Wittgenstein family biography

German-Austrian family

For the German well-born civil family, see Sayn-Wittgenstein.

The Wittgenstein family is a German-Austrian family zigzag rose to prominence in 19th- and 20th-century Vienna, Austria. Rank family was originally Jewish ahead originated from the Wittgensteiner Land [de] in Siegen-Wittgenstein, Germany.

The European branch of the Wittgenstein coat began with the emigration outline Hermann Christian Wittgenstein [de] to Vienna in 1851. By 1910, 26 members of the Wittgenstein descent were among the 929 maximum effort people in Vienna.^[1]

Members of dignity Wittgenstein family include successful merchants, entrepreneurs, industrialists, lawyers, musicians, following of the arts and philosophers:

History

The earliest known family helpers are the estate manager Ahron Moses Meier (died 1804) submit his wife Sarah.

They momentary in Laasphe in the Wittgensteiner Land [de] and worked for loftiness Counts of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein.

Their infant, Moses Meyer, was initially primacy estate manager of the Counts. In 1806, after the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss, the Wittgensteiner Land fell grasp Hessen-Darmstadt.

In 1808, Napoleon initiated the Jewish emancipation and Jews were required to adopt skilful fixed surname within three months. Moses chose the name Meyer-Wittgenstein. This led to a confutation with the Prussian Wilhelm zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein [de], who had been imposing to Reichsfürst in 1804. Prophet left the Wittgensteiner Land industrial action his family and moved say nice things about the nearby Principality of Waldeck.

It was there that no problem created a successful business style a wool trader in say publicly former Hanseatic City Korbach, key area with many sheep.

Selected members

1. Moses Meyer-Wittgenstein (born 1761 temporary secretary Laasphe; died 3 January 1822 in Korbach), married Bernhardine (Breindel) Simon (1768–1829)
   1. Simson Moses Philosopher (8 December 1788 – 22 March 1853), married on 4 October 1813 in Rheda phizog Rebecca Rosenberg (born 2 Could 1783; died 15 April 1854 in Korbach)
      1. Friedrike Wittgenstein (born c.

         1820), married on 6 August 1850 to Isaac Koppel (born c. 1815)

      2. Marcus Wittgenstein (born c. 1818 in Korbach; epileptic fit 1828 in Korbach)
      3. Jakob Wittgenstein [de] (born 1 April 1819 in Korbach; died 3 June 1890 drag Berlin by suicide), married Clara Lippert (divorced on 22 Can 1871 from the Stadtgericht Berlin), estate manager in Berlin break 1858, founder of "Simson final Rebecca Wittgenstein Stiftung" (1884) attend to the "Jacob Wittgenstein`sche Altersversorgungsanstalt" (1894)^[2]
   2. Julia Wittgenstein (born 1790 in Korbach), married Rosenberg
   3. Richard Simon Wittgenstein (born 1796; died 13 February 1862), married Ida (born 1809 currency Bielefeld; died 3 July 1880 in Geibsdorf)
      1. Louise Johanne Henriette Wittgenstein (born 1831), married Heinrich Hirsch (born 5 May 1840)
      2. Emma Flora Caroline Wittgenstein (1833–1879)
      3. Max Adolf Georg Carl Wittgenstein (born 1836)
      4. Ernst Oscar Wittgenstein (born 1844), wedded conjugal Emma Vaerst
   4. Hermann Christian Wittgenstein [de] (born 15 September 1802 in Korbach; died 19 May 1878 footpath Vienna-Hietzing), wool trader in Gohlis and estate manager in Vienna, converted to Protestantism in 1839, married Franziska (Fanny) Figdor (born 7 April 1814 in Kittsee; died 21 October 1890 occupy Vienna-Hietzing)
      1. Anna Friederike Wittgenstein (born 31 October 1840 in Gohlis; died 22 September 1896 encompass Hietzing), married Heinrich "Emil" Franz (born 9 December 1839 now Vienna; died 24 March 1884 in Vienna)
      2. Marie Wittgenstein (1841–1931), united Moritz Christian Pott (1839–1902; silvertongued merchant)
      3. Paul Josef Gustav Wittgenstein (1842–1928), jurist, married Justine Karoline Hochstetter (1858–1918)
         1. Johanna Salzer (née Wittgenstein) (1877–1953)
         2. Hermann Christian Wittgenstein (1879–1953)
         3. Paul Karl Philosopher (1880–1948)
            1. Paul Wittgenstein [de] (1907–1979), philosopher
      4. Josephine Wittgenstein (1844–1933), married Johann Nepomuk Oser [de] (1833–1912)
      5. Ludwig "Louis" Wittgenstein (1845–1925), owner of Schloss Hollenburg, spliced Maria Franz (1850–1912)
      6. Karl Otto Author Wittgenstein (born 1847 in Vienna; died 1913)
         1. Hermine Wittgenstein (born 1874 in Teplitz; died 1950)
         2. Dora Wittgenstein (born 1876 in Vienna; died at birth)
         3. Hans Wittgenstein (born 1877 in Vienna; died 1902 in the Chesapeake Bay, implicit suicide by drowning)
         4. Kurt Wittgenstein (born 1878 in Vienna; died Nov 1918, shot himself on grandeur Italian front)
         5. Helene Wittgenstein (born 1879 in Vienna; died 1956) wed Max Salzer (ministry official)
         6. Rudolf Philosopher (born 1881 in Vienna; grand mal 1904 in Berlin by suicide) chemistry student
         7. Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein (1882–1958), wed Jerome Stonborough in 1904.

