Edmund Husserl Philosopher

Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl (/ˈhʊsɛrl/; German: [ˈhʊsɐl]; April 8, 1859 – April 27, 1938) was a German philosopher who established the school of phenomenology. He broke with the positivist orientation of the science and philosophy of his day. He elaborated critiques of historicism and of psychologism in logic. Not limited to empiricism, but believing that experience is the source of all knowledge, he worked on a method of phenomenological reduction by which a subject may come to know directly an essence.Although born into a Jewish family, Husserl was baptized as a Lutheran in 1886. He studied mathematics under Karl Weierstrass and Leo Königsberger, and philosophy under Franz Brentano and Carl Stumpf. Husserl himself taught philosophy as a Privatdozent at Halle from 1887, then as professor, first at Göttingen from 1901, then at Freiburg from 1916 until he retired in 1928. Thereafter he gave two notable lectures: at Paris in 1929, and at Prague in 1935. The notorious 1933 race laws of the Nazi regime took away his academic standing and privileges. Following an illness, he died at Freiburg in 1938.

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Alias (AKA)	Husserl Edmund Gustav Albrecht
Birth date	April 08, 1859
Birth place	Czech Republic , Moravia , Austrian Empire , Prostějov
Date of death	April 26, 1938
Place of death	Nazi Germany , Freiburg im Breisgau
Era	20th-century philosophy
Main interest	Epistemology Mathematics Ontology

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influenced	Jean-Paul Sartre Kurt Gödel Maurice Merleau-Ponty Pope John Paul II José Ortega y Gasset Max Scheler Hans Blumenberg Paul Ricœur Adolf Reinach Jan Patočka Shaun Gallagher Edith Stein Jacques Derrida Martin Heidegger Rudolf Carnap Ludwig Landgrebe Emmanuel Levinas Marvin Farber Bernard Stiegler Dan Zahavi Hermann Weyl Gabriel Marcel Leszek Kołakowski Dallas Willard Hans Köchler Roman Ingarden Eugen Fink
influenced by	David Hume Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Immanuel Kant Johann Gottlieb Fichte Plato René Descartes Bernard Bolzano Carl Stumpf Gottlob Frege Franz Brentano Karl Weierstrass Hermann Lotze
notable idea	Physicalism Transcendental idealism Lifeworld Noema Phenomenology (philosophy) Eidetic reduction Retention and protention Epoché Nous Bracketing (phenomenology)
philosophical school	Phenomenology (philosophy)
region	Western philosophy