Ludwig Wittgenstein – Biographical information from Henze-Digital

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Wittgenstein in 1929 (Source: Wikimedia)

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April 26, 1889 in Wien
†

April 29, 1951 in Cambridge
Philosoph, Pädagoge

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Wittgenstein in 1929 (Source: Wikimedia)

Karl Wittgenstein was one of the richest men in Europe.[15] (Source: Wikimedia)

Palais Wittgenstein, the family home, around 1910 (Source: Wikimedia)

Ludwig, c. 1890s (Source: Wikimedia)

Ludwig sitting in a field as a child (Source: Wikimedia)

From left, Helene, Rudi, Hermine, Ludwig (the baby), Gretl, Paul, Hans, and Kurt, around 1890 (Source: Wikimedia)

Ludwig (bottom-right), Paul, and their sisters, late 1890s (Source: Wikimedia)

The Realschule in Linz (Source: Wikimedia)

Austrian philosopher Otto Weininger (1880–1903) (Source: Wikimedia)

Class photograph at the Realschule in 1901, a young Adolf Hitler in the last row on the right. In the penultimate row, third from the right, a student who is believed to be Ludwig Wittgenstein. (Source: Wikimedia)

Ludwig Wittgenstein, aged about eighteen (Source: Wikimedia)

The old Technische Hochschule Berlin in Charlottenburg, Berlin (Source: Wikimedia)

Wittgenstein with his friend William Eccles at the Kite-Flying Station in Glossop, Derbyshire, Summer 1908 (Source: Wikimedia)

Wittgenstein, 1910s (Source: Wikimedia)

Bertrand Russell, 1907 (Source: Wikimedia)

Wittgenstein sitting with his friends and family in Vienna. Marguerite Respinger sits at the end on the left and the sculpture he made of her sits behind him on the mantel-place. (Source: Wikimedia)

David Pinsent (Source: Wikimedia)

Entries from October 1914 in Wittgenstein's diary, on display at the Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge (Source: Wikimedia)

The restored house of Ludwig Wittgenstein in Skjolden, Norway. Photo by Vadim Chuprina (2024) (Source: Wikimedia)

Austro-Hungarian supply line over the Vršič Pass, on the Italian front, October 1917 (Source: Wikimedia)

Wittgenstein's military identity card during the First World War (Source: Wikimedia)

The Wittgenstein family in Vienna, Summer 1917, with Kurt (furthest left) and Ludwig (furthest right) in officers' uniforms (Source: Wikimedia)

Ludwig Wittgenstein, schoolteacher, c. 1922 (Source: Wikimedia)

Frank P. Ramsey visited Wittgenstein in Puchberg am Schneeberg in September 1923. (Source: Wikimedia)

Wittgenstein, 1925 (Source: Wikimedia)

Wittgenstein worked on Haus Wittgenstein between 1926 and 1929. (Source: Wikimedia)

Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1930 (Source: Wikimedia)

Photograph showing Wittgenstein's house in Norway, sent by Wittgenstein to G. E. Moore, October 1936 (Source: Wikimedia)

Plaque in the National Botanic Gardens, Dublin, commemorating Wittgenstein's visits in the winter of 1948–1949 (Source: Wikimedia)

The plaque at "Storey's End", 76 Storey's Way, Cambridge, where Wittgenstein died (Source: Wikimedia)

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Hans Werner Henze's network of artists. Digital letter edition, https://henze-digital.zenmem.de/A00103D5 (Version 6.0.1 of October 30, 2024)
Last change of this document on October 28, 2024

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