Rudolph Goclenius the Elder (Latin: Rudolphus Goclenius; born Rudolf Gockel or Göckel; 1 March 1547 – 8 June 1628) was a German scholastic philosopher. He is often credited with coining the term psychology in 1590, though the term had been used by Marko Marulić at least 66 years earlier.[1]