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The philosopher Edmund Husserl was born in Proßnitz, Moravia (Prostějov, Czech Republic) in 1859; he died in Freiburg i.Br. in 1938.

“Edmund Husserl was the principal founder of phenomenology—and thus one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th century. He has made important contributions to almost all areas of philosophy and anticipated central ideas of its neighbouring disciplines such as linguistics, sociology and cognitive psychology.” [Source: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy]

The legal scholar Gerhart Husserl was born in Halle in 1893, the oldest son of philosopher Edmund Husserl. Gerhart Husserl taught at the University of Washington in the United States from 1940 to 1948, returning to Freiburg i.Br. where he died in 1973.

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Edmund Husserl : with his son Gerhart, April 1929, Leo Baeck Institute, F 2895.