Edmund Husserl was a 20th century German philosopher, who is most famous for his ideas on phenomenology and his conception of the reduction of reality. He was born in Moravia, Austria-Hungary, the son of a luthier. He studied mathematics and physics at the University of Vienna from 1896 to 1900, receiving his doctorate in mathematics with a dissertation on the axiomatic foundations of geometry in 1901. In 1905 he became a lecturer at the University of Freiburg, where he remained until 1918
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In 1918 he became a Privatdozent at the University of Munich. In 1922 Husserl founded with Max Scheler and Martin Heidegger one of three schools of phenomenology known as the Munich School. In 1923 Husserl became a professor at Freiburg as successor to Scheler, but retired due to poor health in 1929.
He died in Freiburg on April 26, 1938.