Adolf Bernhard Philipp Reinach was a German philosopher, phenomenologist and law theorist.
10 Facts About Adolf Reinach
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Adolf Reinach was born into a prominent Jewish family in Mainz, Germany, on 23 December 1883.
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Adolf Reinach studied at the Ostergymnasium in Mainz and later entered the University of Munich in 1901 where he studied mainly psychology and philosophy under Theodor Lipps.
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In 1904, Reinach obtained his doctorate in philosophy under Lipps with his work Uber den Ursachenbegriff im geltenden Strafrecht.
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Adolf Reinach attended several lectures and seminars on penal law by the legal theorist Ernst Beling, by which he was quite impressed and to which he owes a great deal of inspiration of his later works.
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On his turn Adolf Reinach appears to have inspired several young phenomenologists with his lectures.
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Besides his work in the area of phenomenology and philosophy in general, Adolf Reinach is credited for the development of a forerunner to the theory of speech acts by Austin and Searle: Die apriorischen Grundlagen des burgerlichen Rechtes is a systematic treatment of social acts as performative utterances and a priori foundations of civil law.
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Adolf Reinach's work was based mostly on Husserl's analysis of meaning in the Logical Investigations, but on Daubert's criticism of it.
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At the outbreak of World War I Adolf Reinach volunteered to join the army.
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Some on-line texts and translations of works by Adolf Reinach are available here.