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== Essential biography == | == Essential biography == | ||
Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein (Vienna, 26 April 1889 – Cambridge, 29 April 1951) was an Austrian philosopher who mostly worked and taught at the University of Cambridge. He is widely considered one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century. | Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein (Vienna, 26 April 1889 – Cambridge, 29 April 1951) was an Austrian-born philosopher who mostly worked and taught at the University of Cambridge. He is widely considered one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century. | ||
Born into a wealthy bourgeois family, he soon became acquainted with some of the most important figures of Viennese ''fin de siècle'' culture (Johannes Brahms, Gustav Klimt, Gustav Mahler, Karl Kraus). He completed his studies in mechanical engineering in Manchester, where he developed a keen interest in the works on logic and the philosophy of mathematics by Gottlob Frege (1948–1925) and Bertrand Russell (1872–1970). He therefore moved to Cambridge in 1911 to attend the lessons of Russell, who immediately noticed his sharp perspicacity, as well as his troubled attitude. | Born into a wealthy bourgeois family, he soon became acquainted with some of the most important figures of Viennese ''fin de siècle'' culture (Johannes Brahms, Gustav Klimt, Gustav Mahler, Karl Kraus). He completed his studies in mechanical engineering in Manchester, where he developed a keen interest in the works on logic and the philosophy of mathematics by Gottlob Frege (1948–1925) and Bertrand Russell (1872–1970). He therefore moved to Cambridge in 1911 to attend the lessons of Russell, who immediately noticed his sharp perspicacity, as well as his troubled attitude. | ||