Heinrich Gomperz
Heinrich Gomperz (January 18, 1873 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary – December 27, 1942 in Los Angeles, California) was an Austrian philosopher.
Life
A son of Theodor Gomperz, he studied law at the University of Vienna from 1891. In the meantime, he studied church history with Adolf Harnack in Berlin. He then returned to Vienna to study classical philology and philosophy. He obtained his doctorate in 1896 under Ernst Mach with the topic Zur Psychologie der logischen Grundtatsachen. His habilitation took place in Bern in 1900 with the topic The World as an Ordered Event.
From 1905, he worked in Vienna as a private lecturer until he was appointed associate professor in 1920 and full professor of philosophy from 1924 to 1934, specializing in the history of ancient philosophy. During this time, he was associated with the Vienna Circle. Gomperz is considered a late representative of empirio-criticism.[1]
After Austria merged with the German Reich in the Anschluss of 1938, Gomperz was persecuted due to his Jewish heritage[2] under the newly enacted Dismantling Act. In 1935, he emigrated to the USA with the help of F. C. S. Schiller, where he held a visiting professorship at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles until his death. In Karl Kraus' Die letzten Tage der Menschheit, Gomperz is mentioned as a guest in scene 0/3 of the prelude (in Café Pucher).
He was married to the interior designer Adele “Ada” Stepnitz (* December 11, 1884 in Vienna[3]; died between June 12 and 15, 1954 in the Pacific off Los Angeles[4]).
He was a patient of Sigmund Freud.[5]
Works
- Kritik des Hedonismus. J.G. Cotta'schen Buchhandlung Nachfolger. 1898.
- Das Problem der Willensfreiheit. E. Diederichs. 1907.
- Weltanschauungslehre. E. Diederichs. 1905.
- Philosophie des Krieges in Umrissen. F. A. Perthes. 1915.
- Psychologische Beobachtungen an griechischen Philosophen. Internationaler psychoanalytischen Verlag. 1924.
- Die indische theosophie vom geschichtlichen standpunkt gemeinverständlich dargestellt. E. Diederichs. 1925.
- Über Sinn und Sinngebilde, Verstehen und Erklären. Mohr. 1929.
- Heinrich Gomperz, Daniel Robinson (1953). Philosophical Studies. Christopher Pub. House.
External links
- Short biography in the Österreich-Lexikon. (German, English)
- Article in philosophenlexikon.de at the Wayback Machine (archived August 20, 2006) (German)
- Collected correspondence of Austrian scholars Theodor Gomperz and his son Heinrich
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- ^ "Heinrich Gomperz. In: Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Band 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien 1959" (PDF). pp. 30–31.
- ^ Brigitte Lichtenberger-Fenz (2004): Österreichs Universitäten 1930 bis 1945. In: Friedrich Stadler: Kontinuität und Bruch. 1938 - 1945 - 1955. p. 69–82.
- ^ Korotin, Ilse Erika, ed. (2016). BiografiA: Lexikon österreichischer Frauen. Wien: Böhlau Verlag. ISBN 978-3-205-79590-2.
- ^ Los Angeles Evening Citizen News, 15. Juni 1954, p. 9.
- ^ "Sigmund Freud et Theodor Gomperz".