Who founded the phenomenological movement in philosophy?

The phenomenological movement in philosophy was founded by the German mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl.12

While the term "phenomenology" had been used by earlier thinkers such as Johann Heinrich Lambert and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, the specific philosophical movement did not emerge until the early 20th century under Husserl’s leadership. Husserl developed the phenomenological method, which seeks to provide a descriptive account of the essential structures of conscious experience, free from metaphysical or empirical assumptions.312

The movement gained international prominence with the publication of the Jahrbuch für Philosophie und phänomenologische Forschung (1913–1930), which Husserl edited. This platform brought together various thinkers, including Martin Heidegger, Max Scheler, and others, who applied the phenomenological approach to diverse fields such as ontology, aesthetics, and the philosophy of law.14