Edmund Husserl Who is Edmund Husserl? What is his philosophy? What is it all about? These are the questions that need an answer to be able us to know more about him and his philosophy. Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl or Edmund Husserl, he’s the pioneer of discipline of the phenomenology, and one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th century credited for his significant contributions to the fields of philosophy, linguistics, sociology and cognitive psychology. He was born on April 8, 1859 in Prossnitz, Moravia. At the age of 10, he began his German classical education at the Real gymnasium in Vienna. When he is on secondary level, he transferred to the Staatsgymnasium. He also enrolled in the University at Leipzig where he pursued an education in Mathematics, physics and philosoph...