Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein was an Austro-British philosopher who worked in logic, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of language.
Wittgenstein in 1929
Karl Wittgenstein was one of the richest men in Europe.
Palais Wittgenstein, the family home, around 1910
Ludwig, c. 1890s
David Pinsent
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David Hume Pinsent was a collaborator and an alleged lover of the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is dedicated to Pinsent's memory.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
…death of his older brother by suicide (the third of his older brothers to die by suicide during his lifetime), the death of his close friend and lover David Pinsent, and his imprisonment in an Italian prisoner of war camp—he became depressed, and he gave away his remaining fortune to his siblings. He worked as a…
15. David Pinsent
Pinsent sitting with signature below
Grave of David Hume Pinsent in the Victoria Road Cemetery in Farnborough, Hampshire