Karl Wittgenstein
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Karl Otto Clemens Wittgenstein (1847 - 1913)

Karl Otto Clemens (Karl) Wittgenstein
Born in Gohlis, Meißen, Saxony, Germanymap
Ancestors ancestors
Husband of — married 14 Feb 1874 [location unknown]
Died at age 65 in Vienna, Austriamap
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Biography

Karl Wittgenstein (April 8, 1847, Gohlis, Saxony – January 20, 1913, Vienna) was a German-born Austrian steel tycoon of Jewish origin. A friend of Andrew Carnegie, with whom he was often compared, at the end of the 19th century he controlled an effective monopoly on steel and iron resources within the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and had by the 1890s acquired one of the largest fortunes in the world.[1] He was also the father of Ludwig Wittgenstein, one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th century.[1]

Family

Karl married Leopoldine "Poldi" Kalmus February 14th in 1874. Leopoldine´s father was a Bohemian Jew and her mother was Austrian-Slovene Catholic.

They had nine children :

  • Hermine "Mining" (b. 1 December 1874 in Teplitz; d. 11 February 1950 in Vienna), unmarried.
  • Dora (b. 1876 in Vienna; died at birth)
  • Johannes "Hans" (b. 1877 in Vienna; d. 1902 in Chesapeake Bay, probable suicide), a musical prodigy
  • Konrad "Kurt" (b. 1 May 1878 in Vienna; d. 1918, shot himself on the Italian front)
  • Helene "Lenka" (b. 23 August 1879 in Vienna; d. April 1956 in Vienna) married to Dr. Max Salzer
  • Rudolf "Rudi" (b. 27 June 1881 in Vienna; d. 2 May 1904 in Berlin, suicide), chemistry student.
  • Margaret "Gretl" (b. 19 September 1882 in Vienna; d. 27 September 1958 in Vienna) married to Jerome Stonborough in 1904, divorced in 1923.
  • Paul (b. 11 May 1887 in Vienna; d. 3 March 1961 in New York), concert pianist, married at least 3 children.
  • Ludwig "Lucki", (b. 26 April 1889 in Vienna; d. 29 April 1951 in Cambridge), philosopher

Source to family and children: [2].

Sources

  1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Wittgenstein, accessed 2017-02-19, gives parents as Hermann Christian Wittgenstein & Fanny Figdor
  2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wittgenstein_family, accessed 2024-02-02
  • Global, Find A Grave Index for Burials at Sea and other Select Burial Locations, 1300s-Current, ancestry.com: "Name: Karl Otto Clemens Wittgenstein. Birth Date: 8 Apr 1847. Birth Place: Leipzig, Leipziger Stadtkreis, Saxony (Sachsen), Germany. Death Date: 20 Jan 1913. Death Place: Vienna, Wien Stadt, Vienna (Wien), Austria. Cemetery: Zentralfriedhof.




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