Fritz Mauthner

Fritz Mauthner
Born (1849-11-22)22 November 1849
Horschitz, Bohemia
Died 29 June 1923(1923-06-29) (aged 73)
Meersburg, Germany
Alma mater Charles University in Prague

Fritz Mauthner (22 November 1849 29 June 1923) was an Austro-Hungarian novelist, theatre critic, satirist, and exponent of philosophical skepticism derived from a critique of human knowledge.

Mauthner was born on 22 November 1849 into an assimilated, well-to-do Jewish family from Horschitz (Hořice; also Horschitz) in Bohemia.[1]

He became editor of the Berliner Tageblatt in 1895, but is best known for his Beiträge zu einer Kritik der Sprache (Contributions to a Critique of Language),[2] published in three parts in 1901 and 1902. Ludwig Wittgenstein took several of his ideas from Mauthner,[3] and acknowledges him in his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922).[4]

Mauthner died in Meersburg.

Works

Philosophy
  • Beiträge zu einer Kritik der Sprache, three volumes, Stuttgart: J.G. Cotta, 19011903.
  • Aristoteles, 1904
  • Spinoza, 1906
  • Die Sprache, 1907
  • Wörterbuch der Philosophie, 1910–11, 1923–24
  • Schopenhauer, 1911
  • Der letzte Tod des Gautama Buddha, 1913
  • Der Atheismus und seine Geschichte im Abendlande (4 books), 1920–23
  • Muttersprache und Vaterland, 1920
Fiction
  • Anna, 1874
  • Lyrik
  • Die große Revolution, 1872
  • Nach berühmten Mustern, satirical, 1878, 1889
  • Einsame Fahrten, 1879
  • Vom armen Franischko, story, 1879
  • Die Sonntage der Baronin, 1881
  • Der neue Ahasver, 1882
  • Dilettantenspiegel, satirical, 1883
  • Gräfin Salamanca, 1884
  • Xanthippe, 1884
  • Berlin W. (trilogy of novels): Quartett, 1886; Die Fanfare, 1888; Der Villenhof, 1890
  • Der letzte Deutsche von Blatna, novel, 1887
  • Der Pegasus, 1889
  • Zehn Geschichten, 1891
  • Glück im Spiel, 1891
  • Hypatia, 1892
  • Lügenohr, 1892 (under the title: Aus dem Märchenbuch der Wahrheit, 1899)
  • Kraft, novel 1894
  • Die Geisterseher, novel 1894
  • Die bunte Reihe, 1896
  • Der steinerne Riese, novella, 1896
  • Die böhmische Handschrift, novella 1897
  • Der wilde Jockey, 1897
  • Der letzte Tod des Gautamo Buddha, novel 1913
  • Der goldene Fiedelbogen, 1917
Essays and theoretical works
  • Kleiner Krieg, 1879
  • Credo, 1886
  • Tote Symbole, 1892
  • Zum Streit um die Bühne, 1893
  • Totengespräche, 1906
  • Gespräche im Himmel und andere Ketzereien, 1914
Translations
Editorial
  • Wochenschrift für Kunst und Literatur, 1889-1890
  • Magazin für die Literatur des In- und Auslandes, 1991
  • Bibliothek der Philosophen, from 1911
Collected works
  • Ausgewählte Schriften, 6 books, 1919
Miscellaneous
  • Erinnerungen, autobiography 1918
  • Selbstbiographie 1922, in: Philosophie der Gegenwart in Selbstdarstellungen, Bd. 3.

References

  1. Iggers, Wilma. "Mauthner, Fritz". The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. Retrieved 2013-10-05.
  2. Nájera, Elena. "Wittgenstein versus Mauthner: Two critiques of language, two mysticisms". From the ALWS archives: A selection of papers from the International Wittgenstein Symposia in Kirchberg am Wechsel. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
  3. Janik, Allan and Toulmin, Stephen Toulmin. Wittgenstein's Vienna. I.R. Dee, 1996 (first published 1973), pp. 119, 121133.
  4. Wittgenstein L., Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, "4.0031 All philosophy is a 'critique of language' (though not in Mauthner's sense)."

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