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......

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Title: Karl Popper - Short Biography
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