Heinrich Gomperz
{{Short description|Austrian philosopher (1873–1942)}}
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Heinrich Gomperz ({{IPA|de-AT|ˈɡɔmpɐts|lang}}; January 18, 1873, Vienna, Austria-Hungary – December 27, 1942, 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.{{Cite web |title=Heinrich Gomperz. In: Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Band 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien 1959 |url=https://www.biographien.ac.at/oebl_2/30.pdf |pages=30–31}}
After Austria merged with the German Reich in the Anschluss of 1938, Gomperz was persecuted due to his Jewish heritageBrigitte Lichtenberger-Fenz (2004): Österreichs Universitäten 1930 bis 1945. In: Friedrich Stadler: Kontinuität und Bruch. 1938 - 1945 - 1955. p. 69–82. 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;{{Cite book |title=BiografiA: Lexikon österreichischer Frauen |date=2016 |publisher=Böhlau Verlag |isbn=978-3-205-79590-2 |editor-last=Korotin |editor-first=Ilse Erika |location=Wien}} died between June 12 and 15, 1954 in the Pacific off Los AngelesLos Angeles Evening Citizen News, 15. Juni 1954, p. 9.).
He was a patient of Sigmund Freud.{{Cite web |title=Sigmund Freud et Theodor Gomperz |url=https://shs.cairn.info/article/ESS_007_0203/pdf?lang=fr&ID_ARTICLE=ESS_007_0203&download=1}}
Works
- {{cite book
|title=Kritik des Hedonismus
|year=1898
|publisher=J.G. Cotta'schen Buchhandlung Nachfolger
|isbn=
|url=https://archive.org/details/kritikdeshedoni00gompgoog
}}
- {{cite book
|title=Das Problem der Willensfreiheit
|year=1907
|publisher=E. Diederichs
|isbn=
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rtZDAAAAIAAJ
}}
- {{cite book
|title=Weltanschauungslehre
|year=1905
|publisher=E. Diederichs
|isbn=
|url=https://archive.org/details/weltanschauungs01gompgoog
}}
- {{cite book
|title=Philosophie des Krieges in Umrissen
|year=1915
|publisher=F. A. Perthes
|isbn=
|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_d8hBAAAAIAAJ
}}
- {{cite book
|title=Psychologische Beobachtungen an griechischen Philosophen
|year=1924
|publisher=Internationaler psychoanalytischen Verlag
|isbn=
|url=https://archive.org/details/psychologischebe0000gomp
}}
- {{cite book
|title=Die indische theosophie vom geschichtlichen standpunkt gemeinverständlich dargestellt
|year=1925
|publisher=E. Diederichs
|isbn=
|url=https://archive.org/details/dieindischetheos0000gomp
}}
- {{cite book
|title=Über Sinn und Sinngebilde, Verstehen und Erklären
|year=1929
|publisher=Mohr
|isbn=
|url=https://archive.org/details/bersinnundsinn00gomp
}}
- {{cite book
|title=Philosophical Studies
|author=Heinrich Gomperz, Daniel Robinson
|year=1953
|publisher=Christopher Pub. House
|isbn=
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ox81AAAAIAAJ
}}
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20060820014742/http://www.philosophenlexikon.de/gomperz.htm Short biography in the Österreich-Lexikon.] (German, English)
- {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060820014742/http://www.philosophenlexikon.de/gomperz.htm |date=August 20, 2006 |title=Article in philosophenlexikon.de }} (German)
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070321191601/http://www.usc.edu/libraries/archives/arc/libraries/collections/records/186home.html Collected correspondence of Austrian scholars Theodor Gomperz and his son Heinrich]
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Category:20th-century Austrian philosophers
Category:Emigrants from Austria-Hungary to the United States
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