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100th birthday - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 1989 - 5 Shilling

Designer: Zeiller, Otto

100th birthday - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 1989 - 5 Shilling


Theme: Well-known people
CountryAustria / II. Republic of Austria
Issue Date1989
Face Value5.00 
Colorblack brown
Printing Typecombination printing
Stamp TypeCommemorative
Item TypeStamp
Chronological Issue Number1295
Chronological ChapterOOS-OE2
SID548267
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The philosopher Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein was born on 26 April 1889 as the last of eight children of a steel industrialist. Strongly impressed by the experiences he had during the First World War, in which he volunteered for military service, he turned away from the world of big capitalism, which until then had always been present in the form of his father, and from then on lived as an ascetic the contemplation of the eternal and unchangeable structures of the world. He is considered the main founder of what is today called in the broadest sense as a language philosophy. Already during the First World War he wrote his famous "Logisch-Philosophische Abhandlung", the "tractate". The depth and permeability have been instrumental in rediscovering philosophy as an "adventure of the mind". On April 29, 1951, the philosopher dies of prostate cancer in Cambridge.

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The philosopher Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein was born on 26 April 1889 as the last of eight children of a steel industrialist. Strongly impressed by the experiences he had during the First World War, in which he volunteered for military service, he turned away from the world of big capitalism, which until then had always been present in the form of his father, and from then on lived as an ascetic the contemplation of the eternal and unchangeable structures of the world. He is considered the main founder of what is today called in the broadest sense as a language philosophy. Already during the First World War he wrote his famous "Logisch-Philosophische Abhandlung", the "tractate". The depth and permeability have been instrumental in rediscovering philosophy as an "adventure of the mind". On April 29, 1951, the philosopher dies of prostate cancer in Cambridge..