ABSTRACT
As a Privatdozent at the University of Halle (1887-1901), Edmund Husserl received no salary from public funds, but, aside from modest earnings from lecture fees, had to finance himself with private funds—hence the term ‘Privatdozent’. This he was quite able to do since he had a proportionate share of the proceeds from the men’s clothing factory his father, in the meantime deceased, had established in Prossnitz. At the same time, the philosophical faculty in Halle saw to it that he received a Privatdozent fellowship from the government for the longest possible period of five years (from April 1, 1893 to March 31, 1898). Beyond that, the faculty awarded him the University of Halle’s Marperger Fellowship (which was, to be sure, much less well endowed) from December 1896 to May 1898.
