Anton Marty

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Anton Marty

Anton Marty (born October 18, 1847 in Schwyz , † October 1, 1914 in Prague ) was a Swiss philosopher , university professor and priest .

Life

Marty graduated from Einsiedeln Abbey School and then studied theology and philosophy in Mainz . From 1868 to 1870 he attended lectures in Würzburg with Franz Brentano , whose most loyal student and friend he became. In 1869 he became professor of philosophy at the Schwyz Cantonal School . In 1870 he was ordained a priest . In 1872 he resigned from the priesthood and left Switzerland for Göttingen . There he received his doctorate in 1875 under Rudolf Hermann Lotze with the work Critique of theories about the origin of language . In the same year he was appointed to the newly founded Franz Joseph University in Czernowitz . In 1880 he moved to the German Karl Ferdinand University in Prague. As a full professor he remained loyal to her until the end of his life. From 1895 to 1897 he was her rector twice .

Marty's linguistic-philosophical legacy is in the Bern Burger Library .

reception

Thanks to Marty, Prague became a center of Brentan philosophy. His students include Joseph Eisenmeier, Alfred Kastil, Oskar Kraus and Emil Utitz . His studies of language functions had a great influence on Karl Bühler and Edmund Husserl . Even Franz Kafka was influenced in his work by Marty: He heard during the summer semester 1902 Marty's lecture on basic questions of descriptive psychology . And Kafka regularly attended the Louvre Circle, that exclusive Brentano Circle.

Publications

  • About the origin of language. Stuber, Würzburg 1875
  • The question of the historical development of the sense of color. Gerold, Vienna 1879
  • Research into the foundations of general grammar and philosophy of language. Niemeyer, Halle on the Saale, 1908
  • To the philosophy of language. The “logical”, “localist” and other case theories. Niemeyer, Halle on the Saale 1910
  • Space and time. Edited from the estate by Josef Eisenmeier, Alfred Kastil, Oskar Kraus . Niemeyer, Halle an der Saale 1916
  • Legacy writings. Published by Otto Funke. Francke, Bern 1950
    • Psyche and language structure. Volume I.
    • Sentence and word. A critical examination of the usual grammatical teaching and its definitions. Volume II
    • About the value and method of a generally descriptive theory of meaning. Volume III
  • Descriptive Psychology. Lectures in the winter semester of 1894/1895 in Prague. Edited by Mauro Antonelli and Johann Christian Marek. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2011

literature

  • Paolo Spinicci: Brentano and Marty. Descriptive language analysis and case theories . Brentano Studies 2 (1989), ISSN  0935-7009 , pp. 103-116.
  • Kevin Mulligan (Ed.): Mind, Meaning and Metaphysics. The Philosophy and Theory of Language of Anton Marty . Kluwer, Dordrecht et al. 1990, ISBN 0-7923-0578-7 .
  • Liliana Albertazzi, Massimo Libardi, Roberto Poli (eds.): The School of Franz Brentano . Kluwer, Dordrecht et al. 1996, ISBN 0-7923-3766-2 , ( Nijhoff international philosophy series 52), Chapter II: Anton Marty (1847-1914) .
  • Robin D. Rollinger: Linguistic Expressions and Acts of Meaning: Comments on Marty's Philosophy of Language , in: Roberto Poli (ed.): The Brentano Puzzle . Ashgate et al., Aldershot et al. 1998, ISBN 1-84014-371-1 , ( Western philosophy series ), pp. 215-226.
  • Robin D. Rollinger: Philosophy of Language and Other Matters in the Work of Anton Marty: Analysis and Translation . Rodopi, Amsterdam / New York 2010, ISBN 978-90-420-3119-7 .
  • Roberto Poli: La teoria del giudizio di Franz Brentano e Anton Marty. Giudizi tetici e giudizi doppi , in: Epistemologia 21, 1998, ISSN  0392-9760 , pp. 41-59.
  • Arkadiusz Chrudzimski: Anton Marty's theory of intentionality . Grazer Philosophische Studien 62 (2001), ISSN  0165-9227 , pp. 175-214.
  • Wilhelm Baumgartner, Robin Rollinger, Dagmar Fügmann (eds.): The philosophy of Anton Martys Brentano studies 12 (2006/2009).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rector's speech on November 16, 1896 (HKM)
  2. ↑ Anton Marty's linguistic-philosophical legacy in the catalog of the Burgerbibliothek Bern
  3. ^ Klaus Wagenbach : Franz Kafka. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2008, p. 50f.
personal data
SURNAME Marty, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss priest, philosopher and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwyz
DATE OF DEATH October 1, 1914
Place of death Prague