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| Relationship | Name | Date - Period |
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| Tutor | G E Moore | 1873-1958 |
| Tutor/Friend | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970 |
| Where | Why | When |
|---|---|---|
Vienna, Austria | Family Home, birth place | 1889 |
Berlin | Student of Mechanical Engineering | 1906-1908 |
Manchester, England | Student of Mechanical Engineering | 1908-1911 |
| Cambridge University, England | Student of Bertrand Russell studying mathematical logic | 1912-1913 |
| Austria | Teacher | 1920-1926 |
| Trinity College, Cambridge | Fellow | 1929 |
| Trinity College, Cambridge | Professor of Philosophy | 1939-1947 |
| Title | Genre | Date - Edition |
|---|---|---|
| Logisch-philosophische Abhandlung | 1921 | |
| Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus | 1922 | |
| Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics | 1956 | |
| The Blue and Brown Books | 1958 | |
| Philosophische Bemerkungen | 1964 | |
| On Certainty | 1969 |
Biographical Details and Notes
He was the son of a wealthy industrialist educated at home until he was 14 then he attended an Austrian School.
Served in the Austrian Army as an Artillery officer during WWI, taken prisoner on the Italian front in 1918, rest of the war as a POW close to Monte Cassino.
During the war he carried his notebooks with him sending the completed work to Bertrand Russell in England to be published.
He gave away his inheritance, worked as a teacher in Austrian Elementary Schools 1920 - 1926.
He returned to Cambridge in 1929, Fellow of Trinity, then professor of Philosophy 1939 - 1947 (did war service as a hospital porter, Guy's Hospital London during WWII).
He took British Citizenship in 1938
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