Research and Documentation Center for Austrian Philosophy

May 27, 1879 (Meckesheim) - Oct. 24, 1963 (Los Angeles)

Short biography

Studied from 1899 onwards in Freiburg im Breisgau, Strasbourg, Berlin, Bonn, and Würzburg. 1903 Doctor of Medicine at the University of Freiburg (The Duplicity Theory of Color Perception (according to Helmholtz and von Kries)); 1904 Doctor of Philosophy under Clemens Bäumker at the University of Strasbourg (Studies on Henry Home). 1906 Assistant to Kries at the University of Freiburg. Also in 1906 assistant to Oswald Külpe at the University of Würzburg. 1907 Habilitation (Facts and Problems for a Psychology of Thought Processes); B. follows Külpe to the University of Bonn in 1909: re-habilitation. 1913 B. moves to Munich and becomes associate professor in the same year. 1914 to 1918 military service as a doctor. 1916 marriage to Charlotte Malachowski, a student of Husserl. 1918 to 1922 full professor of philosophy and education at the Dresden University of Technology. 1922 to 1938 full professor of psychology at the University of Vienna; head of the Department of Psychology. Brief imprisonment by the National Socialist regime in 1938. Emigrated to Norway in the fall of 1938; emigrated to the USA in 1940. 1940 to 1945 Professor at the College of St. Scholastica Duluth, Minnesota and St. Thomas College St. Paul, Minnesota. 1945 to 1955 Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

Index of the Bühler collection

March 25, 1878 (Graz) - Feb. 6, 1933 (Mährisch-Trübau)

Short biography

Frankl studied philosophy and classical philology in Graz; obtained his doctorate in 1903 under Meinong with the topic "The so-called principle of the economics of thought should be appreciated according to its supposed and its real meaning" (Frankl's habilitation was later rejected by Meinong, however); 1904 Supplent at the k.k. State Grammar School in Gorizia (today: Gorizia/Italy or Nova Gorica/Slovenia); 1905 assistant teacher at the Stiftsgymnasium in St. Paul im Lavanttal (Carinthia); 1906 teacher's examination (Greek and Philosophical Propaedeutics as main subjects, Latin as minor subject); from 29.8.1906 onwards provisional teacher at the k.k. Staatsgymnasium in Mährisch-Trübau (heute: Moravska Trebová); on September 1, 1925 he was assigned to the German state grammar school in Leitmeritz, in 1927 he was transferred back to the state grammar school in Moravian Trubová, but was granted leave of absence due to illness; on July 31, 1929 he was transferred into permanent retirement due to illness at his own request. F. "tirelessly promoted the cause of object theory and the logic based on it" (Meinong on his pupil).

Index of the Frankl collection

Sept. 11, 1902 (Vienna) - Feb. 15, 1987 (Vienna)

Short biography

Gabriel graduated from high school in Graz; then studied scholastic philosophy and 4 semesters of theology in Innsbruck, obtained a doctorate in scholastic philosophy in 1926, a doctorate in philosophy at the University of Vienna (dissertation under Heinrich Gomperz on Plotinus' concept of God) in 1929; teaching position (state examination in philosophy and history with M. Schlick, von Srbik and Hirsch) 1930, grammar school professor for these subjects 1932-1948; habilitation for philosophy 1947 under Alois Dempf, lecturer; 1950 associate professor, 1951 professor of philosophy at the University of Vienna (holder of Chair I and head of the II Philosophical Institute). President of the XIV International Congress of Philosophy Vienna 1968, President of the "Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie" (FISP) 1968-1973; retired in 1972; presided over the XV. International Congress of Philosophy in Varna 1973; honorary president of the FISP; full member of the "Institut International de Philosophie" (Paris); full member of the Vienna Catholic Academy; president of the "University Center for Peace Research" (Vienna); former president of the Vienna International University Courses and member of the Austrian Pen Club.

