Gerhart Adolf Husserl (December 22, 1893 – September 9, 1973) was a
German
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legal scholar
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and
philosopher. He was the son of philosopher
Edmund Husserl
, thesis1_title = Beiträge zur Variationsrechnung (Contributions to the Calculus of Variations)
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(1859–1938).
Born in
Halle,
Saxony
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, in 1893, Husserl became a Professor of Law at the
University of Kiel
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in 1926.
He was dismissed due to the
Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service in 1933, and eventually emigrated to the
United States
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. He taught at the
University of Washington
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from 1940 to 1948.
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1893 births
1973 deaths
German legal scholars
Academic staff of the University of Kiel
University of Washington faculty
Jewish philosophers
Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States
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