Geschichte des Husserl-Archivs/ History of the Husserl-Archives

摘要

IIn 2009 many conferences on Edmund Husserl’s philosophy were held in honor of his 150th birthday. Husserl was born on the 8th of April in 1859 in the city of Prosnitz, Moravia, today in the Czech Republic. Before he became the famous founder of the phenomenological philosophy that piqued the interest of philosophers, sociologists and psychologists all over the world, he had studied mathematics and philosophy at the universities of Leipzig and Berlin. In Berlin he studied with Weierstrass and Kronecker and wrote his dissertation on the calculus of variations (Beitra¨ge zur Theorie der Variationsrechnung, 1883) under Weierstrass. He became Weierstrass’s assistant before moving to Vienna to study under Franz Brentano. Brentano advised him to finish his habilitation somewhere in Germany; Husserl completed ‘‘On the Concept of Number’’ at the University of Halle in 1887, staying on for 14 years as a Privatdozent. His ‘‘breakthrough to phenomenology’’ and the beginning of the phenomenological movement is connected with the publication of the Logical Investigations 1900–1901 [cf. 1–4]. From then on, Husserl was a well-known figure, first among German philosophers and later all over the world.