Index of the Gabriel collection

Jan. 18, 1873 (Vienna) - Dec. 27, 1942 (Los Angeles)

Short biography
Studied law at the University of Vienna from 1891. After a period of study in Berlin (studying church history under A. Harnack), returned to Vienna, where he studied classical philology and philosophy. 1896 Doctorate under Mach with the topic "On the psychology of basic logical facts". 1900 Habilitation in Bern; habilitation thesis "The world as an ordered event". Private lecturer in Bern until 1903. 1905 to 1920 private lecturer in Vienna. From 1920 associate professor there, from 1924 to 1934 full professor of philosophy ad personam. Occasional participation in the meetings of the Vienna Circle and the Schlick Circle; in the context of the "Gomperz Circle", a regular discussion group on Saturdays, contacts with philosophers such as Viktor Kraft, Rudolf Carnap, Herbert Feigl, Hans Hahn, Karl Popper and others. 1934 Forced demotion by the Federal State of Austria. 1935 Emigration to the USA through F.C.S. Schiller; visiting professor at the University of Southern California until his death.

Index of the Gomperz holdings

Apr. 27, 1929 (St. Gallen/Styria) - Feb. 14, 2014 (Graz)

Short biography

Rudolf Haller was born in St. Gallen, Styria, the son of Eugen Haller, a pensioner and painter, and Hildegard Haller, a primary school teacher. He attended grammar schools in Admont, Sonthofen, Iglau and Graz, where he graduated in 1948. At the University of Graz he studied philosophy (under K. Radakovic, A. Silva-Tarouca and R. Freundlich), sociology, history and art history and received his doctorate on February 27, 1953 with the dissertation: "Leo Schestow. A monographic and sociological consideration". From 1954-1966 he held an assistant position at the Graz Institute of Philosophy. From 1958-59 he was a recognized student of G. Ryle in Oxford. He qualified as a professor of philosophy in 1961 with his thesis "The Problem of Meaning". In 1965 he was awarded the title of Associate Professor. In 1966, he was appointed H4 professor at the Hanover University of Education, where he worked until 1968. In 1967 he was appointed full professor for basic philosophical research at the University of Graz, and from 1981 he was head of the department for basic philosophical research. From 1974-80 he was course director at the Inter-University Center of Post-Graduate Studies, Dubrovnik. In 1983, Rudolf Haller founded the Research Center for Austrian Philosophy in Graz as a non-university research institution and headed it until 1999. Through numerous stays abroad and guest professorships, Haller established important international contacts for the Graz Institute of Philosophy, which still exist today. He retired in 1997. Haller founded the journal Grazer philosophische Studien in 1975 (59 volumes published with him as editor until 2000) and the series Studien zur österreichischen Philosophie in 1979 (40 volumes under his editorship).

Pre- and posthumous papers of Rudolf Haller

Starting with separate prints and manuscripts from other sources, Rudolf Haller had already given parts of his collections to the Research Center some time ago, initially on loan. From 2011 onwards, large parts of his scientific library, the separate collection, his own manuscripts, etc. were handed over in several tranches as a bequest. Following the death of Rudolf Haller, the founder and long-time director of the FDOEP, the extremely extensive scientific correspondence (with extremely prominent partners such as H. Albert, A. J. Ayer, R. M. Chisholm, P. Feyerabend, C. G. Hempel, J. Hintikka, K. Menger, W. Sellars, H. G. v. Wright and others) to the FDÖP. The transfer of the materials has not yet been completed and further pieces are expected. Although not yet available in its entirety, the Haller bequest, with around 25 linear meters of books, 6.5 linear meters of separata, 15 linear meters of manuscripts and 8 linear meters of correspondence, represents the research center's largest collection to date and promises to be an important source for research into the recent history of philosophy.

