Background
Adolf Reinach was born on December 23, 1883, in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. He was the oldest of three children of Wilhelm Markus Reinach and Pauline Eugenie Hirschhorn.
Adolf Reinach was born on December 23, 1883, in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. He was the oldest of three children of Wilhelm Markus Reinach and Pauline Eugenie Hirschhorn.
Adolf Reinach attended Rabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium. In 1901 he entered the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich where he studied psychology and philosophy. He received a Doctor of Philosophy degree on December 20, 1904.
Later Reinach wanted to continue his studies in order to obtain a degree in law. In 1905 he studied at the University of Gottingen. He also studied at the University of Tübingen from 1906 to 1907 where he attended several lectures and seminars on penal law by the legal theorist Ernst Beling. In 1907, Reinach took the First State Examination in Law and in 1909 he obtained habilitation.
Adolf Reinach started his career as a professor at the University of Göttingen in 1909. He delivered lectures and seminars on philosophy. At that time he began his works in the area of phenomenology and philosophy. In 1912 Reinach, together with Moritz Geiger and Alexander Pfänder founded the famous Jahrbuch für Philosophie und phänomenologische Forschung. In 1914, Reinach enlisted in the German army. He died in battle in Flanders on 16 November 1917.
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1905Adolf Reinach became a member of the Protestant church in 1916. Before his death he said that he would only teach philosophy in the future as a means of leading men to God.
Adolf Reinach was an outstanding exponent of the kind of realist phenomenology inspired by Husserl's Logical Investigations. He stated that the phenomenological method is to teach us how to see things which we have a tendency to overlook in our everyday practical attitude, and to see them in their unique whatness or essence without the customary attempts to reduce them to the smallest possible number, an attempt which can lead only to impoverishment and falsification of the phenomena. Reinach said that we can have direct access to essences in a non-sensory kind of seeing or intuition. He developed his theory of the phenomenological a priori. According to Reinach, material a priori states of affairs and essences exist independently of the contingent minds that may apprehend them and of the individual objects that may instantiate them. Reinach is also credited for the development of a forerunner to the theory of speech acts by Austin and Searle.
Adolf Reinach was a good man, well-respected and adored by all who knew him.
Adolf Reinach married Anna Stettenheimer on September 14, 1912.
