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Moritz Schlick (1882-1936)
1882
Friedrich Albert Moritz Schlick is born on April 14, in Berlin,
Germany. He attends the Luisenstädter Realgymnasium in Berlin;
after having finished school, he studies physics, chemistry and
philosophy at the universities of Berlin, Heidelberg and Lausanne
from 1900 - 1904.
1904
Schlick returns to Berlin to complete his doctorate in physics
under the direction of Max Planck with a thesis on "The Reflection
of Light in an Inhomogeneous Layer" ("Über die
Reflexion des Lichtes in einer inhomogenen Schicht").
1905-1907
Further studies in natural sciences at the universities of Göttingen,
Heidelberg and Berlin. Numerous journeys in Germany, Austria, Switzerland,
Italy, and the United States.
1907
Marriage with Blanche Hardy
1908
"Lebensweisheit: Versuch einer Glückseligkeitslehre"
1908 -1910
Studies of philosophy and psychology in Zürich, Switzerland.
Contacts with Gustav Störring.
1911
The submission of Schlick's Habilitationsschrift "Das
Wesen der Wahrheit nach der modernen Logik" sets the starting
point for his 10 years research and teaching activities at Rostock
University.
1915
Contacts and friendship with Albert Einstein. Schlick is one of
the first scholars to work on the philosophical aspects of the theory
of relativity.
1917
The first edition of "Space and Time in Contemporary Physics"
appears ("Raum und Zeit in der gegenwärtigen Physik.
Zur Einführung in das Verständnis der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie.")
Schlick is awarded the title of a professor from Rostock University.
During the Great War, he serves at a military airport.
1918
Schlick's main work, "Allgemeine Erkenntnislehre"
("General Theory of Knowledge"), is published.
1921
Schlick is appointed Professor extraordinarius of ethics and natural
philosophy at the University of Rostock.
Summer 1921
Schlick receives a Full Professorship at the University of Kiel.
1922
In succession to Ernst Mach and Ludwig Boltzmann, Schlick is appointed
Professor of the Philosophy of Inductive Sciences at the University
of Vienna. He engages in various professional and social activities
and establishes contacts with Karl and Charlotte Bühler, Heinrich
Gomperz and a series of other Viennese scholars.
1924 onwards
Schlick founds a scientific and philosophical discussion group,
giving thus birth to the forming of the "Vienna Circle".
Regular participants are, among others, Rudolf Carnap, Otto Neurath,
Herbert Feigl, Hans Hahn, Friedrich Waismann, Olga Hahn-Neurath,
Karl Menger, Viktor Kraft, Philipp Frank, Gustav Bergmann and Kurt
Gödel.
The Thursday evening seminars which constituted
the Vienna Circle took place in the Department of Mathematics of
the University of Vienna.
1926 onwards
Contacts and correspondence with Ludwig Wittgenstein. Schlick holds
several research- and teaching positions as a visiting professor
at American and British universities. The discussion forum of the
Vienna Circle attracts more and more international visitors, among
them A.J. Ayer, W.V.O. Quine, Carl Hempel and Alfred Tarski.
1929 onwards
Editor of "Schriften zur wissenschaftlichen Weltauffassung"
(together with Philipp Frank, 1929-37)
1930
"Fragen der Ethik" ("Problems of Ethics").
1936
On June 22, 1936, Moritz Schlick is murdered by a former student
in the main building of Vienna University.
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