Dec. 2, 1863 (Vienna) - April 24, 1926 (Innsbruck)

Short biography

1881 Matura at the grammar school in Kremsmünster. Studied philosophy and natural sciences in Prague and Vienna. On February 19, 1887, doctorate in Prague (dissertation under Marty: "Synechological Problems of Scholasticism"); further studies at Ewald Hering's Institute of Physiology and Ernst Mach's Institute of Physics. 1891 habilitation in philosophy at the University of Vienna; 1894 appointed associate professor of philosophy with special emphasis on psychology in Vienna. From 1896 to 1926 full professor of philosophy in Innsbruck. In 1897, the Ministry of Education approves the establishment of an Institute for Experimental Psychology. In 1910 Hillebrand brings the 4th Congress for Experimental Psychology to Innsbruck.

Index of the Hillebrand holdings

Apr. 6, 1853 (Kirchdorf a.d. Krems) - Feb. 26, 1922 (Vienna)

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Alois Höfler studied mathematics, physics (with Boltzmann and Stephan) and philosophy (with Vogt, Brentano and Meinong) in Vienna. From 1881 to 1903 he taught mathematics, physics and philosophical propaedeutics at the grammar school of the k.k. Theresianische Akademie in Vienna from 1881 to 1903; at the same time, he continued his studies in philosophy, obtained his doctorate in 1886 under Meinong in Graz with the topic "Einige Gesetze der Unverträglichkeit zwischen Urteilen" and habilitated in philosophy and pedagogy at the philosophical faculty of the University of Vienna in 1895 ("Psychische Arbeit", Zs. für Psychologie 8, 1894); university professor of pedagogy in Prague from winter semester 1903 - summer semester 1907, in Vienna from winter semester 1907/1908 - winter semester 1921/1922 (university professor of pedagogy and philosophy since 1916); corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences since spring 1916. Like Ehrenfels, Höfler did not actually belong to the Graz school, but was also already a student of the private lecturer Meinong in Vienna and had a lifelong philosophical and friendly relationship with him. He wrote a textbook on logic together with Meinong. Apart from philosophical psychology, his most important achievements were in the field of didactics and scientific theory of the natural sciences. As chairman and honorary chairman of the Philosophical Society of the University of Vienna, he significantly influenced the tolerant course of this discussion forum, which was important for the development of Austrian philosophy. Together with Ehrenfels and Meinong, Höfler also shared an enthusiasm for music and, as a convinced Wagnerian, was a founding member and long-standing board member of the Vienna Academic Wagner Society.

List of Höfler's holdings

Oct. 12, 1909 (Anhwei, China) - Feb. 27, 1992 (Beijing)

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Cha Hung's most influential teacher was Liang Qi-chia. He encouraged him to go to Jena in 1927 to study under Rudolf Eucken. However, Eucken died before Hung arrived. Hung initially studied mathematics, physics and philosophy with Bruno Bauch, but then turned to Hans Reichenbach in Berlin. It is not known how long Hung actually studied in Berlin. However, he arrived in Vienna in the winter semester of 1928/29 to study there until Schlick's death. From 1931 he also took part in the meetings of the Vienna Circle. He wrote his dissertation with Schlick on the topic: "The causal problem in modern physics". 1937/38 Lecturer at the National Beijing University, from 1940 to 1945 at the National South-West University (China). 1945-47 Research Fellow, New College, Oxford University. 1948-51 Professor and Head of the Department of Philosophy at National Wuhan University, 1951/52 at Yenching University, since 1965 finally back at Beijing University.

Index of the holdings of Tscha Hung

May 12, 1874 (Graz) - July 20, 1950 (Schönbühel on the Danube)

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Son of the bank clerk Alois Kastil. Secondary school in Brno. In 1892, the year of his school-leaving examination, he came to Prague due to a transfer of his father. Studied law at the German University in Prague. After passing the first state examination, he devoted himself exclusively to philosophy. K. attended lectures by Anton Marty and Emil Arleth. 1898 Doctorate with a thesis on the "Principles of Aristotelian Ethics". 1902 Habilitation ("The question of the knowledge of the good in Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas"). Temporary tutor to Giovanni Brentano, Brentano's only son, in Florence. From 1902, Kastil also worked as secretary of the "Society for the Promotion of German Science, Art and Literature in Bohemia" for material reasons. From 1909, as a colleague of Franz Hillebrand, full professor of philosophy in Innsbruck. Together with Oskar Kraus, he began work on Franz Brentano's estate in 1917. In 1920, he sided with the writer in the Innsbruck "Karl Kraus Affair" (German nationalist and Catholic students protested against a reading by Kraus). During the 1920s, the first Brentano archive was set up in Innsbruck, and K. also brought in Ernst Foradori to help manage it. In 1933, K. retired prematurely for political reasons. K. continues to work on the edition of Brentano's works, initially in Vienna and increasingly in Schönbühel after the beginning of the war.

