Anton Marty

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

Anton Marty
Born18 October 1847
Schwyz, Switzerland
Died1 October 1914(1914-10-01) (aged 66)
Prague, Austria-Hungary
Alma materUniversity of Würzburg
University of Göttingen
Era20th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolSchool of Brentano
InstitutionsFranz-Josephs-Universität Czernowitz
(1875–1880)
University of Prague
(1895–1897)
ThesisKritik der Theorien über den Sprachursprung (Criticism of Theories About the Origin of Language) (1875)
Doctoral advisorHermann Lotze
Other academic advisorsFranz Brentano
Doctoral studentsAlfred Kastil
Main interests
Philosophy of language, psychology, ontology
Notable ideas
Descriptive semasiology[1]
Inner linguistic form[1]
Autosemantica vs. synsemantica[1]
Presentational suggestives[1]
Impersonals[1]

Biography

Marty was a student and follower of Franz Brentano, his teacher at the University of Würzburg in 1868–70. He was ordained in 1870 but resigned from priesthood in 1872.

He taught at the Franz-Josephs-Universität Czernowitz (Austria-Hungary) from 1875 to 1880 and after that at the University of 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 the University of Prague.[3]

Bibliography
  • Ueber den Ursprung der Sprache (On the Origin of Language), 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

Notes
  1. "Anton Marty" at the 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


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