Heinrich Gomperz

Heinrich Gomperzes ( born January 18, 1873 in Vienna, † December 27, 1942 in Los Angeles ) was an Austrian philosopher. He was a son of Theodor Gomperzes.

Gomperzes studied from 1891 law at the University of Vienna. In the meantime, he heard church history at Adolf Harnack. Then he heard again in Vienna Classical Philology and philosophy. He received his doctorate in 1896 with Ernst Mach with the theme On the Psychology of the basic logical facts. The habilitation was 1900 in Bern with the theme of the world as an ordered event. From 1905 on, he worked in Vienna as a lecturer until 1920 to 1934, he held a position as associate professor and from 1924 as full professor of philosophy with a focus on ancient history of philosophy. During this time he was connected to the Vienna Circle. Gomperzes is considered late representative of Empiriocriticism. After the forced retirement, he emigrated in 1935 with the help of FCS Schiller in the U.S., where he held a visiting professorship at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles until his death.

Writings

• Foundation of the neusokratischen philosophy. 1897
• Criticism of hedonism. 1898
• Philosophical doctrine. 2 vols 1905/1908
• The problem of free will. 1907
• Sophistry and rhetoric. 1912
• Philosophy of war in outline. 1915
• Psychological considerations of Greek philosophers. 1924
• The Indian theosophy. 1925
• Sense and structure of meaning, explanation and understanding. 1929
• Philosophical Studies. 1953