Index of the Kastil collection

Nov. 17, 1903 (Moscow) - Jan. 20, 1985 (Oxford)

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Georg Katkov was the son of Michael Katkov, who taught as a professor of Roman law at the University of Kiev from 1906 to 1921. In 1921, Katkov's family emigrated to Czechoslovakia. There he studied philosophy at the German University in Prague under Oskar Kraus and Christian von Ehrenfels. Katkov also studied Indology with Moritz Winternitz and attended lectures at the Faculty of Russian Law. Even as a student, he assisted Kraus in working through the Brentano estate. In 1929, Katkov received his doctorate with the thesis Zur kritischen Revision der Lehre vom Bewußtsein. He completed his major rigorosum in philosophy (Kraus, Ehrenfels) and experimental psychology (Johannes Lindworsky) and his minor rigorosum in Indology (Winternitz, Slotty). As an assistant to Kraus and Ehrenfels, Katkov was also a lecturer in philosophy and from 1930 to 1933 a lecturer in Russian at the German Technical University. In 1931 he became secretary and archivist of the Brentano Society. In 1939, he emigrated to Great Britain, where he succeeded in helping Kraus, who had been imprisoned in Prague when the Nazis invaded, to leave the country. After 1945, he increasingly lost interest in philosophy and turned to the study of Russian history. Katkov was a Fellow at St. Antony's College in Oxford for many years. As a trustee of the Brentano Foundation, founded by John Brentano in Boston in 1961, Katkov was also his closest advisor until his death.

List of the Katkov holdings

May 19, 1938 (Stuttgart) - Feb. 17, 1999 (Graz)

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Hans Georg Knapp was born in Stuttgart, the son of architect Werner Knapp and his wife Sigrid. The family moved to Prague in 1940 and then to Techendorf am Weißensee in Carinthia in 1945. Knapp attended elementary school in Prague and Techendorf, from 1949-1951 the BG and BRG Innsbruck, then the Realgymnasium in Lienz, where he graduated in 1957. From 1957 he studied philosophy and mathematics in Graz, Tübingen and Darmstadt, where he was particularly interested in fundamental problems of social and economic sciences and mathematics. He received his doctorate in Graz on June 2, 1970 with the dissertation "Functional structures in propositional logic". Alongside his studies, he worked on spatial planning reports on medieval castle and settlement sites in his father's company. From 1969 he was a research assistant, from 1970 a university assistant and from 1984 a permanent senior assistant at the Institute for Trade, Sales and Marketing at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Graz. In 1976, he habilitated in basic philosophical research with the publication "Logik der Prognose. Semantic foundations of technological and social science predictions". He was a lecturer at the Institute of Philosophy from 1976 and an associate professor at the Institute of Commerce, Sales and Marketing from 1997. He retired in 1998 due to illness.

List of the Knapp holdings

July 4, 1872 (Prague) - Sep. 26, 1942 (Oxford)

