Ludwig Landgrebe (9 March 1902,

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– 14 August 1991,

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) was an Austrian phenomenologist and Professor of philosophy. He is the grandfather of award-winning German actor Max Landgrebe.

Life

Landgrebe studied philosophy, history and geography in

. Influenced by

Max Scheler Max Ferdinand Scheler (; 22 August 1874 – 19 May 1928) was a German philosopher known for his work in phenomenology, ethics, and philosophical anthropology. Considered in his lifetime one of the most prominent German philosophers,Davis, Zacha ...

, he continued his studies in

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. In 1923 Landgrebe became assistant to

Edmund Husserl Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl (; 8 April 1859 – 27 April 1938) was an Austrian-German philosopher and mathematician who established the school of Phenomenology (philosophy), phenomenology. In his early work, he elaborated critiques of histori ...

(1859-1938). After the approval of his doctoral dissertation, Landgrebe transferred to

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for his postdoctoral qualification under Oskar Kraus. From 1939 he collaborated with Eugen Fink at the Husserl-Archives in

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. Landgrebe's wife, Ilse Maria Goldschmidt, was of Jewish ancestry and sister of the writer Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt. In 1940 Landgrebe was deported to Belgium. He worked part-time as a merchant assistant in Hamburg. In 1945 Landgrebe had his post-doctorate reapproved in

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, and he was made ordinary professor in 1947 in

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, where

Hans Blumenberg Hans Blumenberg (; 13 July 1920, Lübeck – 28 March 1996, Altenberge) was a German philosopher and intellectual historian. He studied philosophy, German studies and the classics (1939–47, interrupted by World War II) and is considered to be o ...

was one of his students. In 1954 he transferred to

, and become director of the Husserl-Archives there. Landgrebe is known as one of Husserl's closest associates, but also for his independent views relating to the subjects of history, religion and politics, as seen from the viewpoints of existentialist philosophy and

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Works

*''Wilhelm Diltheys Theorie der Geisteswissenschaften'', Halle 1928 (Dissertation) *''Nennfunktion und Wortbedeutung''. Eine Studie über Martys Sprachphilosophie, Halle 1934 *''Was bedeutet uns heute Philosophie'', Hamburg 1948 (2. Aufl. 1954) *''Phänomenologie und Metaphysik'', Hamburg 1949 (Aufsatzsammlung) *''Philosophie der Gegenwart'', Bonn 1952 (2. Aufl. Frankfurt/M 1957) *''Der Weg der Phänomenologie'', Gütersloh 1963 (4. Aufl. 1978) *''Phänomenologie und Geschichte'', Gütersloh 1968 *''Über einige Grundfragen der Philosophie der Politik'', Köln/Opladen 1969 *''Faktizität und Individuation''. Studien zu den Grundfragen der Phänomenologie, Hamburg 1982 (Bibliographie S. 157 - 162)

English translations

*''Major Problems in Contemporary European Philosophy, from Dilthey to Heidegger'', New York, F. Ungar Pub. Co. 1966 (translation of ''Philosophie der Gegenwart'') *''The Phenomenology of Edmund Husserl. Six Essays'' edited, with an introduction by Donn Welton Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1981

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Landgrebe, Ludwig 1902 births 1991 deaths Writers from Vienna University of Vienna alumni University of Freiburg alumni 20th-century Austrian philosophers Phenomenologists Academic staff of the University of Kiel