In the footsteps of Julius König's paradox (Q5962966)

The paper is devoted to the history of König's paradox. It was first mentioned in his paper from 1905 and states that there is a number that at the same time is and is not finitely definable. This paradox was used by König for (trying to) prove that the continuum was not well-ordered, and only later he shifted the focus to the contradiction itself and tried to find solutions. After giving some biographical information, \textit{J. König}'s 1904 talk at the Third International Mathematical Congress in Heidelberg [Verh. d. 3. intern. Math. Kongr. Heidelb., 144--147 (1905; JFM 36.0096.01)] is presented. Next, his 1905 paper [Math. Ann. 61, 156--160 (1905; JFM 36.0097.02)] and reactions to it are described. Furthermore, his 1906 paper [Math. Ann. 63, 217--221 (1906; JFM 37.0072.05)] is discussed. It was criticized by some authors (in particular criticism of Vivanti, Hessenberg, Schoenflies, Poincaré, Peano and Zermelo). Finally, \textit{J. König}'s paradox in his book [Neue Grundlagen der Logik, Arithmetik und Mengenlehre. Leipzig: Veit \& Comp (1914; JFM 45.0124.01)] is discussed -- in this book, he tried to develop Poincaré's idea of founding mathematics on intuition. It should be added that the paper under review contains an extensive bibliography.