Short biography

After attending the k.k. Deutsches Staatsgymnasium am Graben in Prague, Kraus studied law and philosophy from 1890. His philosophical teachers were Anton Marty and Friedrich Jodl. Marty introduced him to the philosophy of Franz Brentano, which would determine his future (intellectual) life. Kraus met Brentano himself for the first time in 1893. In 1895, he obtained his doctorate in law. From 1896, he worked in the financial procurator's office to earn a living. In 1902, Kraus completed his habilitation at the Faculty of Philosophy with the thesis Zur Theorie des Wertes. A study of Bentham. Kraus was also a member of the Louvre Circle, which had formed around his teacher Marty. He passed the bar exam in 1907. On Brentano's advice, Kraus converted from Judaism to Protestantism. In 1909 he was awarded the title of associate professor, and in 1911 he resigned from the Procuratorate of Finance and was appointed associate professor. After Marty's death in 1916, Kraus became his successor as full professor of philosophy at the German University of Prague. In 1916 he visited Brentano in Zurich together with Kastil. From 1922, work began on Brentano's estate, with Kraus publishing Brentano's Psychology from an Empirical Point of View in three volumes. In 1931, Kraus founded the Prague Brentano Society with financial support from President Masaryk. In 1934, he was vice president of the 8th International Congress of Philosophers held in Prague. When German troops invaded Prague in March 1939, Kraus was arrested, but was released after 6 weeks in prison and was able to flee to Great Britain. In 1941, he gave the Gifford Lectures New Meditations on Mind, God, and His Creation at the University of Edinburgh. He died of cancer in Oxford in September 1942.

Index of the Kraus collection

October 28, 1847 (Schwyz/Switzerland) - October 1, 1914 (Prague)

Short biography

Marty initially attended the monastery school in Einsiedeln. He then went on to study theology at the seminary in Mainz, where he wrote his treatise Die Lehre des hl. Thomas über die Abstraktion der übersinnlichen Ideen aus den sinnlichen Bildern nebst Darstellung und Kritik der übrigen Erkenntnistheorien. From 1868 to 1870, Marty attended Franz Brentano's lectures at the University of Würzburg. In 1869, he received lower ordination and in the same year became Professor of Philosophy at the Lyceum in Schwyz. A year later, he received higher orders, but resigned from the priesthood in 1872, just like Brentano. He then went to Göttingen to complete his doctorate under Lotze in 1875(Critique of the Theories on the Origin of Language). In the same year, he was appointed to Czernowitz. During this time, he also traveled with Brentano to Italy, among other places. In 1880, Marty was appointed to the German University of Prague, where he held the chair of philosophy until the end of his life. Through his work and that of his students (Oskar Kraus, Alfred Kastil, Emil Utitz, Joseph Eisenmeier), Prague became the center of "Brentanist" philosophy for decades. In 1894, Marty was nominated primo loco Vienna for the third chair of philosophy at the University of Vienna, but was rejected by the ministry "because of his past". Marty "offers the peculiar example of a life for philosophy that was determined by very few external events, but which was nevertheless rich in ethical and intellectual tensions" (R. Egidi). Marty was Brentano's closest friend and the most loyal of his immediate students. His main achievement was to have deepened Brentano's theories in the field of the philosophy of language.

Index of the Marty collection

Aug. 10, 1885 (Weidling near Vienna) - March 29, 1978 (Innsbruck)

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F. Mayer-Hillebrand was born in Weidling near Vienna in 1885, the daughter of the Austrian General Josef Reicher. In 1891 he was appointed corps commander of Innsbruck, which brought the family to Tyrol. F. M.-H. enjoyed a private education, as there was no girls' grammar school in Innsbruck at the time. In 1905 she passed her school-leaving examination as a private student. 1914 Start of her studies. Major subjects are philosophy and psychology, minor subject biology. Her dissertation The non-real as fiction is supervised by Alfred Kastil. She takes the main oral examination under Kastil and Hillebrand. She graduates on March 15, 1919 as the second doctoral candidate at the University of Innsbruck. In 1920 she married Franz Hillebrand, 23 years her senior. Over the next few years, she undertook experimental psychological work at his psychological institute. Hillebrand dies in 1926. In 1927, M.-H. declines Carl Stumpf's invitation to habilitate in Berlin. 1928 Marriage to Carl Mayer, Director of the Neurological and Psychiatric University Clinic in Innsbruck. Continued experimental psychological work, particularly in the field of visual perception. 1932 She habilitates at the Faculty of Philosophy with the support of Kastil and the physiologist Brücke. 1936 Death of C. Mayer. M.-H. turns to work in art psychology. She continued her teaching activities during the 3rd Reich. In 1943 she is appointed "associate professor". 1946 Lectures on art psychology in Alpbach. Continued to lecture on psychology as a private lecturer. Summer semester 1948: Lecture on Brentano's philosophy. In the same year meets John Brentano in Switzerland. Contacts with Kastil in Schönbühel, who plans to propose M.-H. as his successor as Brentano editor. In 1948 she is appointed Extraordinaria. Visit to Kastil in Schönbühel in 1949. Kastil dies in 1950. John Brentano now urges her to take over the work on the Brentano estate. Long hesitation due to the postponement of her own work. From September 1951 to January 1952, she accepted a visiting professorship at Northwestern University in Evanston. During this time, she lives with the Brentanos in Highland Park. She examines Brentano's original manuscripts and compiles a catalog. By 1966, M.-H. had published a total of 6 volumes from the Brentano estate and also edited the Brentano book by her teacher Kastil.

