Felix Kaufmann

Felix Kaufmann (born July 4, 1895 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died December 23, 1949 in New York ) was an Austrian-American legal philosopher.

Life

Kaufmann studied law and philosophy in Vienna. From 1922 to 1938 he worked as a private lecturer in legal philosophy in Vienna. Felix Kaufmann was a member of the Vienna Circle . In 1938 the situation became too difficult for the Jewish scientist. He emigrated to the USA , where he taught until his death as a professor of legal philosophy at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research .

Fonts (selection)

• Logic and Law , 1922
• The Criteria of Law , 1924
• The infinite in mathematics and its elimination , 1930
• Methodology of the Social Sciences , 1936

literature

• Merchant Felix. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 3, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1965, p. 270 f. (Direct links on p. 270 , p. 271 ).
• Ernst Helmstädter : Merchant, Felix. In: Harald Hagemann , Claus-Dieter Krohn (Hrsg.): Biographical manual of the German-speaking economic emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Adler – Lehmann. Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11284-X , p. 313f.
• Hans Kristoferitsch / Andreas Orator: Felix Kaufmann . In: Robert Walter / Alfred Schramm: The circle around Hans Kelsen. The early years of pure legal theory , Vienna: Manz 2008 (series of the Hans-Kelsen-Institut; 30), ISBN 978-3-214-07676-4 , pp. 153-174.

Web links

• Felix Kaufmann in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
• Literature by and about Felix Kaufmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Felix Kaufmann  in the German Digital Library
• Short biography (Research Center and Documentation Center for Austrian Philosophy) ( Memento from December 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )