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Edmund Husserl

1859-1938

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German philosopher whose famous phenomenology was first written in "Elements of a Phenomenological Elucidation of Knowledge" (1901).  He distinguished phenomena, taxonomized them, and tried to establish where one phenomenon ends and another begins.

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1859 born April 8 in Moravia
1876 entered University of Leipzig
1878 went to University of Berlin to study mathematics
1883 received doctorate and remained academic post at University of Vienna until 1884 when he traveled to Vienna
1884 went to Vienna to attend Franz Brentano's lectures in philosophy
1886 went to Halle, where he studied psychology and wrote his Habilitationsschrift on the concept of number and was baptized
1887 became Privatdozent at Halle and married Malvine Charlotte Steinschneider (three children)
1891 published Philosophie der Arithmetik
1900 published first volume of Logische Untersuchungen
1901 published second volume of Logische Untersuchungen and joined the faculty at Göttingen until 1917
1916 became professor at Freiburg im Breisgau until 1928
1928 retired
1938 died of pleurisy on April 27 (Good Friday)