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Where was Edmund born?
Edmund Husserl was born in Prossnitz, Moravia, he and his spouse converted to Protestantism and had three children, one of whom died during World War I. -
1876-1878
They studied astronomy and attended lectures on math, physics, and philosophy in Leipzig. They were mentored by Thomas Masaryk and heard lectures from Wilhelm Wundt. -
1878–1881
His PhD in mathematics was in Vienna in 1883. He then studied philosophy with Brentano from 1884 to 1886, who was an influential philosopher he greatly respected. -
1884–1886
Husserl was influenced by Brentano's scientific approach to philosophy and was introduced to Stumpf, who helped him with his habilitation dissertation on the concept of numbers. -
1891
Husserl's Philosophy of Arithmetic faced criticism from Frege for psychologism. Husserl took the criticism seriously and developed the phenomenological method in response. -
1900
Husserl's early work criticized psychologism. His second volume explored intentionality and truth, influenced by Lotze and Bolzano. No mention of the internet in his work. -
1901
Husserl developed his ideas in Göttingen and received an associate professorship with the support of Wilhelm Dilthey and the Prussian Ministry of Culture. -
1910-1913
He created Logos and the Yearbook for Phenomenology, criticized naturalism in "Philosophy as a Rigorous Science," and stayed in Göttingen until 1916. -
1916
Husserl was a professor in Freiburg/Breisgau and worked on passive synthesis, giving four lectures on Phenomenological Method and Philosophy at University College, London in 1922. -
1928
Heidegger succeeded Husserl and published "Being and Time" in his Yearbook in 1927. Husserl then retired -
1929
After receiving an invitation to Paris, he agreed to attend. The lectures he delivered during his stay were later compiled and published as "Cartesian Meditations" in 1931. -
1933
The philosopher Edmund Husserl declined an invitation to move to Los Angeles when Hitler came to power in Germany. He was Jewish and feared the increasing levels of humiliation and isolation he would experience. -
1935
During his time in Prague, the individual presented a set of lectures and produced his final significant publication, titled The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology. -
April 27, 1938
Edmund Husserl passed away in Freiburg. His manuscripts, totaling more than 40000 pages, were saved by Franciscan Herman Leo Van Breda. Van Breda transported the manuscripts to Leuven, Belgium, where the first Husserl archive was established in 1939.