Husserl, Edmund(1859–1938) Edmund Husserl (1859–1938), the founding figure of the philosophical movement known as phenomenology, was born in Prossnitz in Mähren, then part of the Hapsburg Austro-Hungarian Empire but now...

(born April 8, 1859, Prossnitz, Moravia, Austrian Empire [now Prost&ehacek;jov, Czech Republic]—died April 27, 1938, Freiburg im Breisgau, Ger.) German philosopher, the founder of Phenomenology, a method for the description and analysis of...

HUSSERL, EDMUND (1859–1938), German philosopher, founder and central figure in the twentieth-century philosophical movement or approach known as phenomenology. Born in Prossnitz (Prostejov), Moravia, Husserl studied at the universities of...

Born in Prossnitz, Moravia (now Prostêjov, Czech Republic) on April 8, Edmund Husserl (1859–1938) inaugurated the phenomenological movement in philosophy. Trained as a mathematician at Vienna, where he received his Ph.D. in 1883, Husserl...

(born April 8, 1859, Prossnitz, Moravia, Austrian Empire—died April 27, 1938, Freiburg im Breisgau, Ger.) German philosopher, founder of phenomenology. He received a doctoral degree in mathematics at the University of Vienna in 1882. From 1883 to...

. 1859–1938. Born in Moravia, he spent his life teaching in German universities. He is usually regarded as the leading figure in PHENOMENOLOGY, which took two successive forms in his own work, descriptive and transcendental. His early work (1891)...

Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl (April 8 1859 – April 26 1938) was a philosopher, known as the father of phenomenology. His work was a break with the purely positivist orientation and understanding of the science and philosophy of his day, giving...