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With an IQ believed to be in the range of 190, Ludwig Wittgenstein is considered to be one of the greatest thinkers of our time. Born into a privileged family in Vienna, Austria on April 26, 1889, Wittgenstein later gave up his inheritance to his siblings in an attempt to simplify his own life.

Wittgenstein was educated in childhood at home before attending the Realschule in Linz (1903-1906), where he was a schoolmate of Adolf Hitler. He later studied mechanical engineering in Berlin and aeronautics at Manchester, England before becoming involved with mathematical logic at Cambridge. From there, Wittgenstein went on to Skjolden in Norway where he lived and worked in isolation and developed his ideas for logic and language, leading to his greatest work, the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, which he later submitted as his doctoral thesis.

Wittgenstein performed service in World War I, then went on to become an elementary school teacher for five years. His ...

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