Who is known as the ‘father of modern psychology’?

Wilhelm Wundt (1832–1920) is credited as the father of modern psychology due to the fact that he established the very first psychological laboratory at the University of Leipzig in 1879. He managed to establish the science of psychology as independent of both philosophy and biology. Though Sigmund Freud may be considered in popular discourse—particularly in relation to psychotherapy—Wundt is generally the sole academic reference: