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Born
Husserl was born in Prossnitz (Moravia.) -
Education
In the years 1876–78 Husserl studied astronomy in Leipzig, where he also attended courses of lectures in mathematics, physics and philosophy. He also heard Wilhelm Wundt's lectures on philosophy. Husserl's mentor was Thomas Masaryk, a former student of Brentano's, who later became the first president of Czechoslovakia. -
Continued education
In 1878–81 Husserl continued his studies in mathematics, physics and philosophy in Berlin. His mathematics teachers there included Leopold Kronecker and Karl Weierstrass, whose scientific ethos Husserl was particularly impressed with. -
Monograph
In 1891, Husserl published Philosophy of Arithmetic. This sharply attacked psychologism and developed the philosophical method he is nowadays famous for: phenomenology. -
Phenomenological
In 1900/01 his first phenomenological work was published in two volumes, titled Logical Investigations. -
Associate professorship
From 1910/11 and 1913, respectively, he served as founding (co-)editor of Logos and of the Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Research. -
Philosophical discoveries
The transcendental-phenomenological method, the phenomenological structure of time-consciousness, the fundamental role of the notion of intersubjectivity in our conceptual system, the horizon-structure of our singular empirical thought, and more. -
After WWI
In 1935 he gave a series of invited lectures in Prague, resulting in his last major work, The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology. -
Death
Edmund Husserl died on April 27, 1938 in Freiburg. His manuscripts, more than 40000 pages, were rescued and taken to Leuven (Belgium), where the first Husserl archive was founded in 1939.