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Robert A. Kann, who edited a comprehensive book (1984) on Heinrich Gomperz's father, the classical philologist Theodor Gomperz, offered a description of the latter that could also, with slight modifications, be applied to the son: "The life of a scholar in the bourgeoisie of the era of Emperor Franz Josef" (and of the First Republic, one would have to say, referring to Heinrich Gomperz, or "Harry" as he was known). Gomperz (1873–1942) was a typical representative of the assimilated, social-liberal Jewry which saw itself as "German,' not in the sense of völkisch-nationalist movements but in the sense of a uniform community of language and culture. To what extent the life and academic career of Heinrich Gomperz was informed by this attitude can be traced in his biography, which ends with his emigration to the United States (H. Gomperz, Philosophical Studies, hg. von Daniel S. Robinson, Boston, 1953).

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-16561-5_7

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