 This group of scholars gave itself an institutional form when Conrad and von Sybel founded the Philosophical Society of Göttingen in 1907. The pivotal center of this new circle of phenomenology was Adolf Reinach, who taught at the local university after receiving his habilitation to teach at university level (the venia legendi) in 1909. Reinach’s philosophical and didactic skills were so admired that several members referred to him, and not Husserl, as their teacher in phenomenology (Conrad-Martius 1921; Ingarden 1968 [1998: 408f]; Stein 1965: 195; von Hildebrand 1975: 78).