ABSTRACT
Alexius Meinong's ancestors came from Southwestern Germany. Late in the 18th century they emigrated to Austria. By the time Meinong entered the University of Vienna at the age of seventeen, he had decided at first to study German philology and history. In autumn 1882, Meinong was unexpectedly appointed Professor Extraordinarius at the University of Graz. It was that Meinong continued his seminars under the name of Philosophische Societat in Vienna. Meinong's works on object theory are characterized in their style of research by a repeated critical evaluation as well as by their continuity in developing a scientific idea, as only rarely found among reserarch workers. Meinong and E. Husserl correspondend with each other periodically between 1891 and 1904. With the Selbstdarstellung that Meinong had been asked to write for Felix Meiner publishers, he wanted to account to future generations what he had achieved during his academic career.
