Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) was born in Vienna, youngest
of the nine children, to the second-richest family in Austria-Hungary. He was
introduced into a very extensive world of art at a rather young age. A few
friends of the family included sculptor Auguste Rodin, painter Gustav Klimt,
and composer Johannes Brahms and Gustav Mahler. Ludwig was educated at home
until the age of 14, he then attended a technical school (where he may or may
have not have been a classmate of Adolf Hitler) and then studied engineering in
Berlin and Manchester. At 22 he began studying with Bertrand Russel at
Cambridge, where he later taught, taking over G.E. Moore’s Chair when he
retired. He spent many years living in a Norwegian village, fighting in the
Austrian army in WWI, working as a gardener, and teaching elementary school in
a remote Austrian village.
Wittgenstein’s work in philosophy delved greatly into the
world of language. His studies on “family resemblance,” word games and his
Beetle in a Box theory are still greatly respected and explored today. These
studies spoke often on the connection between language and society and the
significance of individual perspective; the idea that humans are not built to
withstand merely on their own individual intellect, but rather to share their
ideas and more specifically their language with the rest of society. With this concept
he hoped to strengthen the bondage of human knowledge through greater means of
communication and present relationships.
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