FOLIO I · DENKER
Born on 4 July 1895 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary.
Obtained his doctorate in law at the University of Vienna in 1919 (after studying law and political science).[3]
Worked as a Privatdozent in legal philosophy at the University of Vienna from 1922 to 1938. Member of the Vienna Circle and of the school of legal philosophy around Hans Kelsen.[2]
Alongside his work as a Privatdozent, he earned his living as managing director of the Austrian branch of an international oil company (Anglo-Iranian Oil).[3]
Obtained his doctorate in philosophy at the University of Vienna in 1926.[3]
Publication of his major work "Methodenlehre der Sozialwissenschaften" (Methodology of the Social Sciences; 1936); published in English in the USA as "Methodology of the Social Sciences" in 1944.[3]
In 1938 he left Austria because of the mounting reprisals against Jewish academics and emigrated to the United States.[2]
From his arrival in 1938 until his death he taught as Professor of Legal Philosophy at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research in New York.[2]
Died on 23 December 1949 in New York; he was an Austrian-American philosopher of law.
Member of the school of legal philosophy around Hans Kelsen during his Privatdozentur in legal philosophy at the University of Vienna.[2]
Felix Kaufmann in the context of the School as a whole — five generations, their teacher-student lineages, circles and collegial ties.
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