Edmund Husserl | Notable Biographies
(1859/04/08 - 06/04/1938)
Edmund Husserl
German philosopher
He was born on April 8, 1859 in the bosom of a family of Jewish tradition of Prossnitz, Moravia (now Czech Republic).He studied science, philosophy and mathematics at the universities of Leipzig, Berlin, and Vienna, where he was a disciple of mathematicians such as Kronecker and Weirstrass. His doctoral thesis dealt with the calculus of variations.
He showed great interest in the base psychological of the Math and, shortly after being appointed Professor at the University of Halle, he wrote his first book, philosophy of arithmetic (1891). His work links in direct and explicit way with the Rationalist tradition, especially that of Immanuel Kant and René Descartes. He refuted himself in his logical investigations (1900-1901).
It was considered that the work of the philosopher is to overcome attitudes naturalist and psychologistic through contemplation of the essences of things. He admitted that the awareness is constantly directed towards the concrete realities and called to this kind of attention intentionality.
He spent several years at the University of Göttingen, which attracted many students with their theories. He managed was founded school phenomenological and wrote his most influential work: Ideas: an introduction to pure phenomenology (1913). It provided detailed analyses of the mental structures involved in the perception of particular objects; describing very thorough way.
In 1886 he married Malvina Steeinschneider, with whom he has three children. From 1916 he taught at the University of Freiburg, where he died on April 6, 1938.