Kurt Grelling
_Kurt_Grelling.jpg)
_Margareta_Grelling.jpg)
Kurt Grelling (born March 2, 1886 in Berlin ; † probably September 1942 in Auschwitz concentration camp ) was a German mathematician , logician and philosopher . He was a member of the Berlin Society for Empirical Philosophy .
Life
His father was the lawyer, publicist and pacifist Richard Grelling . Kurt Grelling studied from 1905 at the University of Göttingen and translated many philosophical works from English, French and Italian into German, including four works by Bertrand Russell . Grelling worked with the philosopher Leonard Nelson on Russell's antinomy . In their joint publication published in 1908, they describe new paradoxes, especially the semantic antinomy, which they named in honor of the Grelling-Nelson antinomy .
He received his doctorate in mathematics under David Hilbert in Göttingen on The Axioms of Arithmetic with special consideration of the relationships to set theory in 1910.
From 1911 to 1922 Grelling published mainly journalistic and political articles, and after 1924 he published almost exclusively works in the field of positivist philosophy. He also translated works by Russell, such as the Analysis of Spirit (1927) and the Philosophy of Matter (1929). Grelling worked as a high school teacher as he could not find a university position. With Hans Reichenbach he organized the meetings of the Berlin Society for Empirical Philosophy . After emigrating from Reichenbach, he managed the organization of the meetings on his own. He also had contacts with the Vienna Circle . In 1936 he defended Gödel's incompleteness theorem against criticism in a publication . In 1937 he fled to Brussels , where he and Paul Oppenheim wrote several articles on the analysis of scientific explanation and gestalt psychology .
He was interned on the first day of the German invasion of Belgium , initially in France. An attempt by Paul Oppenheim and Carl Gustav Hempel to get him a visa for the United States and a job at the New School for Social Research in New York was delayed by the US immigration service. He and his wife were probably on 18 September 1942 to Auschwitz deported , although it is also alleged that he had been killed on the French-Spanish border in the 1941st
On September 13, 2008, a stumbling block was laid for Grelling in Berlin.
Publications
- The good, clear right of the friends of the anthropological critique of reason . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1907.
- Notes on the Paradoxes of Russell and Burali-Forti . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1908.
- The axioms of arithmetic with special consideration of the relations to set theory . zugl. Phil. Diss., Dieterichsche Universitäts-Buchdruckerei Göttingen, Göttingen 1910.
- Anti-J'accuse . Orell Füssli, Zurich 1916.
- Set theory . Mathematical-physical library. Volume 58. Verlag BG Teubner. Leipzig / Berlin 1924.
- Is there a Godelian antinomy? In: Theoria, 3, 1936.
Web links
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Grelling, Kurt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mathematician, logician and philosopher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 2, 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 1942 |
| Place of death | uncertain: Auschwitz concentration camp |