path . 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 Weber 's great contribution to think of measuring psychic quantities and of showing the exact relationships between them , to be the first to understand this and carry it out . '' </P>
who served as the foundation for wundts work
who served as the foundation for wundts work
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz