Heinrich Gomperz

Heinrich Gomperz (born January 18, 1873 in Vienna , † December 27, 1942 in Los Angeles ) was an Austrian philosopher . He was a son of the philosopher and philologist Theodor Gomperz .

Life

Gomperz studied law at the University of Vienna from 1891 . In the meantime he heard church history from Adolf Harnack in Berlin . Afterwards he studied classical philology and philosophy again in Vienna . He received his doctorate in 1896 with Ernst Mach on the subject of the psychology of logical basic facts . The habilitation took place in Bern in 1900 with the topic The world as an organized event .

From 1905 on he worked as a private lecturer in Vienna until he took a position as associate professor in 1920 and from 1924 to 1934 as full professor of philosophy with a focus on the history of ancient philosophy . During this time he was in contact with the Vienna Circle . Gomperz is considered to be a late exponent of empirical criticism .

After the Austro- fascist seizure of power, he refused to join the Fatherland Front and was then forced to retire under the newly enacted dismantling law. In 1935 he emigrated to the USA with the help of FCS Schiller , where he held a visiting professorship at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles until his death. In Karl Kraus ' " The Last Days of Mankind ", Gomperz is mentioned as a guest in scene 0/3 of the prelude (in Café Pucher).

He was married to Ada Gomperz.

Fonts

Foundation of the New Socratic philosophy. 1897
Critique of Hedonism. 1898
Weltanschauung. 2 vols. 1905/1908
The problem of free will. 1907
Sophistry and rhetoric. 1912
Philosophy of War in Outlines. 1915
Psychological reflections on Greek philosophers. 1924
Indian theosophy. 1925
About meaning and meaning, explaining and understanding. 1929
Philosophical Studies. 1953

literature

Jürgen von Kempski: Gomperz, Heinrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 640 f. ( Digitized version ).
Martin Seiler & Friedrich Stadler (Eds.): Heinrich Gomperz, Karl Popper and the "Austrian Philosophy". Rodopi, Amsterdam 1994, ISBN 978-9051836325
Heinrich Gomperz. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1959, p. 30 f. (Direct links on p. 30 , p. 31 ).
Utz Maas : Persecution and emigration of German-speaking linguists 1933-1945. Entry Heinrich Gomberz (accessed: April 13, 2018)

Web links

Wikisource: Heinrich Gomperz - Sources and full texts

Literature by and about Heinrich Gomperz in the catalog of the German National Library
Entry on Heinrich Gomperz in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
Science and Action - archive.org (PDF; 2 MB)

supporting documents

↑ Brigitte Lichtenberger-Fenz (2004): Austria's universities from 1930 to 1945. In: Friedrich Stadler: Continuity and break. 1938-1945-1955. Pp. 69-82.

personal data
SURNAME	Gomperz, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH	January 18, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna
DATE OF DEATH	December 27, 1942
Place of death	los Angeles

[1] Brigitte Lichtenberger-Fenz (2004): Austria's universities from 1930 to 1945. In: Friedrich Stadler: Continuity and break. 1938-1945-1955. Pp. 69-82.