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Edmund Husserl

Austrian and German philosopher who founded phenomenology.

He was born in 1859 in Proßnitz, Moravia (now Prostějov in the Czech Republic), into a Jewish family.[1]

Quick Facts

Region
Western philosophy
Era
20th-century philosophy
Birth name
Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl
Born
8 April 1859
Birthplace
Proßnitz, Moravia, Austrian Empire
Died
27 April 1938
Place of death
Freiburg, Germany
School of thought
Continental philosophy, Phenomenology

Facts from the source article.

Life and work

He obtained his PhD in 1883 from the University of Vienna with a work on the calculus of variations.[2][3] In 1887, he completed his habilitation thesis "On the Concept of Number" under Stumpf's supervision at Halle.[4][5] He began teaching as a Privatdozent at Halle in 1887 and later became a professor at Göttingen in 1901 and Freiburg in 1916.[6][7] In 1933, under Nazi racial laws, Husserl was banned from using the University of Freiburg library and later resigned from the Deutsche Akademie.[8][9]

He died in Freiburg in 1938 after an illness.[8][10] After his death, his manuscripts were smuggled to the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium.[11] Karl Weierstrass and Leo Königsberger taught Husserl mathematics, while Franz Brentano and Carl Stumpf instructed him in philosophy.[6]

What the cited sources add

The Husserl Page notes that his wife Malvine wrote a biographical sketch of his life published in Husserl Studies.[3] Beyer's entry reports that Husserl's first book, Philosophy of Arithmetic, sought a psychological foundation for mathematics.[5] The same source notes that Frege critically reviewed this book, accusing Husserl of psychologism.[5] The Husserl Page records that Husserl converted to Christianity in 1886.[3]

Beyer's account mentions that Husserl's Logical Investigations attracted young scholars like Adolf Reinach and Edith Stein to Göttingen.[5]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Edmund Husserl" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Joseph J. Kockelmans, "Biographical Note" per Edmund Husserl, at 17–20, in his edited Phenomenology. The Philosophy of Edmund Husserl and Its Interpretation (Ga; "Husserl Page: Husserl's Biography in Brief", Husserlpage.com (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Edmund Husserl" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Joseph J. Kockelmans, "Biographical Note" per Edmund Husserl, at 17–20, in his edited Phenomenology. The Philosophy of Edmund Husserl and Its Interpretation (Ga (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  3. "Husserl Page: Husserl's Biography in Brief", Husserlpage.com. facts only, no text reused. husserlpage.com
  4. Wikipedia, "Edmund Husserl" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Kockelmans, "Biographical Note" per Edmund Husserl, 17–20, at 17–18, in his edited Phenomenology (Doubleday Anchor 1967). Husserl's 'Philosophie der Arithmetik (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Beyer, "Edmund Husserl", Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University, 2022. facts only, no text reused. plato.stanford.edu
  6. Wikipedia, "Edmund Husserl" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Cooper-Wiele, "The Totalizing Act: Key to Husserl's Early Philosophy", Springer Science & Business Media, 2012-12-06 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Edmund Husserl" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Cf., "Illustrative extracts from Frege's Review of Husserl's Philosophie der Arithmetik", translated by P. T. Geach, at 79–85, in Peter Geach and Max Black, edi; Beyer, "Edmund Husserl", Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University, 2022 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  8. Wikipedia, "Edmund Husserl" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Kockelmans, "Phenomenology and the Natural Sciences: Essays and Translations", Northwestern University Press, 1970, p. 3 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  9. Wikipedia, "Edmund Husserl" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Husserl Page: Husserl's Biography in Brief", Husserlpage.com (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  10. Wikipedia, "Edmund Husserl" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Beyer, "Edmund Husserl", Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University, 2022 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  11. Wikipedia, "Edmund Husserl" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Cf., Peter Koestenbaum, "Introductory Essay" ix–lxxvii, at lxxv–lxxvi, in his edited Edmund Husserl, The Paris Lectures (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 2d ed. 196; Kockelmans, "The Husserl-Archives", at 20–21, in his edited Phenomenology (Doubleday Anchor 1967). (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org

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