Ludwig Wittgenstein From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search "Wittgenstein" redirects here. For other uses, see Wittgenstein (disambiguation) . Ludwig Wittgenstein Portrait of Wittgenstein on being awarded a scholarship from Trinity College, Cambridge , 1929 Born Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein 26 April 1889 Neuwaldegg [ de ] , Vienna , Austria-Hungary Died 29 April 1951 (aged 62) Cambridge , Cambridgeshire , England Nationality Austrian (until 1939) [1] British (from 1939) Education Technische Hochschule Berlin ( Diplom , 1908) Victoria University of Manchester (PhD, not completed) Trinity College, Cambridge (PhD, 1929) Notable work Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus Philosophical Investigations Era 20th-century philosophy Region Western philosophy School Analytic philosophy [2] Anti-foundationalism [3] Anti-essentialism Therapeutic approach Linguistic turn Logical atomism ...