Anton Marty

Anton Marty ( born October 18, 1847 in Schwyz, † October 1, 1914 in Prague) was a Swiss philosopher and university professor.

Life

Marty graduated from the Collegiate School Einsiedeln and then studied in Mainz. From 1868 to 1870 he attended lectures in Würzburg with Franz Brentano, whose most faithful disciple and friend he was. In 1869 he became professor of philosophy at the college of Schwyz. In 1870 he held his first Holy Mass. In 1872 he resigned from the priesthood and left Switzerland in the direction of Göttingen. There he received his doctorate in 1875 with Rudolf Hermann Lotze with the work critique of theories about the origin of language. In the same year he was appointed to the newly founded Franz Joseph's University Chernivtsi. In 1880 he moved to the German Charles-Ferdinand University in Prague. Your he remained faithful as full professor until his death. From 1895 to 1897 he was twice rector.

Reception

By Marty Prague was brentanischer a center philosophy. Among his students iron Joseph Meier, Alfred Kastil, Oskar Kraus and Emil Utitz. His studies on the functions of language had great influence on Karl Bühler and Edmund Husserl. Franz Kafka also was influenced in his work by Marty: He heard in the summer term of 1902 Marty's lecture on basic questions of descriptive psychology. And Kafka regularly visited the Louvrezirkel, those exclusive Brentano circle.

Publications

  • About the origin of language. Stuber, Würzburg 1875
  • The question of the historical development of the color sense. Gerold, Vienna 1879
  • Studies on the foundation of general grammar and philosophy. Niemeyer, Halle an der Saale in 1908
  • For the philosophy of language. The "logical ", " localist " and other Kasustheorien. Niemeyer, Halle an der Saale in 1910
  • Time and space. Published posthumously by Josef Meier iron, Alfred Kastil, Oskar Kraus. Niemeyer, Halle an der Saale in 1916
  • Posthumous writings. Edited by Otto Funke. Francke, Bern 1950 Psyche and language structure. Volume I
  • Sentence and word. A critical examination of the usual grammatical teaching and their definitions. Volume II
  • About value and method of a general descriptive theory of meaning. Volume III
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