Felix Kaufmann

Born on 4 July 1895 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary.

Obtained his doctorate in law at the University of Vienna in 1919 (after studying law and political science).[1]

Worked as a Privatdozent in legal philosophy at the University of Vienna from 1922 to 1938. Member of the Vienna Circle and of the school of legal philosophy around Hans Kelsen.[1]

Alongside his work as a Privatdozent, he earned his living as managing director of the Austrian branch of an international oil company (Anglo-Iranian Oil).[4]

Obtained his doctorate in philosophy at the University of Vienna in 1926.[1]

Publication of his major work "Methodenlehre der Sozialwissenschaften" (Methodology of the Social Sciences; 1936); published in English in the USA as "Methodology of the Social Sciences" in 1944.[1]

In 1938 he left Austria because of the mounting reprisals against Jewish academics and emigrated to the United States.[1]

From his arrival in 1938 until his death he taught as Professor of Legal Philosophy at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research in New York.[1]

Died on 23 December 1949 in New York; he was an Austrian-American philosopher of law.