Fritz Mauthner (22 November 1849 – 29 June 1923) was an Austrian novelist, theatre critic and satirist. He was an exponent of philosophical scepticism derived from a critique of human knowledge and of philosophy of language.

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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
Relatives	Auguste Hauschner (cousin)

Mauthner was born on 22 November 1849 into an assimilated, well-to-do Jewish family from Horzitz in Bohemia (now Hořice in the Czech Republic).[1] He was the fourth of the six children of Emmanuel and Amalie Mauthner.[2]^: viii

He became editor of the Berliner Tageblatt in 1895, but is remembered mainly for his Beiträge zu einer Kritik der Sprache (Contributions to a Critique of Language),[3] published in three parts in 1901 and 1902. Ludwig Wittgenstein took several of his ideas from Mauthner,[4] and acknowledges him in his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922).[5]

Mauthner died in Meersburg am Bodensee on 29 June 1923.[2]^: viii

Works

References

Further reading

• Arens, Katherine. Empire in decline: Fritz Mauthner's critique of Wilhelminian Germany. New York: P. Lang, 2001.
• Ben-Zvi, Linda. Samuel Beckett, Fritz Mauthner and the Limits of Language. PMLA. Vol. 95(2): 183-200. 1980.
• Bredeck, Elizabeth. Metaphors of Knowledge: Language and Thought in Mauthner's Critique. Wayne State University Press, 1992.
• Dapía, Silvia. Die Rezeption der Sprachkritik Fritz Mauthners im Werk von Jorge Luis Borges. Cologne, Weimar, Vienna: Böhlau, 1993
• Knowlson, James & Pilling, John. Frescoes of the skull. London: John Calder, 1979.
• Kühn, Joachim. Gescheiterte Sprachkritik: Fritz Mauthners Leben und Werk. Walter de Gruyter, 1979.
• Ludwig, Otto & Heydrich, Moritz. Shakespeare-Studien. Halle: H. Gesenius, 1901.
• Skerl, Jennie. Fritz Mauthner's "Critique of Language" in Samuel Beckett's "Watt". Contemporary Literature. Vol. 15(4): 474-487. University of Wisconsin Press, 1974.
• Sluga, Hans. Wittgenstein and Pyrrhonism. In Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Ed.) Pyrrhonian Skepticism. Oxford University Press, 2006
• Vierhufe, Almut. Parody and Language Critique. Studies on Fritz Mauthner's Nach berühmten Mustern. Niemeyer, 1999.
• Weiler, Gershon. Mauthner's Critique of Language. Cambridge University Press, 1970.

External links

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• Fritz Mauthner Collection at the Leo Baeck Institute
• Guide to the Fritz Mauthner Correspondence Collection 1765-1868
• Book review of Fritz Mauthner's Die Sprache
• Works by or about Fritz Mauthner at Internet Archive
• Works by Fritz Mauthner at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)

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