Alfred Lehmann

Born in Copenhagen on December 29, 1858, Alfred Georg Ludvig Lehmann was a Danish psychologist who played a major role in building psychology as an experimental science in Denmark. Sources consistently describe him as a student of Wilhelm Wundt in Leipzig, and after returning to Copenhagen he established a laboratory of psychophysics that became one of the earliest psychology laboratories in the world.

Lehmann wrote on emotion, hypnosis, and the bodily expression of mental states, but he is especially remembered for his investigations of superstition, magic, spiritualism, and related claims. His work approached these subjects critically, trying to explain unusual experiences through psychology and natural causes rather than the supernatural.

He later taught at the University of Copenhagen and is also often noted as the father of seismologist Inge Lehmann. I could confirm reliable biographical details about his life and work, but I could not confirm a suitable portrait image from the pages I checked, so no profile image is included here.