Question: who served as the foundation for wundts work
Answer: 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 .