!!!Mauthner, Fritz

b. Horicče, Czech Republic (then Horitz), Nov. 22, 1849, 
d. Meersburg at Lake Constance (Germany), June 29, 1923, writer and 
philosopher. Came from a Jewish family in Bohemia; from 1873 studied 
law in Vienna, attended lectures of famous teachers like F. A. O.  
Benndorf and A. W.  Ambros. During his successful career as a 
journalist also wrote outstanding literary works and studied 
philosophical problems of language, on which he finally concentrated 
exclusively from the turn of the century onwards. His sceptical views 
of language make him a predecessor of L.  Wittgenstein.

!Works
Die grosse Revolution, 1872 (poems); Anna, 1874 (drama); Nach 
beruehmten Mustern, 1878 (parodies); Dilettantenspiegel, 1884 
(satire); Xantippe, 1884 (novel); Credo, 1892 (essays); Luegenohr, 
Fabeln und Gedichte in Prosa, 1892 (essays); Der letzte Tod des 
Gautama Buddha, 1913 (novel). Philosophical __publications:__ Beitraege zu 
einer Kritik der Sprache, 3 vols., 1901-1902; Woerterbuch der 
Philosophie, 2 vols., 1910/1911; Der Atheismus und seine 
Geschichte im Abendlande, 4 vols., 1920-1923. - Edition: Das 
philosophische Werk, 1997ff.

!Literature
J. Kuehn, Gescheiterte Sprachkritik, 1975; 
W. Eschenbacher, F. M. und die deutsche Literatur um 1900, 
1977; E. Leinfellner (ed.), F. M., 1995; H. Henne and C. 
Kaiser (ed.), F. M. Sprache, Literatur, Kritik, 2000; OeBL.



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