Word: phenomenologist
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Dates: during 1955-1955
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...Breslau, Silesia into a prosperous orthodox Jewish family, Edith was the youngest of seven children and the favorite of her stern, devout mother. After an intellectually precocious childhood, she decided to be an atheist at 13, remained one until she was 21. Later she fell under the spell of Phenomenologist Edmund Husserl, who bucked the relativistic trend in German philosophy by reaffirming the existence of objective truth and of a knowable world, i.e., phenomena. Edith's friends teased her, in rhyme, for thinking only of Husserl while other Austrian girls were dreaming of Busserl (Austrian patois for kiss...
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