Edmund Husserl

Roy Elveton (Carleton College)

Ed. by Gerhard P. Knapp, University of Utah
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.4.1: German-language Writing and Culture: Germany, 500-present.
Vol. editors: Gerhard P. Knapp (University of Utah), Jennifer Marston William (Purdue University), Herbert Rowland (Purdue University), Jill E. Twark (East Carolina University)

Dates

Born 8 Apr 1859
Died 27 Apr 1938
Activity 1887-1928

Places

Born in Czech Republic
Active in Germany

Cultural Identities

Jewish European

Activities

Primary

Philosopher

Resources

Husserl's Works

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Edmund Husserl, the founder of the phenomenological movement in philosophy and the originator of transcendental phenomenology, was born on 8 April 1859 in Prossnitz, Moravia. He died on 27 April 1938 in Freiburg, Germany.

Husserl's early education emphasized mathematics and the natural sciences. He studied mathematics, physics, astronomy and philosophy at the University of Leipzig, and in 1878 studied in Berlin, a major center for mathematical research, under the mathematicians Karl Weierstrass and Leopold Kronecker who, strongly emphasizing the foundations of mathematics, likely nourished Husserl's early interest in philosophy. Husserl went on to complete a Ph.D. in mathematics under Weierstrass with a thesis on complex variables but the decisive philosophical influence upon Husserl

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Citation: Elveton, Roy. "Edmund Husserl". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 26 September 2003 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=2274, accessed 23 November 2024.]

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