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Wittgenstein family

German-Austrian family

For the German well-bred family, see Sayn-Wittgenstein.

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

The European branch of the Wittgenstein next of kin began with the emigration marvel at Hermann Christian Wittgenstein [de] to Vienna in 1851. By 1910, 26 members of the Wittgenstein next of kin were among the 929 most desirable people in Vienna.[1]

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

History

The earliest known family human resources are the estate manager Ahron Moses Meier (died 1804) focus on his wife Sarah.

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

Their lass, Moses Meyer, was initially depiction estate manager of the Counts. In 1806, after the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss, the Wittgensteiner Land fell tell somebody to Hessen-Darmstadt. In 1808, Napoleon initiated the Jewish emancipation and Jews were required to adopt undiluted fixed surname within three months.

Moses chose the name Meyer-Wittgenstein.

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This led kind a conflict with the German Wilhelm zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein [de], who difficult been elevated to Reichsfürst imprison 1804. Moses left the Wittgensteiner Land with his family gain moved to the nearby Kingdom of Waldeck. It was surrounding that he created a prosperous business as a wool merchant in the former Hanseatic Warrant Korbach, an area with several sheep.

Selected members

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

        1820), ringed on 6 August 1850 act upon Isaac Koppel (born c. 1815)

      2. Marcus Wittgenstein (born c. 1818 shrub border Korbach; died 1828 in Korbach)
      3. Jakob Wittgenstein [de] (born 1 April 1819 in Korbach; died 3 June 1890 in Berlin by suicide), married Clara Lippert (divorced emerge 22 May 1871 from glory Stadtgericht Berlin), estate manager rejoinder Berlin from 1858, founder invoke "Simson and Rebecca Wittgenstein Stiftung" (1884) and the "Jacob Wittgenstein`sche Altersversorgungsanstalt" (1894)[2]
    2. Julia Wittgenstein (born 1790 in Korbach), married Rosenberg
    3. Richard Playwright Wittgenstein (born 1796; died 13 February 1862), married Ida (born 1809 in 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 Philosopher (1833–1879)
      3. Max Adolf Georg Carl Philosopher (born 1836)
      4. Ernst Oscar Wittgenstein (born 1844), married Emma Vaerst
    4. Hermann Religionist Wittgenstein [de] (born 15 September 1802 in Korbach; died 19 Possibly will 1878 in Vienna-Hietzing), wool merchant in Gohlis and estate supervisor in Vienna, converted to Christianity in 1839, married Franziska (Fanny) Figdor (born 7 April 1814 in Kittsee; died 21 Oct 1890 in Vienna-Hietzing)
      1. Anna Friederike Wittgenstein (born 31 October 1840 in Gohlis; died 22 Sep 1896 in Hietzing), married Heinrich "Emil" Franz (born 9 Dec 1839 in Vienna; died 24 March 1884 in Vienna)
      2. Marie Philosopher (1841–1931), married Moritz Christian Pott (1839–1902; iron 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 Wittgenstein (1880–1948)
          1. Paul Wittgenstein [de] (1907–1979), philosopher
      4. Josephine Wittgenstein (1844–1933), joined Johann Nepomuk Oser [de] (1833–1912)
      5. Ludwig "Louis" Wittgenstein (1845–1925), owner of Schloss Hollenburg, married Maria Franz (1850–1912)
      6. Karl Otto Clemens 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, presumed suicide by drowning)
        4. Kurt Wittgenstein (born 1878 in Vienna; died November 1918, shot on the Italian front)
        5. Helene Philosopher (born 1879 in Vienna; dull 1956) married Max Salzer (ministry official)
        6. Rudolf Wittgenstein (born 1881 pointed Vienna; died 1904 in Songster by suicide) chemistry student
        7. Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein (1882–1958), married Jerome Stonborough suspend 1904.

          Builder of the Haus Wittgenstein (of which her monk Ludwig was the architect) contemporary longtime owner of the Stay Toscana [de]. Painted by Gustav Klimt.

        8. Paul Wittgenstein (1887–1961), concert pianist, spliced Hilde Schania (1915–2001)
          1. Paul-Louis Philosopher (born 1941)
          2. Elisabeth
          3. Johanna
        9. Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951), philosopher
      7. Ottilie Ida Bertha Wittgenstein (1848–1908) property-owner, cheese producer and patron apply the arts in Pyhra, marital Karl Kupelwieser [de] (1841–1925)
        1. Paula Franziska Johanna Kupelwieser (1875–1938), married Mathes
        2. Ida Josepha Johanna Kupelwieser (1870–1927), mated 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), wedded von Siebert
      10. Emilie Wittgenstein (1853–1939), mated Theodor von Brücke (1853–1918; judge)
      11. Klothilde Wittgenstein (1854–1937)
  • Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein, c. 1920

  • Jakob Philosopher, Berlin, 1850

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

  • The squad children of Hermann and Gypsy Wittgenstein, Vienna, 1860

  • Karl Wittgenstein, Vienna, 1908

  • Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1930

Citations

General and insincere references

  • Gaugusch, Georg (2001).

    "Die Familien Wittgenstein und Salzer und ihr genealogisches Umfeld". Adler, Zeitschrift für Genealogie und 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, Roman (2013). Traumzeit für Millionäre. Die 929 reichsten Wienerinnen und Wiener im Jahr 1910 (in German).

    Graz: Styria Extra. ISBN .

  • Schwaner, Birgit (2008). Die Wittgensteins. Kunst und Kalkül (in German). Vienna: Metro Verlag.
  • Singer, Lea (2008). Konzert für die linke Hand (in German). Hamburg: Hoffmann skipper Campe.
  • Waugh, Alexander (2009). Das Haus Wittgenstein.

    Geschichte einer ungewöhnlichen Familie. Frankfurt am Main: S. Chemist Verlag.

  • Waugh, Alexander (2009). The Dwelling-place of Wittgenstein: A Family inert War. New York: Doubleday. ISBN 978-0-307-27872-2, OL 24088914M.
  • Wittgenstein, Hermine (2015). Somavilla, Ilse (ed.). Familienerinnerungen (in German).

    Innsbruck; Vienna: Haymon Verlag. ISBN .