!!!Schlick, Moritz

b. Berlin (Germany), April 14, 1882, 
d. Vienna, June 22, 1936 (murdered). Philosopher. Logical positivist, 
founder of the  Vienna Circle, from 1922 university professor in 
Vienna. Studied sciences and mathematics in Heidelberg, Lausanne and 
Berlin, favourite pupil of M. Planck, under whom he finished his 
doctoral thesis in 1904. Friendship with A. Einstein; was the first to 
transfer the latter's theory of relativity into philosophy. 
Concentrated on questions of cognition, truth, logic and mathematics. 
To him philosophy was the logical explanation of concepts. Shot by a 
psychopathic pupil in the University of Vienna.

!Works
Lebensweisheit, 1908; Das Wesen der Wahrheit nach der modernen 
Logik, 1911 (post-doctoral thesis); Raum und Zeit in der gegenwaert. 
Physik, 1917; Allg. Erkenntnislehre, 1918; Fragen der Ethik, 1930. - 
Editor: series "Schriften zur wiss. Weltauffassung", 1929-1937.

!Literature
B. McGuiness (ed.), Zurueck zu S., 1985; P. Mahr 
(ed.), Erinnerung an M. S., exhibition catalogue, Austrian 
National Library, Vienna 1996; OeBL.



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