Edmund Husserl

Edmund Husserl
Husserl c. 1910s
Born	8 April 1859 Proßnitz, Margraviate of Moravia, Austrian Empire (present-day Prostějov, Czech Republic)
Died	27 April 1938(1938-04-27) (aged 79) Freiburg, Germany
Alma mater	Leipzig University (1876–78) University of Berlin (1878–81) University of Vienna (1881–83, 1884–86; PhD, 1883) University of Halle (1886–87; Dr.hab., 1887)
Era	20th-century philosophy
Region	Western Philosophy
School	Phenomenology Transcendental constitutive phenomenology (1910s) Genetic phenomenology (1920s–30s) Logical objectivism Austrian Realism (early)
Institutions	University of Halle University of Göttingen University of Freiburg
Main interests	Epistemology, ontology, philosophy of mathematics
Notable ideas	Phenomenology, epoché (also bracketing, transcendental reduction, or phenomenological reduction), eidetic reduction, natural standpoint, noema, noesis, hyletic data,phenomenological reduction, retention and protention, Lebenswelt (life world), pre-reflective self-consciousness,transcendental subjectivism, criticism of "physicalist objectivism,"retention and protention, Nachgewahren, Urdoxa, phenomenological description
Influences Franz Brentano, Carl Stumpf, Karl Weierstrass, Bernard Bolzano, Benno Kerry,René Descartes, Immanuel Kant, David Hume, Hermann Lotze, Wilhelm Windelband,Heinrich Rickert,Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Plato
Influenced Max Scheler, Martin Heidegger, Adolf Reinach, Edith Stein, Emmanuel Levinas, Jean-Paul Sartre, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Alfred Schutz, Roman Ingarden, Paul Ricœur, Kurt Gödel, John Paul II, Rudolf Carnap, Jacques Derrida, Leszek Kołakowski, José Ortega y Gasset, Eugen Fink, Hans Blumenberg, Bernard Stiegler, Ludwig Landgrebe, Marvin Farber, Jan Patočka, Dallas Willard, Shaun Gallagher, Dan Zahavi, Nader El-Bizri, Hans Köchler, Hermann Weyl, Gabriel Marcel, Rudolf Carnap, Wilfrid Sellars,Hilary Putnam,Gilbert Ryle

Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl (/ˈhʊsərl/;German: [ˈhʊsɐl]; 8 April 1859 – 27 April 1938) was a Germanphilosopher who established the school of phenomenology. In his early work, he elaborated critiques of historicism and of psychologism in logic based on analyses of intentionality. In his mature work, he sought to develop a systematic foundational science based on the so-called phenomenological reduction. Arguing that transcendental consciousness sets the limits of all possible knowledge, Husserl re-defined phenomenology as a transcendental-idealist philosophy. Husserl's thought profoundly influenced the landscape of twentieth-century philosophy, and he remains a notable figure in contemporary philosophy and beyond.

Husserl studied mathematics under Karl Weierstrass and Leo Königsberger, and philosophy under Franz Brentano and Carl Stumpf. He taught philosophy as a Privatdozent at Halle from 1887, then as professor, first at Göttingen from 1901, then at Freiburg from 1916 until he retired in 1928, after which he remained highly productive. Following an illness, he died at Freiburg in 1938.