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Edmund Husserl

1859 - 1938

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Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl (Austrian German: [ˈɛdmʊnd ˈhʊsɐl]; 8 April 1859 – 27 April 1938) was an Austrian-German philosopher and mathematician 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 redefined phenomenology as a transcendental-idealist philosophy. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Edmund Husserl is the 75th most popular philosopher (down from 65th in 2019), the 16th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 14th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Czech Philosopher.

Edmund Husserl is most famous for his work in phenomenology, which is the study of the structures of consciousness.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Edmund Husserl ranks 75 out of 1,267. Before him are Gorgias, Ibn Arabi, Nagarjuna, Pliny the Elder, Peter Abelard, and Leucippus. After him are Al-Kindi, Nicholas of Cusa, Rudolf Steiner, Gregory of Nazianzus, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, and Karl Jaspers.

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Among people born in 1859, Edmund Husserl ranks 7. Before him are Wilhelm II, German Emperor, Pierre Curie, Arthur Conan Doyle, Henri Bergson, L. L. Zamenhof, and Knut Hamsun. After him are Svante Arrhenius, John Dewey, Georges Seurat, Alfred Dreyfus, Yuan Shikai, and Billy the Kid. Among people deceased in 1938, Edmund Husserl ranks 3. Before him are Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, and Muhammad Iqbal. After him are Maud of Wales, Charles Édouard Guillaume, Karel Čapek, Konstantin Stanislavski, Marie of Romania, Georges Méliès, Mary Mallon, Faustina Kowalska, and Nikolai Bukharin.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Edmund Husserl ranks 16 out of 1,200. Before him are Bedřich Smetana (1824), Milan Kundera (1929), Oskar Schindler (1908), Alphonse Mucha (1860), Václav Havel (1936), and Rainer Maria Rilke (1875). After him are Jan Žižka (1360), Bertha von Suttner (1843), Kurt Gödel (1906), Wilhelm Steinitz (1836), John of Nepomuk (1350), and Ferdinand Porsche (1875).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Czechia

Among philosophers born in Czechia, Edmund Husserl ranks 2. Before him are John Amos Comenius (1592). After him are Hans Kelsen (1881), Bernard Bolzano (1781), Karl Kautsky (1854), Jerome of Prague (1379), Jan Patočka (1907), Vilém Flusser (1920), Karel Kosík (1926), František Tomášek (1899), Tomáš Halík (1948), and Theodor Gomperz (1832).

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