Index of the Mayer-Hillebrand collection

Nov. 4, 1909 (Innsbruck) - Jan. 19, 1945 (Fessenheim/Upper Alsace)

Short biography

Attended grammar school in Innsbruck. From the winter semester of 1928/29, studied German and Romance philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Innsbruck. 1934 Doctorate with a linguistic subject. Mitter also attended lectures on philosophy and psychology with Alfred Kastil, Theodor Ehrismann and Richard Strohal. Mitter was very much in the tradition of the Innsbruck Brentano School. Had he not been killed in action in Alsace in the last days of the Second World War, Kastil would have entrusted him with the continuation of the editing work on the Brentano estate.

Index of the Mitter collection

Oct. 6, 1857 (Vienna) - January 4, 1890 (Vienna)

Short biography

Studies in Heidelberg and Vienna. Attends Brentano's lectures together with Sigmund Freud. 1879 Dr. med. Then worked with Billroth and the physiologist Ernst Brücke. Returns to Vienna after a short stay in Breslau. 1886 Private lecturer at the University of Vienna. November 1883 to March 1884 Worked at the zoological station in Villefranche near Nice. Studies on histology, nerves and secretion; discovers the so-called "Paneth cells". In philosophy, interested in epistemological problems, the results of which were not published, however. Contacts with Sigmund Freud and Friedrich Nietzsche during his Zarathustra period.

Index of the Paneth collection

Sept. 28, 1869 (Linz) - June 17, 1955 (Vienna)

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Already during his time at grammar school in Linz, three preferences became apparent which were to determine his later philosophical orientation: his enthusiasm for Fichte's idealism ("The Destiny of Man"), for Kant (although he then turned away from him) and his love of animals, his interest in Buddhist teachings and, in connection with this, the Indian philosophy of the Upanishads (Atman-Brahman doctrine), which was probably awakened by reading Schopenhauer. The latter is reflected in Reininger's central philosophical concept of "primordial experience". After a year of studying philosophy and natural sciences in Bonn (1888), he was an avid student of Adolf Stöhr at the University of Vienna. He spent the summer semester of 1891 in Heidelberg to listen to Kuno Fischer. On March 17, 1893, he received his doctorate in philosophy; his minor subject was zoology. The dissertation topic was: "On Schopenhauer's critique of Kant's doctrine of the object of experience." From 1903/4 private lecturer at the University of Vienna for "History of Philosophy", 1913 appointment as associate professor of philosophy as successor to Friedrich Jodl, 1913 marriage to Luise Kirchmeir in Linz, 1919 appointment as "Ordinarius", 1922 appointment as full professor of philosophy, 1922 election as corresponding professor. Philosophy, 1922 elected corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in Vienna and 1924 full member of the same. From 1912-1939 Reininger was chairman of the philosophical society at the University of Vienna. He retired on April 1, 1939, but Reininger continued to teach until 1940 as the representative of his as yet unappointed successor (Arnold Gehlen). He died on June 17, 1955 after suffering a second stroke and pneumonia.

