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Friedrich Albert Moritz Schlick was born in Berlin, Germany to a wealthy family. Encyclopædia Britannica, inc. (n.d.). Moritz Schlick. Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved October 22, 2022, from https://www.britannica.com/biography/Moritz-Schlick
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In 1904, Moritz Schlick received his PhD.
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Dr. Moritz Schlick married Blanche Hardy at their family home. The wedding event was covered by the Fitchburg Daily Sentinel. Ray, Danielle. “Ashburnham Wedding Portraits Mimic Ones Taken 115 Years Ago in Same Spot.” Sentinel and Enterprise, Sentinel and Enterprise, 22 Oct. 2022, www.sentinelandenterprise.com/2022/10/22/ashburnham-wedding-portraits-mimic-ones-taken-115-years-ago-in-same-spot/. -
He published Space and Time in Contemporary Physics, which discussed the new findings concerning the Laws of Relativity. It was highly acclaimed by Einstein himself and many others. Oberdan, Thomas. “Moritz Schlick.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford University, 13 Oct. 2017, plato.stanford.edu/entries/schlick/. -
Schlick, M. (1918). Allgemeine Erkenntnislehre, von Moritz Schlick. J. Springer, 1918. -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e1gdGluXI8 Logical Positivism is “the view that scientific knowledge is the only kind of factual knowledge and that all traditional metaphysical doctrines are to be rejected as meaningless.” (“logical positivism | philosophy | Britannica”) “Logical Positivism.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., www.britannica.com/topic/logical-positivism. -
The Vienna Circle met once weekly during academic terms from 1924 - 1936, under the leadership of Dr. Moritz Schlick. "The Vienna Circle was a group of early twentieth-century philosophers who sought to reconceptualize empiricism by means of their interpretation of then recent advances in the physical and formal sciences." (Uebel, 2020) Uebel, Thomas. “Vienna Circle.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford University, 1 Apr. 2020, plato.stanford.edu/entries/vienna-circle/. -
As he was leaving class, Dr. Moritz was shot and murdered by a former student named Johann Nelböck. Johann, who suffered from paranoid schizophrenia, had threatened Dr. Moritz for years before his murder. Oberdan, Thomas. “Moritz Schlick.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford University, 13 Oct. 2017, plato.stanford.edu/entries/schlick/#Dea.