Edmund Husserl

Edmund Husserl (1859–1938) was a philosopher and the founder of phenomenology. He studied mathematics, astronomy, physics, and philosophy in Leipzig and Berlin, earned his doctorate in Vienna, and completed his habilitation in Halle under Carl Stumpf. In 1906 he became a professor in Göttingen, and in 1916 he accepted a position at the University of Freiburg. His major works include Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology (1913) and The Crisis of European Sciences (1936). His unpublished phenomenological analyses comprise around 45,000 pages written in Gabelsberger shorthand. Husserl was born in Prossnitz in 1859 to a Jewish family of cloth merchants and died in Freiburg in 1938.