Husserl, Edmund 1859-1938

Founded in 1939 by H.L. Van Breda, the Archive at Leuven is the central repository of Husserl's manuscripts, philosophical library and correspondence. Since 2017 under the direction of Professor Julia Jansen, the Husserl-Archive is available to scholars interested in studying these important colllections. KU Leuven and the Archive, in particular, are important research centers for phenomenology in their own right.

See especially the digitization project: digitalHusserl.

• People
  • guest researchers
• Research
  • editions and publications
• Visit
  • history and aims
    • past editions of the Mitteilungsblatt (yearly newsletter, now defunct)
  • about us
• Events
  • Podcasts
• Subscribe to mailing list
• Links of interest
  • Husserl Archives Leuven Facebook page

Address:

KU Leuven
Husserl-Archief te Leuven
Kardinaal Mercierplein 2
B - 3000 Leuven
Belgium
Tel. + 32 (0)16 - 32 63 28 (possibly outdated)
email: husserl.archives@kuleuven.be

Founded in 1951, the Kölner archive works closely with the main Leuven archive to edit and produce new Husserliana volumes. The Kölner archive is also an important center for phenomenological research in Germany.

Under the directorship of Prof. Dr. Thiemo Breyer and Prof. Dr. Andreas Hättemann (Prof. Dr. Dieter Lohmar, Direktor emeritus), das Kölner Husserl Archive has a dynamic and robust research and publication program. The website is especially rich. contains the following sets of internal pages. All pages are in German.

• About the Husserl-Archiv
  • Edmund Husserl - Leben und Werk (life and work)
  • Husserls Nachlass (literary estate)
    includes examples of Gabelsberger Stenographie
• Aktivitäten des Husserl-Archivs (2017–2022)
  • Gesammelte Werke (editions)
  • Completed projects by the Kölner Archive
• Personen (staff and contact info)
• Bibliothek (library)
  • Holdings - includes folders of current editions and transcriptions of all unpublished manuscripts in its core collection
  • Hours
  • Catalog and Directories
• Events
  • Summer School
  • Arbeitstage
  • Conferences & Workshops
  • Phenomenology Working Group
  • Phenomenological Workshop
  • Philosophical Seminars
• Projekte
  • Erfahrung u. Ureil (Experience and Judgment)
    editor - Prof. Dr. Jagna Brudzińska
  • Späte Manuskripte zur Raumkonsitution (Late manuscrpts on the constitution of space)
    editor - Prof. Dr. Dieter Lohmar
  • Urschriften der Ideen II & III (Original articulations of Ideas II & III)
    editor - Dr. Dirk Fonfara
• Publications
• Resources
  (see especially, Materialien zu Husserls Manuskripten)

Under the Directorship of Prof. Dr. Inga Römer, a position previously held by Prof. Dr. Hans-Helmuth Gander, this archive in Freiburg microfiche copies of all of Husserl's manuscripts available to researchers. Working in cooperation with Leuven, the Freiburg archive attempts to make Husserl's complete literary estate more fully accessible.

Their website includes the following links:

• Aktuelles (news)
• Kurze Geschichte (brief history)
  • Husserl Biographie (brief history)
• Colloquium Phaenomenologicum
  • CP: archived programs
• Tagungen (events)
• Gastforscher(-innen) (guest researchers)
  • Ehemalige am Archiv (former researchers)
• Links

See also: Bernhard Waldenfels-Archiv housed at the Husserl-Archiv Freiburg.

Address:

Husserl-Archiv an der Universität Freiburg
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Kollegiengebäude I
Räume 1195-1197
Platz der Universität 3
79098 Freiburg
Tel. + 49 (0)761 - 203-2427
email: husserlarchiv@philosophie.uni-freiburg.de
Hilfskräfte: Jonas Brase (B.A.), Esther Bloch (M.Sc.)

Under the Directorship of Prof. Dominique Pradelle, Located at the École normale supérieure, this archival resource provides opportunities for serious research on copies of Husserl's manuscripts.

The robust Pays Germaniques website includes the following Archive-specific links:

• Research - Husserl Archives Team
  • Axe 1 – Phénoménologie allemande et théorie de la connaissance
    (Researchers: Michel Bitbol, Julien Farges, Dominique Pradelle, Mark van Atten)
  • Axe 2 – Anthropologie, éthologie et phénoménologie
    (Researchers: Florence Burgat, Marc Crépon, Dominique Lestel, Jean-Claude Monod and Christian Sommer)
  • Axe 3 – Phénoménologie franççaise d’hier et d’aujourd’hui
    (Researchers: Michel Bitbol, Emmanuel de Saint Aubert, Dorothée Legrand)
  • Axe 4 – Psychanalyse, psychiatrie phénoménologique, psychopathologie clinique
    (Researchers: Dorothée Legrand, Emmanuel de Saint Aubert, Michel Bitbol et Natalie Depraz, Florence Burgat)
• Séminaires • Archives Husserl
• Colloques Archives Husserl (conferences)
• Bibliothèque des Archives Husserl
  Les doctorants et chercheurs travaillant dans le domaine et dont la recherche le justifie peuvent demander au Directeur des Archives l’autorisation de consulter le fonds, dans la limite des places disponibles.
  • Contact et informations (01 44 32 30 09)
  • Horaires et informations pratiques
  • Catalogue
  • Collection HAL de l’UMR
  • Portail HAL de l’ENS

Address:

École normale supérieure
Archives Husserl
45 rue d’Ulm
75230 Paris - cedex 005
Tel. +33 (0)1 44 32 30 09
Fax: +33 (0)1 44 32 31 22

The goal of the Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center at Duquesne University is to promote and facilitate original phenomenological research, and thereby add to the corpus of literature in all disciplines, especially in continental philosophy, psychology as a human science, the philosophy and ethics of communication and rhetoric, and theology. The Husserl Archives are but one of several important archival holdings hosted by the Simon Silverman Center. The Center is an official branch of the Husserl Archives of the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. The unpublished transcribed papers of Husserl are available for consultation at the Center.

Address:

Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center
The Gumberg Library at Duquesne University
600 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15282
Tel. +1 (412) 396-6038
email: phenomenology@duq.edu

Established in Memory of Alfred Schutz, the Husserl Archives at The New School offers scholars access to copies of transcriptions of Husserl’s unpublished writings from the Husserl Archives in Leuven, Belgium. It also organizes small research groups and seminars that bring together students and scholars from around the world who are working on topics related to phenomenological philosophy. The archive also houses two catalogues to Husserl's personal library, housed in Leuven.

Address:

The Husserl Archives at the New School
email: Professor James Dodd at doddj@newschool.edu