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The early 1890s were a critical time for the development of experimental psychology. Wilhelm Wundt, Georg Elias Müller, Carl Stumpf, and Alexis Meinong were the only Ordinarius (full) professors in German-speaking countries who ran laboratories that practiced the discipline, and Meinong’s laboratory was founded only in 1894. While American laboratories already outnumbered the German ones, the American laboratories were not yet producing studies that signaled advances through novel experiments. In 1894, Wilhelm Dilthey launched his attack on the possibility of an experimental psychology. Of the three Ordinarius professors who had trained the most personnel for the new movement, only Jürgen Bona Meyer still held his chair in Bonn. Franz Brentano, while still active in Vienna, had lost his professorship in 1879, because the former priest was forced to assume Saxon citizenship in order to marry Ida von Lieben. Rudolf Hermann Lotze, the senior of this important trio, had died in 1881. By 1894, conservative critics were attacking experimentalist philosophers for being insufficiently devoted to the elimination of the socialist virus spreading amongst university students (Kusch, 1995, pp. 161–177).
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Haupt, E.J. (2001). Laboratories for Experimental Psychology. In: Rieber, R.W., Robinson, D.K. (eds) Wilhelm Wundt in History. Path in Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0665-2_7
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