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hatte es abgelehnt, sich selbst durch eine Scheidung von ihm in Sicherheit zu bringen) - es war
jedoch bereits zu spät. Die 'Endlösung des Judenproblems' riss Kurt und Greta GRELLING mit sich -
sie wurden in das KZ Auschwitz abtransportiert, wo sie am 18. September 1942 ankamen. Noch
am selben Tag oder kurz darauf wurden sie in den Gaskammern ermordet.
Eine neuere Zusammenstellung der Publikationen von GRELLING im Internet (von Volker
PECKHAUS) enthält mehr als 250 Arbeiten zwischen 1911 und 1922. GRELLING’s 1924
veröffentlichtes Buch über Mengenlehre wurde 1943 ins Spanische übersetzt. Das Interesse an
GRELLING’s Arbeit nimmt zu. Den Nazis ist es nicht gelungen, die Flamme zum Erlöschen zu
bringen!
Contents of the Biography
GRELLINGs Paradox, NELSON, and BORN
Lebenslauf and Family Matters
GRELLING, the Berlin Group, and REICHENBACH
OPPENHEIM and HEMPEL
The Final Years of Kurt GRELLING
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Notes
Kurt GRELLING (1886-1942) was probably best known for the paradox or antinomy that bears his
name; it was also called the "not autological" or the "heterological" paradox.[1] Paul OPPENHEIM
wrote to us in 1964 that GRELLING was famous for this paradox. In recent years GRELLING, as well
as OPPENHEIM, have become known for their analysis of Gestalt concepts. [The article on Gestalt
as a functional whole by GRELLING and OPPENHEIM and our Overview of it appeared in Gestalt
Theory, 21 (1/1999), pp. 49-54 and pp. 43-48 respectively.]
GRELLINGs Paradox, NELSON, and BORN
In the winter term 1905/1906, GRELLING came to study at the University of Göttingen, worldfamous
for mathematics and for the great David HILBERT (1862-1943). HILBERTs efforts to
axiomatize mathematics were shaken, as were the entire foundations of mathematics, by the
announcement in 1903 of Bertrand RUSSELLs antinomy or paradox.[2]
In a biography of HILBERT, Constance REID (1970) wrote:
By 1904, after its publication by RUSSELL, the antinomy was having - in HILBERTs opinion - a
"downright catastrophic effect" in mathematics. One after another, the great gifted workers in set
theory ... had all withdrawn from the field, conceding defeat. The simplest and most important
deductive methods, the most ordinary and fruitful concepts seemed to be threatened, for this
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