Moritz Schlick was born in Berlin on 14 April 1882. He studied physics and mathematics at the Universities of Heidelberg, Lausanne and Berlin, where he earned his doctorate under Max Planck in 1904. In 1910, he received his habilitation (post-doctoral qualification) in philosophy from the University of Rostock, where he lectured until 1921, when a professorship at the University of Kiel came along. One year later, he was appointed to the “Lehrstuhl für Philosophie, insbesondere Geschichte und Theorie der induktiven Wissenschaften” (chair of philosophy with a special focus on the history and theory of the inductive sciences) in Vienna, succeeding Ernst Mach. On 22 June 1936, Moritz Schlick was murdered by a former student in the university’s staircase.
Moritz Schlick was an initiator and at the centre of a group of scholars that became known as the Vienna Circle, which upheld logical empiricism.
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