Tag: Edith Stein

Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) was the founder of one of the most important philosophical movements of the 20th century, namely, Phenomenology. He was born in Proßnitz in the Margraviate of Moravia in the Austrian Empire (today Prostějov in the Czech Republic) to Jewish parents, and his initial academic pursuits were in physics and mathematics. Indeed, his…