Husserl Archives Leuven

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Established in 1939, the Husserl Archives at KU Leuven is responsible for the critical edition of Husserl's writings and research in phenomenology.

Geschiedenis

The collection of the Husserl Archives contains:

- Edmund Husserl’s philosophical heritage, his handwritten manuscripts (35,000 pages)

- lecture notes by Husserl’s students, notes of conversations with Husserl (2,000 pages)

- manuscripts by other authors (800 pages)

- Husserl's notes from lecture courses by his teachers: Brentano, Kronecker, Stumpf, Weierstrass (2,000 pages).

- correspondence (I: letters by Husserl; II: letters to Husserl; III. letters about Husserl) (7,000 pages)

- collection of manuscripts of other phenomenologists (Oskar Becker, Dorion Cairns, Johannes Daubert, Martin Heidegger, Hans Reiner, Herbert Spiegelberg…) (2,500 pages)

- archival material: diarys of Husserl, letters by Husserl’s wife Malvine Husserl and the family of Husserl (after Husserl’s death, later than 1938), Acta authentica (biographical informations: files from school, university, academic career) (3,500 pages)

- the private library of Edmund Husserl with his handwritten annotations and comments (a collection of around 4,000 books and journals)

- transcriptions of the unpublished manuscripts of Edmund Husserl

- collection of photos

- the handwritten manuscripts of Gerhart Husserl (Husserl’s son), Fritz Kaufmann (scholar of Edmund Husserl)

- the correspondence of the Husserl-Archives with different philosophers and institutions from 1938 on (for example with Merleau-Ponty, Derrida, Sartre, Heidegger …)