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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Philosopher

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Changing how philosophers think about language, meaning and understanding.

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus · Language-games

Born
26 April 1889
Birthplace
Vienna, Austria
Died
29 April 1951

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ludwig Wittgenstein was an Austrian-British philosopher whose early and later works took strikingly different approaches to language.

Early life

Engineering

Studied technical subjects before turning to logic.

Cambridge

Worked with Bertrand Russell before the First World War.

Career

  1. 1910s

    Early philosophy

    Developed the ideas of the Tractatus.

  2. 1920s

    Outside academia

    Worked as a schoolteacher and on other projects.

  3. 1929 onward

    Cambridge return

    Developed the later philosophy of language and use.

Ideas & writings

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Examined the limits of meaningful representation.

Language-games

Explored language as part of human activities.

Philosophical Investigations

His major later work appeared after his death.

Beyond work

Wealth

Gave away his inherited fortune.

Wartime work

Worked in medical settings during the Second World War.

Sources & photo creditLife, career and references ↗

Photo: Moritz Nähr. Public domain · Original image. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.