Editing Wilhelm Wundt (section)

=== Publications, libraries and letters ===
[[File:Wundt-Plakette Leipzig.tif|thumb|{{center|Wilhelm Wundt commemorative plaque, University of Leipzig}}]]
The list of works at the [[Max Planck Institute for the History of Science]] includes a total of 589 German and foreign-language editions for the period from 1853 to 1950 MPI für Wissenschaftsgeschichte: ''Werkverzeichnis Wilhelm Wundt''.The American psychologist Edwin Boring counted 494 publications by Wundt (excluding pure reprints but with revised editions) that are, on average, 110 pages long and amount to a total of 53,735 pages. Thus Wundt published an average of seven works per year over a period of 68 years and wrote or revised an average of 2.2 pages per day.<ref>Boring: A history of experimental psychology (2nd ed.), 1950, p. 345.</ref> There is as yet no annotated edition of the essential writings, nor does a complete edition of Wundt's major works exist, apart from more-or-less suitable scans or digitalisations.

Apart from his library and his correspondence, Wundt's extraordinarily extensive written inheritance also includes many extracts, manuscripts, lecture notes and other materials<ref>Fahrenberg, 2016; Meyer, 2015; Ungerer, 2016.</ref> Wundt's written inheritance in Leipzig consists of 5,576 documents, mainly letters, and was digitalised by the Leipzig University Library. The catalogue is available at the ''Kalliope online portal''.

One-third of Wundt's own library was left to his children Eleonore and Max Wundt; most of the works were sold during the times of need after the First World War to [[Tohoku University]] in Sendai, Japan. The university's stock consists of 6,762 volumes in western languages (including bound periodicals) as well as 9,098 special print runs and brochures from the original Wundt Library.<ref>M. Takasuma: The Wundt Collection in Japan. In: R.W. Rieber, D. K. Robinson (Hrsg.): Wilhelm Wundt in history: The making of a scientific psychology. Kluwer-Academic, New York 2001, pp. 251–258.</ref><ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Wade | first1 = N. J. | last2 = Sakurai | first2 = K. | last3 = Gyoba | first3 = J. Jiro | year = 2007 | title = Guest editorial essay. Whither Wundt? | journal = Perception | volume = 36 | issue = 2| pages = 163–166 | doi = 10.1068/p3602ed | pmid = 17402661 | doi-access = free }}</ref> The list in the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science only mentions 575 of these entries. [[Tübingen University]] Archive's stock includes copies of 613 letters, Wundt's will, lists from Wundt's original library, and other materials and 'Wundtiana':<ref>Inventory UAT 228 with inventory lists UAT 228/16 to 228/24.</ref>  The [[German Historical Museum]] in Berlin has a 1918 shellac disk on which Wundt repeats the closing words of his inaugural lecture (given in Zürich on 31 October 1874 and re-read in 1918 for documentation purposes): "On the task of philosophy in the present"<ref>Signature T90/447, length of recording is 2 minutes.</ref>