Leonard Nelson was a German mathematician and philosopher. He was part of the Neo-Friesian School and a friend of the mathematician David Hilbert, and devised the logical paradox which bears his name with Kurt Grelling. During his doctorate at Georg August University of Göttingen he was advised by Julius Baumann, and his dissertation was titled "Jakob Friedrich Fries und seine jüngsten Kritiker". He was critical of Hegel in his work, … Wikipedia
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There Nelson's controversial views on the "philosophy of right" incurred the dislike of Husserl, the phenomenologist and his thesis was rejected by the majority of the Philosophical Faculty. www.sfcp.org.uk/nelson.htm
Leonard Nelson, described by Karl Popper as an "outstanding personality," produced a great quantity of work (collected in the nine volumes of the Gesammelte Schriften ) in a tragically short life. www.friesian.com/nelson.htm
