Otto Neurath (December 10, 1882 – December 22, 1945) was an Austrianphilosopher and member of the Vienna Circle. He wrote books in Basic English. In 1936 Charles Kay Ogden commissioned Otto and his wife Marie Neurath to produce International Picture Language as part of a series of eight books in Basic English.
Life
Neurath was born in Vienna, the son of Wilhelm Neurath (1840–1901), a well-known Jewish political economist at the time.[1] Otto's mother was a Protestant, and he would also become one.[2] He studied mathematics and physics at the University of Vienna. In 1906, he gained his PhD in the department of Political Science and Statistics at the University of Berlin.
He married Anna Schapire in 1907, who died in 1911. Then, he married a close friend, the mathematician and philosopher Olga Hahn.
Neurath taught political economy at the New Vienna Commercial Academy in Vienna until war broke out. After that, he directed the Department of War Economy in the War Ministry. In 1917, he completed his habilitation thesis Die Kriegswirtschaftslehre und ihre Bedeutung für die Zukunft (War Economics and Their Importance for the Future) at Heidelberg University. In 1918, he became director of the Deutsches Kriegswirtschaftsmuseum (German Museum of War Economy, later the Deutsches Wirtschaftsmuseum) at Leipzig.
Reerences
↑Cat, Jordi (2024), "Otto Neurath", in Zalta, Edward N.; Nodelman, Uri (eds.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2024 ed.), Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University, retrieved 2024-09-05