Index of the Reininger holdings

Sep 20, 1890 (Gornja Radgona, Slovenia) - May 3, 1975 (Ljubljana)

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Pupil of Alexius Meinong; the first academic teacher of philosophy at the newly founded University of Ljubljana; the most important Slovenian philosopher of the 20th century and founder of modern Slovenian philosophy. France Weber was born on September 20, 1890 in Radgona/Radkersburg (today Gornja Radgona/Oberradkersburg). After graduating from high school (1910), he attended the seminary in Maribor/Marburg for three semesters. From 1912 to 1917, he studied philosophy and classical philology at the University of Graz. From 1915 to 1918 he did military service; he worked for the military censor for Slavic languages in Feldkirch (Vorarlberg). In 1917, he obtained his doctorate under Alexius Meinong with the thesis "The nature of the subject of ought and its relationship to value is to be investigated and the result possibly made useful for the basic problems of ethics" (the extension of a thesis for which he had been awarded the Wartinger Prize in 1916). After returning home, he taught as an assistant teacher of German studies at the first state grammar school in Ljubljana from 1919 to 1920. In April 1920, he habilitated at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb/Agram under Albert Bazala. In October of the same year, he became a university lecturer for theoretical philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana; in 1923 he became an associate professor and finally a full professor in 1929. In 1931/1932 he was Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and the following year its Vice-Dean. From 1940 to 1945, he was a corresponding member of the "Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts" and founder and first chairman of the "Slovenian Philosophical Society". After the end of the war, he was imprisoned for two months and retired early in the same year for ideological reasons. Weber had to renounce his membership of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. In 1954, he gave three lectures in Graz at the invitation of the Philosophical Society: "Empfindungsgrundlagen der Gegenstandstheorie", "Gefühl und Wert" and "Mensch und Geschichte". In 1970 he was awarded the Golden Doctorate of the University of Graz. He died on May 3, 1975 in Ljubljana. In 1996, Weber was posthumously rehabilitated by the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Index of the Weber collection

Walther Del-Negro (1898-1984)
Austrian philosopher and geologist.

Estate; 1 linear meter; electronic detailed index

Rudolf Freundlich (1911-1988)
Austrian philosopher.
Full professor of philosophy in Graz from 1965 to 1981.

Partial estate; 1 folder

Dagobert Frey (1883-1962)
Austrian cultural historian.

Separate collection; 1 linear meter

Gerhard Frey (1915-2002)
Austrian philosopher and philosopher of science.

Partial bequest; 30 boxes + 1 folder; Index: electronic detailed index of the separate collection

Society for Basic Scientific Research, Graz

Correspondence and documentation, 0.5 linear meters.

Erich Heintel (1912-2000)
Austrian philosopher.
Full professor of philosophy at the University of Vienna from 1960 to 1982.

Separate collection 6 boxes; ms. Index

Otto Höfler (1901-1987)
Austrian medievalist; son of the philosopher Alois Höfler.

Partial estate; 1 box

Malte Hossenfelder (1935-2011)
German philosopher.
Full professor of philosophy at the University of Graz from 1991 to 2003.

Separate collection, books, few manuscripts; 1.5 running meters.

Leinfellner Collection

Materials on Wittgenstein and the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society; 1 linear meter.

Rudolf Kindinger (1884-1968)
Director of the University Library of Graz and editor of the estate of Alexius Meinong.

Partial estate; 1 folder; electronic detailed index

Karl Nawratil (1912-2009)
Austrian philosopher

Partial bequest; 1 box; electronic detailed index

Austrian Society for Philosophy

Correspondence and documentation; 1 running meter.

Rush Rhees (1905-1989)
English philosopher.
Friend of Ludwig Wittgenstein and co-editor of his estate.

Partial estate; 0.5 linear meters

Moritz Schlick estate

Complete digital copy of the Schlick estate, which was previously only accessible in the form of microfiches and partly in the form of copies at the FDÖP.

David L. Székely († after 1979)
Automation technician; marginal figure of the late Vienna Circle.

Partial estate; 1 folder