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Early Life
Born in Australia, Hungary. Karl was educated in the University of Vienna. Karl had a Lutheran upbringing. Popper was enticed with political and economic ideas at a young age. He soon gravitated Marxism in 1919 but soon abandoned the ideology. Popper then taught in a secondary school in 1930 while publishing his first book called Logik der Forschung (The Logic of Scientific Discovery), in 1934 that focused on falsifiability. -
Career
In 1937 Karl Popper emigrated to New Zealand because of his Jewish origins. There he was a lecturer in philosophy at Canterbury University College. He soon became a professor in London School of Economics, in 1949. Karl was also president of the Aristotelian Society from 1958 to 1959. By the time Karl retired he had already been knighted by Elisabeth ll, received the Lippincott Award of the American Political Science Association, the Sonning Prize, and had many fellowships. -
Autobiography
In 1976 Karl wrote a book titled "Unended Quest": An Intellectual Autobiography. In this great book he covered childhood memories, influencers, the first world war, etc. This book is truly about his whole life and talks about many different ideas while trying to find the truth. The most important part in the book I believe, is when he acknowledged his philosophical failure in science. Though this did not stop him from pressed on in his studies in order to find the truth. -
Death
On September 17, of 1994 Karl Popper lost his battle to pneumonia, cancer, and kidney failure. He had died at a hospital in London. Sadly enough his wife, Joesfine, died before him in 1985 with having no children. Though before his death, Popper managed to publish "The Open Society and Its Enemies," published in 1945 and "The Poverty of Historicism," in 1957. Both books having attacks on Marxism. The very philosophy he grew up believing in. -
Video about Poppers philosophy
(Youtube video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X8Xfl0JdTQ
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References:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/popper/#ScieKnowHistPred
https://kids.kiddle.co/Karl_Popper
https://blog.oup.com/2017/08/sir-karl-raimund-popper-timeline-philosophy/
https://www.simplypsychology.org/Karl-Popper.html
https://books.google.com/books/about/Unended_Quest.html?id=jwcQAQAAIAAJ
