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In November 1925 Stonborough-Wittgenstein commissioned Engelmann to design a large townhouse. She later invited her brother, Ludwig Wittgenstein, to help with the design, in part to distract him [citation needed] from the scandal surrounding the Haidbauer incident in April 1926: Wittgenstein, while working as a primary-school teacher, had hit a boy who had subsequently collapsed.
The Wittgenstein family is a German-Austrian family that rose to prominence in 19th- and 20th-century Vienna, Austria. The family was originally Jewish and originated from the Wittgensteiner Land [ de ] in Siegen-Wittgenstein , Germany.
Paul Engelmann (14 June 1891 – 5 February 1965) was an architect who worked in Olmütz (Olomouc) and in Vienna and is now best known for his friendship with the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein between 1916 and 1928, and for being Wittgenstein's partner in the design and building of the Stonborough House, in Vienna. [1]
Margarethe Stonborough-Wittgenstein painted by Gustav Klimt for her wedding portrait in 1905. On 7 January 1905, she married a wealthy American art collector, Jerome Stonborough (1873 – June 1938), [3] who was of German Jewish ancestry and born Jerome Herman Steinberger; he had had his name changed to Stonborough in 1900.
Wittgenstein may also refer to: Wittgenstein, Derek Jarman's 1993 biopic of Ludwig Wittgenstein; Wittgenstein family relatives of Ludwig Palais Wittgenstein in Vienna, Austria, now demolished residence of the family; Haus Wittgenstein, residence of Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein in Vienna, Austria, partly designed by her brother Ludwig
One boy, the brother of the boy Wittgenstein had wanted to adopt, stuffed a pencil up his nose to make it bleed after Wittgenstein slapped him. The story of how Wittgenstein had given a boy a bloody nose spread, and soon other children were playing similar tricks, which included pretending to faint.
James Bond is a fictional character created by British novelist Ian Fleming in 1953. A British secret agent working for MI6 under the codename 007, Bond has been portrayed on film in twenty-seven productions by actors Sean Connery, David Niven, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan, and Daniel Craig.
The term "Family resemblance" as feature of Wittgenstein's philosophy owes much to its translation in English. Wittgenstein, who wrote mostly in German, used the compound word Familienähnlichkeit, but as he lectured and conversed in English he used 'family likeness' (e.g. The Blue Book, p. 17,33; The Brown Book,§66).