Alois Höfler

He was seen by the logical positivist Otto Neurath as an important link between Bernard Bolzano's work and the Vienna Circle.

[3] In the fall of 1871, Höfler entered the University of Vienna where he studied mathematics and physics with Ludwig Boltzmann and Josef Stefan.

[4] After his teaching examination in 1876 at the age of 23, he taught in the Josefstädter-gymnasium and other gymnasiums (advanced secondary schools) in Vienna.

[1][5] He received his doctoral degree in 1885,[2][6] under Meinong supervision in Graz,[7][8] with a thesis titled Some Laws of Incompatibility between Judgments.

From 1881 to 1903 he taught mathematics, physics and philosophical propaedeutics at the grammar school of the Theresian Academy in Vienna.