Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Ludwig Wittgenstein 🇦🇹

Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein (Known as "The Master of Language and Logic")
Austrian-British Philosopher, Logician, Cambridge Professor
Born 26 April 1889 🇦🇹 Vienna, Austria
Passed Away 29 April 1951 Cambridge, United Kingdom
Lifespan 62 years old
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"The limits of my language mean the limits of my world. Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent."

Archival Overview

Austrian-British philosopher who revolutionized philosophy twice: with the logical atomism of the Tractatus and the ordinary language 'language games' of Philosophical Investigations.

Biographical Record

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951), born into one of the wealthiest industrialist families in Vienna, gave away his immense fortune to live in austere asceticism. Enlisting as a frontline artillery officer in World War I, he completed his groundbreaking Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus in military trenches and prisoner-of-war camps.

Believing he had solved all philosophical problems by showing that they arise from misunderstandings of language logic, he worked as an elementary school teacher before returning to Cambridge. There, he revolutionized philosophy a second time in his Philosophical Investigations, replacing formal logic with the concept of 'language games' (*Sprachspiele*).

Key Life Milestones

1921 CE

Publication of the 'Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus'

Published the only book during his lifetime, concluding: 'Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.'

1953 CE

Posthumous Publication of 'Philosophical Investigations'

Revolutionized 20th-century philosophy with the concepts of language games and meaning as use in life.

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Final Resting Place

Perpetual Memorial
Ascension Parish Burial Ground (Wittgenstein Tomb)
Cambridge, United Kingdom
GPS: 52.2186, 0.1064
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