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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. | ||
Later, he spent some time (1913–1914) in Skjolden, Norway, where he wrote and dictated his first works on logic (the ''[[Notes on Logic]]'' and the ''[[ | Later, he spent some time (1913–1914) in Skjolden, Norway, where he wrote and dictated his first works on logic (the ''[[Notes on Logic]]'' and the ''[[Notes Dictated to G.E. Moore in Norway]]''). At the outbreak of World War I, he enlisted as a volunteer in the Austrian army. The war was one of the most revealing experiences of Wittgenstein’s life. Amid the harshness of the conflict, his first and only published work – the ''[[Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (English)|Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus]]'', completed during his imprisonment in Cassino (1918–1919) – came to light. The book was published in a first German edition, disapproved by the author, in 1921 and later in the English translation by Wittgenstein’s friend Frank Ramsey (1903–1930) in 1922. | ||
[[File:Wittgenstein Nahr profile.jpg|thumb|upright|left|link=|Ludwig Wittgenstein (Vienna, 1889 – Cambridge, 1951). Photo by Moritz Nähr.]] | [[File:Wittgenstein Nahr profile.jpg|thumb|upright|left|link=|Ludwig Wittgenstein (Vienna, 1889 – Cambridge, 1951). Photo by Moritz Nähr.]] | ||