Franz Brentano

Brentano was born at Marienberg am Rhein, near Boppard.

He transferred to Zurich at the outbreak of the First World War, where he died in 1917.

While he began his career as a full ordinary professor, he was forced to give up both his Austrian citizenship and his professorship in 1880 in order to marry Ida Lieben (Austro-Hungarian law denied matrimony to persons who had been ordained priests even if they later had resigned from priesthood), but he was permitted to stay at the university only as a Privatdozent.

His 1874 Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint, considered his magnum opus, is credited with having reintroduced the medieval scholastic concept of intentionality into contemporary philosophy.

In 1874, Brentano published his major work, Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint. From 1874 to 1895, he taught at the University of Vienna, Austria-Hungary.

Brentano is best known for his reintroduction of the concept of intentionality-a concept derived from scholastic philosophy-to contemporary philosophy in his lectures and in his work Psychologie vom empirischen Standpunkt (Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint).

Franz Clemens Honoratus Hermann Josef Brentano (; German: [bʁɛnˈtaːno]; 16 January 1838 - 17 March 1917) was a German philosopher and psychologist.

From 1874 to 1895, he taught at the University of Vienna...Among his students were Edmund Husserl, Sigmund Freud, Tomas Masaryk, Rudolf Steiner, Alexius Meinong...and many others

From 1874 to 1895, he taught at the University of Vienna...Among his students were Edmund Husserl, Sigmund Freud, Tomas Masaryk, Rudolf Steiner, Alexius Meinong...and many others