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At the University of Leipzig from 1876 to 1878, Husserl studied mathematics, physics, and astronomy.

At Leipzig he was inspired by philosophy lectures given by Wilhelm Wundt, one of the founders of modern psychology.

Then he moved to the Humboldt University of Berlin ( then called the Friedrich William University ) in 1878 where he continued his study of mathematics under Leopold Kronecker and the renowned Karl Weierstrass.

In Berlin he found a mentor in Thomas Masaryk, then a former philosophy student of Franz Brentano and later the first president of Czechoslovakia.

There Husserl also attended Friedrich Paulsen's philosophy lectures.

In 1881 he left for the University of Vienna to complete his mathematics studies under the supervision of Leo Königsberger ( a former student of Weierstrass ).

At Vienna in 1883 he obtained his Ph. D. with the work Beiträge zur Variationsrechnung (" Contributions to the Calculus of Variations ").