What is Edmund Husserl?
{{Infobox philosopher | region = Western Philosophy | era = [[20th-century philosophy]] | image = Edmund Husserl 1910s.jpg | caption = Husserl c. 1910s | name = Edmund Husserl | birth_date = 8 April 1859 | birth_place = [[Prostějov|Proßnitz]], [[Margraviate of Moravia]], [[Austrian Empire]] (present-day [[Prostějov]], [[Czech Republic]]) | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1938|04|27|1859|04|08}} | death_place = [[Freiburg]], [[Nazi Germany|Germany]] | alma_mater = [[University of Vienna]] (PhD, 1881)<br>[[Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg|University of Halle]] ([[Priv.-Doz.]], 1887) | institutions = | school_tradition = [[Phenomenology (philosophy)|Phenomenology]] | main_interests = | influences = | influenced = | notable_ideas = }} '''Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl''' ({{IPA2|ˈhʊsɛrl}}; April 8, 1859, [[Prostějov]], [[Moravia]], [[Austrian Empire]] – April 26, 1938, [[Freiburg]], Germany) was an Austrian-German [[philosophy|philosopher]] and [[mathematician]] who is deemed the founder of [[phenomenology]]. He broke with the [[Positivism|positivist]] orientation of the [[science and philosophy]] of his time, believing that [[experience]] is the source of all [[knowledge]]. Husserl studied [[mathematics]] under [[Karl Weierstraß]], completing a [[Ph.D.]] under [[Leo Königsberger]], and studied [[philosophy]] under [[Franz Brentano]] and [[Carl Stumpf]]. Then Husserl taught philosophy, as a ''Privatdozent'' at [[Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg|Halle]] from 1887, and as a [[professor]]: * first at [[Göttingen]] from 1901, * then at [[Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg|Freiburg im Breisgau]] from 1916 until his 1928 retirement. ==Biography== Husserl was born into a [[Jew]]ish family in a town that was then in the [[Austrian Empire]] (after 1918 a part of [[Czechoslovakia]], and since 1993 a part of the [[Czech Republic]]). He became a member of the [[Lutheranism|Lutheran Church]] in 1886. He initially studied [[mathematics]] but then started attending lectures