Fritz Mauthner, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Fritz Mauthner

Austrian philosopher, writer and opinion journalist

Date of Birth: 22-Nov-1849

Place of Birth: Hořice, Hradec Králové Region, Czech Republic

Date of Death: 29-Jun-1923

Profession: writer, journalist, literary critic, philosopher

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Fritz Mauthner (22 November 1849 – 29 June 1923) was an Austro-Hungarian 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.:viiiHe 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.:viii