While Husserl, more than any other pupil of Brentano and more than Brentano himself, has become one of the outstanding philosophical celebraties of the twentieth century, and while Meinong has achieved some sort of shady presence within analytical philosophy, the name of Anton Marty seldom arises in contemporary philosophical literature, whether this be systematic or historical.¹ Nevertheless, Marty was of considerable importance to Husserl. Much of Husserl's early thought, culminating in the Logische Untersuchungen, becomes more understandable if it is seen in relation to Marty's philosophical investigations.