Husserl’s archive narrowly escaped moving to Prague before the war

Evidence

Earlier that decade, when her husband was still alive but after the Nazi takeover, they had discussed moving his documents to Prague, where it seemed they might be safer. A former student of Husserl, the Czech phenomenologist Jan Patočka, was willing to help arrange this. It did not happen, which was fortunate as the papers would not have been safe at all. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 407

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Brentano’s papers were rescued on the last civilian plane out of Prague — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 423; Masaryk’s patronage made Prague a phenomenological research center — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 408

Broader Connections

• Masaryk’s patronage made Prague a phenomenological research center #responds-to (0.75) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 408