Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

4-25-2025

Keywords

College of New Jersey, empirical psychology, fellowship year, France, Germany, James Baldwin, James McCosh, Lake Forest University, Leipzig, ministry, organic selection, Ph.D., Princeton, psychology, Scottish Realist, secondary school, South Carolina, valedictorian, Wundt

Disciplines

Developmental Psychology

Abstract

James Baldwin was born on January 12, 1861 in Columbia, South Carolina. He attended secondary school in New Jersey. He initially planned on a life in the ministry, but in his first year at Princeton (then the College of New Jersey), he fell under the tutelage of the Scottish Realist James McCosh, and studied empirical psychology instead, graduating as valedictorian in 1894. He spent a fellowship year in Germany and France, studying with Wundt in Leipzig, before returning to Princeton for his Ph.D. He then taught at Lake Forest University for two years, during which time he married.

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