!!!Zilsel, Edgar

b. Vienna, Aug. 11, 1891, 
d. Oakland (USA, committed suicide), March 11, 1944, philosopher. 
Advocated marxist ideas and therefore had to renounce his academic 
career. Was actively engaged in adult education, taught mathematics 
and physics at a secondary school in Vienna from 1934. As a 
philosopher he combined marxist ideas with the positivist notions of 
the  Vienna Circle, with which he was closely involved; he studied the 
influence of social conditions on the development of modern science 
and the relations between the social and natural sciences. Emigrated 
to the USA in 1938, where he became increasingly isolated; after 
private and political disappointments (developments in the Soviet 
Union under Stalin) he committed suicide. His ashes have been laid to 
rest at the Vienna Central Cemetery.

!Publications
Die Geniereligion, 1918; Die soz. Urspruenge der 
neuzeitl. Wiss., ed. by W. Krohn, 1976.

!Literature
J. Dvořak, E. Z. und die Einheit der Erkenntnis, 
1981.



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