Karl Wittgenstein

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Karl Wittgenstein
tycoon
Spouse
Leopoldine Maria Josefa Kalmus
​
​
(m. 1873)​
Children9, including
Margaret, Paul, and Ludwig

Karl Otto Clemens Wittgenstein (8 April 1847 – 20 January 1913) was a German-born Austrian steel

Austro-Hungarian Empire, and had by the 1890s acquired one of the largest fortunes in the world.[1] He was also the father of concert pianist Paul Wittgenstein, philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein and of philanthropist Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein
.

Family background and origins

The eleven sons and daughters of Hermann and Fanny Wittgenstein, Karl second from left
Karl's father, Hermann Wittgenstein 1802–1878

The grandfather of Karl Wittgenstein was an estate manager named Moses Meyer, who came from Laasphe in the former Wittgenstein kreis (county).[2] He moved to Korbach before 1802, where he was a merchant.

Around 1808, Moses Meyer named himself Wittgenstein, after his birthplace Siegen-Wittgenstein and thereafter was known as Moses Meyer Wittgenstein.[3]

At first, Wittgenstein's business became the biggest and most successful enterprise in the city of

House of Waldeck
.

After Hermann Christian converted to Protestantism, he married Fanny Figdor in 1839. She came from one of the most important business families in Vienna, and like Hermann was Jewish by birth.[4][5]

Karl, born in 1847, was the sixth of eleven children of Hermann and Fanny. Three years later the family moved to Vösendorf (Mödling district) in Austria, where his four younger siblings were born. One of his brothers, Paul Wittgenstein (1842–1928), was the father of Dr Karl Paul Wittgenstein who married Hilde Köchert, daughter of renowned Viennese jeweller Heinrich Köchert: their son Paul Wittgenstein (1907–1979) was "Wittgenstein's Nephew", the central character of a book by his friend Thomas Bernhard.[6]

Biography

Early life and career

First World War.[8]

Children

Karl married Leopoldine Maria Josefa Kalmus, known among friends as Poldi, in 1873. She was the only spouse of any of Hermann Christian's children who had a Jewish background;

Catholic.[9][10][11][12]
They had the following children:

References

  1. ^ "Karl Wittgenstein, Business Tycoon and Art Patron". Retrieved 2008-12-12.
  2. ^ See Schloss Wittgenstein. Various sources spell Meier's name Maier and Meyer.
  3. ^ Bartley, pp. 199–200.
  4. ^ Monk, pp. 4–5.
  5. ^ "Wittgenstein Family History". www.wittgensteinchronology.com. Archived from the original on 2020-10-25.
  6. ^ Cousineau, Thomas. "Thomas Bernhard an introductory essay by Thomas Cousineau". Retrieved 11 November 2017.
  7. ISBN 0140159959
    .
  8. ^
    ISBN 0140159959
    .
  9. ^ Ranjit Chatterjee, Wittgenstein and Judaism: A Triumph of Concealment, 2005, p. 178.
  10. ^ A Nervous Splendor : The New Yorker
  11. ^ B. McGuinness, Wittgenstein: a life : young Ludwig 1889–1921.
  12. ^ Wittgenstein, Leopoldine (Schenker Documents Online)

External links

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