H reichenbach

Hans Reichenbach (September 26, 1891 – April 9, 1953)

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  • Birth

    Hamburg, Germany

  • He joined the Freistudentenschaft

    The Freistudentschaft was a German student body established in Wilhelmine Germany in 1900. It brought together students on a liberal basis, rejecting the uniforms and other aspects of the German Student Corps. Students outside these Corps were called the "Nicht-Inkorporierten" (not-incorporated).

  • Received PhD

    University of Erlangen

  • Published his thesis for his PHD

    The Concept of Probability for the Mathematical Representation of Reality

  • Published his thesis for his Dr.

    The Theory of Relativity and A Priori Knowledge

  • Received Dr.

    University Stuttgart

  • Became assistant professor in the physics department of the University of Berlin

    With the help of Albert Einstein, Max Planck, and Max von Laue, Reichenbach became assistant professor in the physics department of the University of Berlin.

  • Founded the Gesellschaft für empirische Philosophie (Society for Empirical Philosophy) in Berlin

  • Dismissed from University of Berlin

    When Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933, Reichenbach was immediately dismissed from his appointment at the University of Berlin under the government's so-called "Race Laws" due to his Jewish ancestry. Reichenbach himself did not practice Judaism, and his mother was a German Protestant, but he nevertheless suffered problems. He thereupon emigrated to Turkey, where he headed the Department of Philosophy at Istanbul University.

  • Moved to United States

    with the help of Charles W. Morris, Reichenbach moved to the United States to take up a professorship at the University of California, Los Angeles in its Philosophy Department. Reichenbach helped establish UCLA as a leading philosophy department in the United States in the post-war period.

  • Death

    Reichenbach died unexpectedly of a heart attack on April 9, 1953. He was living in Los Angeles at the time and had been working on problems in the philosophy of time and the nature of scientific laws. As part of this, he proposed a three-part model of time in language, involving speech time, event time, and — critically — reference time, which has been used by linguists since for describing tenses.