Arnold Metzger
Arnold Metzger (24 February 1892 – 16 August 1974) was a German philosopher.
Life[]
Metzger was born in Landau. He was a student of Edmund Husserl. Having served in World War I, and been imprisoned in Siberia, he made his way back to Germany in 1919. On the way he participated in a soldiers' soviet in Brest-Litovsk.[1]
Leaving Nazi Germany, Metzger lived in the United States for 20 years. He returned, and took up a teaching position in Munich.[2]
Metzger died in Bad Gastein, in 1974.
Works[]
- Phänomenologie und Metaphysik (1933)[2]
- Freiheit und Tod (1955), English translation (selections) by Ralph Mannheim, 1972.[3]
References[]
Notes[]
- ^ Gandt, François de (2004). Husserl et Galilée: sur la crise des sciences européennes (in French). Vrin. p. 34. ISBN 9782711617289. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Spiegelberg, E. (2012-12-06). The Phenomenological Movement: A Historical Introduction. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 249. ISBN 9789400974913. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
- ^ Bruzina, Ronald (2008-10-01). Edmund Husserl and Eugen Fink: Beginnings and Ends in Phenomenology, 1928?1938. Yale University Press. pp. 73 note 1. ISBN 9780300130157. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
Categories:
- 1892 births
- 1974 deaths
- 20th-century German philosophers
- People from Landau
- Husserl scholars
- German prisoners of war in World War I
- Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States
- Simmons College (Massachusetts) faculty
- Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich faculty
- German philosopher stubs