!!!Schütz, Alfred

b. Vienna, April 13, 1899, 
d. New York (USA), May 20, 1959. Sociologist, student of L. von  
Mises, influenced by international law scholar H.  Kelsen and by the 
Vienna Circle. From 1939 exile in New York, where he was a full-time 
financial lawyer up to the 1950s. Did not become professor at the New 
School for Social Research in New York until 1952, taught there until 
his death. S. regarded sociology as an empirical social science; 
worked esp. on the social structures of everyday life. Was widely 
ignored in German-speaking countries during his life, many of his 
books were published posthumously.

!Works
Der sinnhafte Aufbau der sozialen Welt, 1932; Mozart and the 
Philosophers, 1956; Das Problem der Relevanz, 1970; Gesammelte 
Aufsaetze, 3 vols., 1970; Die Strukturen der Lebenswelt, 1975.

!Literature
R. Grathoff, Milieu und Lebenswelt, 1989.



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