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Fritz Mauthner was a journalist and philosopher from Horschitz

Horice (Jicín District)

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, Bohemia

Kingdom of Bohemia

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He became editor of the Berliner Tageblatts in 1895, but is best known for his Beiträge zu einer Kritik der Sprache (Contributions to a Critique of Language), published in three parts in 1901 and 1902. Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein was an Austrian philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language. He was professor in philosophy at the University of Cambridge from 1939 until 1947...

took several of his ideas from Mauthner, and acknowledges him in his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

The Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is the only book-length philosophical work published by the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein in his lifetime. It was an ambitious project: to identify the relationship between language and reality and to define the limits of science...

(1922).

Mauthner died in Meersburg

Meersburg

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Works

Philosophy

Beiträge zu einer Kritik der Sprache, three volumes, Stuttgart: J.G. Cotta, 1901–1903.
Aristoteles, 1904
Spinoza, 1906
Die Sprache, 1907
Wörterbuch der Philosophie, 1910-11, 1923-24
Schopenhauer, 1911
Der letzte Tod des Gautama Buddha, 1913
Der Atheismus und seine Geschichte im Abendlande (4 books), 1920-23
Muttersprache und Vaterland, 1920

Fiction

Anna, 1874
Lyrik
Die große Revolution, 1872
Nach berühmten Mustern, satirical, 1878, 1889
Einsame Fahrten, 1879
Vom armen Franischko, story, 1879
Die Sonntage der Baronin, 1881
Der neue Ahasver, 1882
Dilettantenspiegel, satirical, 1883
Gräfin Salamanca, 1884
Xanthippe, 1884
Berlin W. (trilogy of novels): Quartett, 1886; Die Fanfare, 1888; Der Villenhof, 1890
Der letzte Deutsche von Blatna, novel, 1887
Der Pegasus, 1889
Zehn Geschichten, 1891
Glück im Spiel, 1891
Hypatia, 1892
Lügenohr, 1892 (under the title: Aus dem Märchenbuch der Wahrheit, 1899)
Kraft, novel 1894
Die Geisterseher, novel 1894
Die bunte Reihe, 1896
Der steinerne Riese, novella, 1896
Die böhmische Handschrift, novella 1897
Der wilde Jockey, 1897
Der letzte Tod des Gautamo Buddha, novel 1913
Der goldene Fiedelbogen, 1917

Essays and theoretical works

Kleiner Krieg, 1879
Credo, 1886
Tote Symbole, 1892
Zum Streit um die Bühne, 1893
Totengespräche, 1906
Gespräche im Himmel und andere Ketzereien, 1914

Translations

Henriette Marechal, by Edmond de Goncourt
Edmond de Goncourt
Edmond de Goncourt , born Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de Goncourt, was a French writer, literary critic, art critic, book publisher and the founder of the Académie Goncourt.-Biography:...

, 1895

Editorial

Wochenschrift für Kunst und Literatur, 1889-1890
Magazin für die Literatur des In- und Auslandes, 1991
Bibliothek der Philosophen, from 1911

Collected works

Ausgewählte Schriften, 6 books, 1919

Miscellaneous

Erinnerungen, autobiography 1918
Selbstbiographie 1922, in: Philosophie der Gegenwart in Selbstdarstellungen, Bd. 3.

Works

Further reading