Gerhart Adolf Husserl (December 22, 1893 – September 9, 1973,Freiburg im Breisgau) was aGermanlegal scholar andphilosopher. He was the eldest son of philosopherEdmund Husserl (1859–1938).^[1]

Born inHalle,Saxony, in 1893. He was on active duty duringthe Great war, and suffered a serious wound in 1917 and again in 1918, losing the sight of his left eye. Gerhart Husserl nonetheless managed to finish his University studies andhabilitated in 1924. In two years, on 18 November 1926 he became a Professor of Law at theUniversity of Kiel.^[2] He was dismissed due to theLaw for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service in 1933, and eventually emigrated to theUnited States. In the USA, he taught at theUniversity of Washington from 1940 to 1948.^[2] In 1954 he was appointed honorary professor of Comparative law and Anglo-American law by the Freiburg Law Faculty. His research interests were centered around phenomenology of law.

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