Ludwig Wittgenstein

Biography

Ludwig Wittgenstein was an Austro-British philosopher born into one of Europe's richest families. He studied at the University of Cambridge under Bertrand Russell, inheriting a fortune that he later donated to artists and poets, including the start of his first significant philosophical work. Following World War I, Wittgenstein enlisted in the Austro-Hungarian Army, facing personal struggles and financial loss, before working as a schoolteacher in Vienna.