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Carl Friedrich Stumpf (1848-1936) is historically associated
with one of the most important philosophical trends in the early
twentieth century phenomenology. Stumpf supervised Husserl's
habilitation thesis in Halle in 1887; Husserl's seminal work on
phenomenology, Logical Investigations (1900-1901), is dedicated
to Stumpf in recognition of his friendship and his philosophical
contribution to the book. Stumpf is also known as the founder of
the Berlin Institute of Psychology, which gave birth to Gestalt
psychology, another important current during the early twentieth
century and whose main adherents were among others, his students
W. Köhler, K. Koffka, W. Wertheimer and K. Lewin. Founder of the
Phonogram Archive in Berlin, now under the protection of the
UNESCO, he is also considered as one of the initiators of
comparative musicology and a pioneer in ethnomusicology. He held
positions in the philosophy departments at the Universities of
Göttinge