Max Scheler
Max Scheler Max Scheler was born in Munich on 22 August 1874 and died in Frankfurt on 19 May 1928. He studied in Munich, Berlin and Jena, where he took his doctorate under Rudolf Eucken. He met Edmund Husserl in 1901 and became one of the figures of the phenomenological movement, active in Munich and in the Göttingen circle. A convert to Catholicism, he was a professor at Cologne from 1919, where he was meant to be the Catholic thinker of the new social-science research institute, and in 1927 took up a chair at Frankfurt. His work is among the most influential in German philosophy of the first half of the twentieth century, though it remained unfinished. ...