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Letter from Felix Kaufmann written 21.05.1935

Author Felix Kaufmann
Category foreign researchers, incoming correspondence
Archive Archive of Science PAN and PAU in Cracow
Date of creation 21.05.1935
Related places Lviv, Prague, Vienna
Reference code in archive K_III-26_D_43
Copyrights all rights reserved
Resource type letter
Subject matter organizational issues, personal issues, publication isssues
Field philosophy
Tags #? Luttmann, #? Tarski, #academic life, #academic publications, #academic work, #Black Forest, #Cercle philosophique, #delay, #Edmund Husserl, #Emergency Association, #Eugen Fink, #Felix Kaufmann, #financial issues, #friendship relations, #grants, #Husserl's stay in Vienna, #Husserl's visit, #Husserl's works, #Husserl"s lecture, #Kaufmann's works, #Kulturbund, #lectures, #lectures activity, #logical studies, #Lviv, #Malvine Husserl, #manuscripts publications, #Methodology of Social Sciences, #Notgemeinschaft, #physical force, #Prague, #proofreading, #publication of Husserl's works, #revision, #social commitments, #Vienna

Dr. Felix Kaufmann
Vienna, XIX.
Doblinger Hauptstrasse 90                                          n                      n          Vienna, May 21, 1935

 

To

 n     Professor Dr. Roman Ingarden
    n       LWÓW.
 n      Zacharjewicza 7.

 

    n               Dear Mr. Ingarden,
    n               Thank you for your kind letter. I am just now replying to your letter to be able to include a report on Husserl’s stay in my response.
    n               Most importantly: His intellectual and physical force commanded my full admiration as well as the admiration of everyone around him. (By the way, Mrs. Husserl was very refreshing and agile too, if I may add.) Due to the great success of his first lecture on May 7 at the Kulturbund Cultural Association, which lasted one and a half hours, a second lecture on the same topic was scheduled for May 10 – this time lasting three hours! Both times, the lecture hall was completely sold out and filled with a deeply impressed audience which persevered, with a few exceptions, gladly and rather well considering the poor air quality in the lecture hall. Afterward, Husserl cheerfully went out for supper and held discussions until past midnight. Unfortunately, I only attended the first lecture because the second one was supposed to be a verbatim repetition of the first lecture. However, Husserl couldn’t read his manuscript very well that night and therefore decided to speak without notes on the same topic.
    n               Husserl was besieged with social commitments during the fourteen days he spent in Vienna, where, of course, he was the center of the attention and had a lot to talk about. He was quite tired at the end of his stay, but I hope he will soon regenerate and revitalize in the Black Forest. In any event, I don’t think I have seen him in better shape than this time around.
    n               Of course, there was only little time to discuss broader issues that I feel strongly about. Nevertheless, being around this unique individual gave me great momentum and work impulses.
    n               Unfortunately, Fink lost his stipend from the Notgemeinschaft (“Emergency Association”), and he only has enough money left for about six months. I wrote an English friend of mine on his behalf and included a few lines from Husserl. I hope we can secure funding for him.
    n               Much more pleasant is the news from Prague regarding the possible publication of old manuscripts, particularly “Logical Studies” by Cercle Philosophique. I am sure Professor Husserl already shared the pertinent information with you. I immediately gave him your letter that was addressed to him and he was very happy about it.
    n               My book is essentially finished; however, minor amendments, corrections, and explanatory notes might take another six to seven weeks for me to complete before I can send it off to the printer. Anyhow, I am quite pleased that I have arrived at this point, because the work was much more difficult than I had expected.
    n               Dr. Luttmann is already in Paris. Mr. Tarski is still in Vienna. He deserves extenuating circumstances regarding the delayed corrections because when I proofread some pages with him, I realized that it requires a lot of editing to transform the text into readable German.
    n               I truly regret that you weren’t able to get time off to visit while Husserl was in town.

    n               However, I am not giving up hope that you will soon be able to visit during the semester break. This would be a special pleasure for me.

 

    n                             n               Best regards from your sincerely devoted,

    n                           n                                     Felix Kaufmann