Ludwig Landgrebe (9 March 1902,

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– 14 August 1991,

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) was an Austrian phenomenologist and Professor of philosophy. He is the grandfather of award-winning German actor Max Landgrebe.

Life

Landgrebe studied philosophy, history and geography in

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. Influenced by

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, he continued his studies in

Freiburg Freiburg im Breisgau (; abbreviated as Freiburg i. Br. or Freiburg i. B.; Low Alemannic: ''Friburg im Brisgau''), commonly referred to as Freiburg, is an independent city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. With a population of about 230,000 (as o ...

. In 1923 Landgrebe became assistant to

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(1859-1938). After the approval of his doctoral dissertation, Landgrebe transferred to

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for his postdoctoral qualification under

Oskar Kraus Oskar Kraus (24 July 1872 – 26 September 1942) was a Czech philosopher and jurist. Life Oskar Kraus, who converted from the Jewish to the Protestant faith, was born in Prague, the son of Hermann Kraus and Clara Reitler-Eidlitz. In 1899 he mar ...

. From 1939 he collaborated with

Eugen Fink Eugen Fink (11 December 1905 – 25 July 1975) was a German philosopher. Biography Fink was born in 1905 as the son of a government official in Germany. He spent his first school years with an uncle who was a Catholic priest. Fink attended a gra ...

at the Husserl-Archives in

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. Landgrebe's wife, Ilse Maria Goldschmidt, was of Jewish ancestry and sister of the writer

Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt (born 2 May 1928) is a French writer and translator of German origin. Biography Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt was born in Reinbek near Hamburg, into a Jewish family of magistrates converted to Protestantism. His fat ...

. In 1940 Landgrebe was deported to Belgium. He worked part-time as a merchant assistant in Hamburg. In 1945 Landgrebe had his post-doctorate reapproved in

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, and he was made ordinary professor in 1947 in

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, where

Hans Blumenberg Hans Blumenberg (born 13 July 1920, Lübeck – 28 March 1996, Altenberge) was a German philosopher and intellectual historian. He studied philosophy, German studies and the classics (1939–47, interrupted by World War II) and is considered to ...

was one of his students. In 1954 he transferred to

, and become director of the Husserl-Archives there. Landgrebe is known as one of Husserl's closest associates, but also for his independent views relating to the subjects of history, religion and politics, as seen from the viewpoints of existentialist philosophy and

metaphysics Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that studies the fundamental nature of reality, the first principles of being, identity and change, space and time, causality, necessity, and possibility. It includes questions about the nature of conscio ...

Works

*''Wilhelm Diltheys Theorie der Geisteswissenschaften'', Halle 1928 (Dissertation) *''Nennfunktion und Wortbedeutung''. Eine Studie über Martys Sprachphilosophie, Halle 1934 *''Was bedeutet uns heute Philosophie'', Hamburg 1948 (2. Aufl. 1954) *''Phänomenologie und Metaphysik'', Hamburg 1949 (Aufsatzsammlung) *''Philosophie der Gegenwart'', Bonn 1952 (2. Aufl. Frankfurt/M 1957) *''Der Weg der Phänomenologie'', Gütersloh 1963 (4. Aufl. 1978) *''Phänomenologie und Geschichte'', Gütersloh 1968 *''Über einige Grundfragen der Philosophie der Politik'', Köln/Opladen 1969 *''Faktizität und Individuation''. Studien zu den Grundfragen der Phänomenologie, Hamburg 1982 (Bibliographie S. 157 - 162)

English translations

*''Major Problems in Contemporary European Philosophy, from Dilthey to Heidegger'', New York, F. Ungar Pub. Co. 1966 (translation of ''Philosophie der Gegenwart'') *''The Phenomenology of Edmund Husserl. Six Essays'' edited, with an introduction by Donn Welton Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1981

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Landgrebe, Ludwig 1902 births 1991 deaths Writers from Vienna University of Vienna alumni University of Freiburg alumni 20th-century Austrian philosophers Continental philosophers Phenomenologists University of Kiel faculty