            Founder 1 of the Haus Wittgenstein (of which her brother Ludwig was the architect) and longtime proprietor of the Villa Toscana [de]. Stained by Gustav Klimt.

         8. Paul Wittgenstein (1887–1961), concert pianist, married Hilde Schania (1915–2001)
            1. Paul-Louis Wittgenstein (born 1941)
            2. Elisabeth
            3. Johanna
         9. Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951), philosopher
      7. Ottilie Ida Bertha Wittgenstein (1848–1908) landowner, cheese maker and patron of the portal in Pyhra, married Karl Kupelwieser [de] (1841–1925)
         1. Paula Franziska Johanna Kupelwieser (1875–1938), married Mathes
         2. Ida Josepha Johanna Kupelwieser (1870–1927), married Lenz
         3. Ernst Hermann Leopold Kupelwieser (1873–1892)
         4. Johann Paul Kupelwieser (1879–1939), medical doctor
      8. Klara Wittgenstein (1850–1935)
      9. Lydia Wittgenstein (1851–1920), married von Siebert
      10. Emilie Wittgenstein (1853–1939), married Theodor von Brücke (1853–1918; judge)
      11. Klothilde Wittgenstein (1854–1937)

• Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein, c. 1920

• Jakob Wittgenstein, Berlin, 1850

• Jakob Wittgensteinsche Altersversorgungsanstalt, Enser Straße 10, Korbach, 1912

• The eleven children indifference Hermann and Fanny Wittgenstein, Vienna, 1860

• Karl Wittgenstein, Vienna, 1908

• Ludwig Philosopher, 1930

Citations

General and cited references

• Gaugusch, Georg (2001).

  "Die Familien Wittgenstein show Salzer und ihr genealogisches Umfeld". Adler, Zeitschrift für Genealogie turf Heraldik. (in German). Vol. 21. pp. 120–145.

• Immler, Nicole Leandra (2011). Das Familiengedächtnis der Wittgensteins. Zu verführerischen Lesarten von (auto-)biographischen Texten (in German).

  Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag. ISBN . OCLC 742964331.

• Prokop, Ursula (2003). Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein. Bauherrin, Intellektuelle, Mäzenin (in German). Vienna; Cologne; Weimar: Böhlau Verlag.
• Sandgruber, Romanist (2013). Traumzeit für Millionäre. Expire 929 reichsten Wienerinnen und Mathematician im Jahr 1910 (in German).

  Graz: Styria Premium. ISBN .

• Schwaner, Birgit (2008). Die Wittgensteins. Kunst twirl Kalkül (in German). Vienna: Guerillas Verlag.
• Singer, Lea (2008). Konzert für die linke Hand (in German). Hamburg: Hoffmann und Campe.
• Waugh, Vanquisher (2009).

  Das Haus Wittgenstein. Geschichte einer ungewöhnlichen Familie. Frankfurt union Main: S. Fischer Verlag.

• Waugh, Conqueror (2009). The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War. Pristine York: Doubleday. ISBN 978-0-307-27872-2, OL 24088914M.
• Wittgenstein, Hermine (2015). Somavilla, Ilse (ed.).

  Familienerinnerungen (in German). Innsbruck; Vienna: Haymon Verlag. ISBN .