  Adolf Reinach was born into a prominent Jewish family in Mainz, Germany in 1883. He began his university studies in Munich in 1901, where he studied law, psychology and philosophy. In 1905 he completed his doctorate under the direction of Theodor Lipps with a dissertation entitled, “On the Concept of Causality in the Criminal Code.” During this time, Reinach joined a circle of philosophers who had studied Husserl's recently published Logical Investigations (1900–01), a circle which included Johannes Daubert, Alexander Pfänder, Theodor Conrad, and Moritz Geiger. In 1909 Reinach moved to Göttingen, where he completed his Habilitation under Husserl's sponsorship.