Fritz Mauthner
Austrian writer
Died when: 73 years 219 days (883 months)Star Sign: Sagittarius
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Fritz Mauthner (22 November 1849 – 29 June 1923) was an Austrian novelist, theatre critic and satirist.He was an exponent of philosophical scepticism derived from a critique of human knowledge and of philosophy of language.
Mauthner was born on 22 November 1849 into an assimilated, well-to-do Jewish family from Horzitz in Bohemia (now Horice in the Czech Republic).
He was the fourth of the six children of Emmanuel and Amalie Mauthner.He became editor of the Berliner Tageblatt in 1895, but is remembered mainly for his Beiträge zu einer Kritik der Sprache (Contributions to a Critique of Language), published in three parts in 1901 and 1902.
Ludwig Wittgenstein took several of his ideas from Mauthner, and acknowledges him in his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922).Mauthner died in Meersburg am Bodensee on 29 June 1923.
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