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Descriptive psychology (Brentano)

Franz Brentano
Franz Brentano portrait.jpg
Born 16 January 1838
Marienberg am Rhein (),
Rhine Province, Prussia
Died 17 March 1917 (1917-03-18) (aged 79)
Zürich, Switzerland
Alma mater University of Munich
University of Berlin
University of Münster
University of Tübingen
(PhD, 1862)
University of Würzburg
(Dr.hab., 1866)
Era 19th-century philosophy
Region Western Philosophy
School School of Brentano
Intentionalism ("act psychology")
Empirical psychology
Austrian phenomenology
Austrian Realism
Institutions University of Würzburg
(1866–1873)
University of Vienna
(1873–1895)
Main interests
Ontology
Psychology
Notable ideas
Intentionality,
intentional object,
distinction between genetic and empirical/descriptive psychology,
the judgement–predication distinction,
time-consciousness
Franz Brentano
Theses
Doctoral advisor Franz Jakob Clemens
(PhD adv.)
Other academic advisors Adolf Trendelenburg
Notable students Sigmund Freud
Alexius Meinong
Kazimierz Twardowski

Franz Clemens Honoratus Hermann Brentano (/brɛnˈtɑːn/; German: [bʀɛnˈtaːno]; 16 January 1838 – 17 March 1917) was an influential German philosopher, psychologist, and priest whose work strongly influenced not only students Edmund Husserl, Sigmund Freud, Tomáš Masaryk, Rudolf Steiner, Alexius Meinong, Carl Stumpf, Anton Marty, Kazimierz Twardowski, and Christian von Ehrenfels, but many others whose work would follow and make use of his original ideas and concepts.

Brentano was born at Marienberg am Rhein (), near Boppard. He was the son of Christian Brentano, the brother of Lujo Brentano, and the nephew of Clemens Brentano and Bettina von Arnim. He studied philosophy at the universities of Munich, Würzburg, Berlin (with Adolf Trendelenburg) and Münster. He had a special interest in Aristotle and scholastic philosophy. He wrote his dissertation in 1862 at Tübingen under the title Von der mannigfachen Bedeutung des Seienden nach Aristoteles (On the Several Senses of Being in Aristotle). His thesis advisor was Franz Jakob Clemens. Subsequently he began to study theology and entered the seminary in Munich and then Würzburg. He was ordained a Catholic priest on 6 August 1864.


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