Edmund Husserl From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl (German: ['husel]; April 8, 1859 - April 27, 1938)@] was a German!4I5] 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, Husser! was baptized as a Lutheran in 1886, He studied mathematics under Karl Weierstrass and Leo Kénigsberger, and philosophy under Franz Brentano and Carl Stumpf, Husserl himself taught philosophy as a Privatdozent at Halle from 1887, then as professor, first at Géttingen 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 Born Edmund Husserl Edmund Husser! in about 1900. April 8, 1859 ProBinitz, Moravia, Austrian Empire (present-day Prostéjov, Czech Republic) ° Hr | ied April 27, 1938 (aged 79) standing and privileges. Following an illness, he died Freiburg, Germany at Freiburg in 1938 Era 20th-century philosophy Region Western Philosophy Contents School Phenomenology Main Epistemology, ontology, mathematics = 1 Life and career interests = 1.1 Youth and education Notable Phenomenology, epoché, natural = 1.2 Professor of philosophy ideas standpoint, noema, noesis, eidetic #13 Heidegger and the Nazi era reduction, phenomenological reduction, » Devel tof his thought retention and protention, Lebenswelt (life * 2 Development of his thous) world), pre-reflective self- = 2.1 Several early themes consciousness.) transcendental + 2.2 The elaboration of phenomenology subjectivism, erticism of "physicalist = 3 Thought objectivism"!! retention and protention: = 3.1 Meaning and object Nachgewahren, Urdoxa, = 3.2 Philosophy of logic and phenomenological description, eidetic mathematics resco = 4 Husserl and psychologism iinflucacea) Influenced = 4.1 Philosophy of arithmetic and Frege