In celebration of International Women’s Day, we felt it appropriate to acknowledge the work of the female students of Edmund Husserl or women in some way associated with the early phenomenological movement.  Not all of these women were phenomenologists, but many of them contributed directly or indirectly to philosophy, psychology, mathematics, and women’s rights.

In our Reading Room, you will find writings by a handful of these women.  It is our sincere hope that in the future we will be able to provide comprehensive access to the extant materials by all of the women who were involved in the early phenomenological movement.  We would ask that anyone who has access and the rights to such materials to contact us.  With your support, perhaps a future NASEP event could be dedicated to the women of early phenomenology.

Here is a list of just some of these women, so that they can be known by name rather than simply as Husserl’s female students.  Please let us know the names of anyone we have missed.

Hannah Arendt
Charlotte Bühler (née Malachowski)
Ilse Busse-Proesler
Margarete Calinich
Hedwig Conrad-Martius
Erika Gothe
Käte Hamburger
Rosa Heine-Katz
Elizabeth Heymann
Anna Hoffa
Amalie (Adelgundis) Jaegerschmid
Frau Lande
Zagorka Mićić
Maria Offenberg
Margarete Ortmann
Frau Ortner
Frau Pluicke
Elisabeth Rohde
Erica Sehl
Edith Stein
Frau Tischendorfer
Else Voigtländer
Gerda Walther
Helene Weyl (née Joseph)