Anton Marty

Anton Marty
Born	18 October 1847 Schwyz, Switzerland
Died	1 October 1914 Prague, Austria-Hungary
Era	20th century philosophy
Region	Western Philosophy
School	School of Brentano
Main interests	Philosophy of language, psychology, ontology
Notable ideas	Descriptive semasiology[1]
Influences Franz Brentano

Martin Anton Maurus Marty (German: [ˈmarti]; 18 October 1847 – 1 October 1914) was a Swiss-born Austrian philosopher. He specialized in philosophy of language, psychology and ontology.

Biography

Marty was a student and and follower of Franz Brentano, who was his teacher at the University of Würzburg. He taught at the Franz-Josephs-Universität Czernowitz (Austria-Hungary) from 1875 to 1880 and after that at the Charles University in Prague (Austria-Hungary) where from 1895 to 1897 he was twice rector.

Legacy

The Prague School linguists were influenced by his works.^[2] Franz Kafka attended his Philosophy lectures while at University.^[3]

Bibliography

• Ueber den Ursprung der Sprache, 1875
• Die Frage nach der geschichtlichen Entwicklung des Farbensinnes, 1879
• Untersuchungen zur Grundlegung der allgemeinen Grammatik und Sprachphilosophie, 1908
• Zur Sprachphilosophie. Die „logische“, „lokalistische“ und andere Kasustheorien, 1910
• Raum und Zeit, 1916

See also

• Vilém Mathesius

Notes

1. "Anton Marty" at Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
2. Roman Jakobson (1933), "La scuola linguistica di Praga", La cultura 12, 633–641, esp. p. 637.
3. Neil Heims (2004). Harold Bloom, ed. Franz Kafka. Philadelphia: Chelsea House. p. 28. ISBN 079107871X.

References

• Seuren, Pieter A. M. (1998), Western linguistics: An historical introduction, Wiley-blackwell, ISBN 0-631-20891-7
• Barry Smith, Austrian Philosophy: The Legacy of Franz Brentano, Open Court Publishing, 1994, Ch. 4: "Anton Marty: On Being and Truth".
• Johannes Marek and Barry Smith, “Einleitung zu A. Martys ‘Elemente der deskriptiven Psychologie”, Conceptus, 21 (1987), 33–48, editors’ introduction to extracts from Marty’s lectures (ibid., 49–66).

External links

• Publications by and about Anton Marty in the catalogue Helveticat of the Swiss National Library