Karl Popper - Short Biography

Biography Karl Popper

Karl Popper was born in 1902 on the 28th of July, in Vienna, Austria into a middle-class family with Jewish parents. Over the years, Karl Popper evolved from an assistant cabinet maker and school teacher, to one of the world's leading philosophers.

Karl Popper was attracted by the many intellectual experiences held in Vienna including music, physics, mathematics, and politics. Popper worked at the Alfred Alder children's clinic where he developed many ideas on philosophy. In 1928, Karl Popper got his Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Vienna, and became an equally social, and political philosopher. After WWII Popper immigrated to New Zealand from Austria, where he taught philosophy at Canterbury University College of Christchurch. In 1946 he became reader of logic and scientific method at the London School of Economics, where he was appointed professor in 1949.

In 1965, Karl Popper was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1965, and was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1976. He had retired from his academic life in 1969, and was now a Fellow of the British Academy, and Membre de I'Institute de France. He was also Honorary member of the Harvand Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, and an Honorary Fellow of the London School of Economics, King's College London, and of Darwin College Cambridge. He was awarded prizes and honours thorught the world including the Austrian Grand Decoration of Honour in Gold, Lippincott Award of the American Political Science Association, and the Sonning Prize for merit in work which had furthered European civilization. In 1982, Karl Popper invested by Queen Elizabeth II with the Insignia of a Companion of Honour in 1982.

September 17th 1994, the great philosopher, Karl Popper died, leaving behind the best works in philosophy which now has a life of its own.