Anton Marty

Anton Marty
Born 18 October 1847
Schwyz, Switzerland
Died 1 October 1914(1914-10-01) (aged 66)
Prague, Austria-Hungary
Era 20th century philosophy
Region Western Philosophy
School School of Brentano
Main interests
Philosophy of language, psychology, ontology
Notable ideas
Descriptive semasiology[1]

Martin Anton Maurus Marty (German: [ˈmarti]; 18 October 1847  1 October 1914) was a Swiss-born Austrian philosopher. He specialized in philosophy of language, philosophy of psychology and ontology.

Biography

Marty was a student and follower of Franz Brentano, who was his teacher at the University of Würzburg. He taught at the Franz-Josephs-Universität Czernowitz (Austria-Hungary) from 1875 to 1880 and after that at the Charles University in Prague (Austria-Hungary) where from 1895 to 1897 he was twice rector.

Legacy

The Prague School linguists were influenced by his works.[2] Franz Kafka attended his Philosophy lectures while at University.[3]

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Notes

  1. "Anton Marty" at Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  2. Roman Jakobson (1933), "La scuola linguistica di Praga", La cultura 12, 633–641, esp. p. 637.
  3. Neil Heims (2004). Harold Bloom, ed. Franz Kafka. Philadelphia: Chelsea House. p. 28. ISBN 079107871X.

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