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unusual facts about House of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg



Alexander, Prince zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn

Alexander Konrad Friedrich Heinrich, Prince zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn, (born 22 November 1943 in Salzburg, Austria), a German businessman, MBA HBS '68, is member of the house of Sayn-Wittgenstein and as 7th Prince (German: Fürst) zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn head of the Princely House Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn.

Avanti Air

Avanti Air (named after the Italian word for ahead) is an airline based in Burbach, Siegen-Wittgenstein, Germany, operating ad hoc charter and aircraft wet-lease services with a maintenance base at Siegerland Airport.

Battle of Bautzen

Finally, generals Wittgenstein and Blücher were ordered to stop at Bautzen by Tsar Alexander I and König Frederick William III.

Botho Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein

Botho Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein (His Serene Highness Prince Botho of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein) (16 February 1927 in Eisenach – 27 January 2008 in Salzburg) was a German politician.

Carina Axelsson

Axelsson is a godmother to the Danish Princess Athena, the daughter of Gustav's maternal cousin, Prince Joachim of Denmark.

Christoph Sauer

The family lived in the village of Schwarzenau, which now belongs to the town of Berleburg though had ties to Laasphe as well.

Clancy Chassay

In his childhood Chassay was briefly a child actor, appearing in two Derek Jarman films, as the young Ludwig Wittgenstein in Jarman's 1993 film Wittgenstein and the young Wilfred Owen, alongside Laurence Olivier, in Jarman's 1988 film War Requiem.

Ernest Casimir, Count of Nassau-Weilburg

Frederick (1640–1675), married Christiane Elisabeth of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Homburg (1646–1678), daughter of Count Ernest of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Homburg (1599–1649)

Felix Salzer

He was born in Vienna to Max Salzer (a doctor) and Helene Wittgenstein (a daughter of Karl Wittgenstein).

Ferdinando Brachetti Peretti

After having lived together for several years, in 2000 he married Her Royal Highness the Princess and Landgravine Mafalda Margherita von Hessen, daughter of Their Royal Highnesses Prince Moritz of Hesse and Princess Tatiana of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg.

Friedrich Waismann

Other members of the Circle (including Schlick, Rudolf Carnap, and Herbert Feigl) also spoke with Wittgenstein, but not to Waismann's extent.

Gustav Albrecht, 5th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg

Gustav Albrecht, 5th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (Gustav Albrecht Alfred Franz Friedrich Otto Emil Ernst, 28 February 1907 – 1944 (declared legally dead 29 November 1969) was Prince and Head of the House of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg.

Robin Alexander Wolfgang Udo Eugen Wilhelm Gottfried of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (b 29 January 1938) married (and divorced in 1979) Birgitta af Klercker (1942–2007) with whom he had issue; married secondly Marie-Christine Heftler-Louiche and had issue

His family did not seek to have him declared dead until 29 November 1969, after the birth of Gustav, Hereditary Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg on 12 January 1969; 29 November 1969 is listed as the official date of death for Gustav Albrecht.

Haidbauer incident

Wittgenstein was summoned to appear before the district court in Gloggnitz on 17 May 1926.

It was reported to the police, and Wittgenstein was summoned to appear in court in Gloggnitz on 17 May 1926, where the judge ordered a psychiatric report.

Haim Gaifman

Gaifman's recent work include logical systems that formalize aspects of natural reasoning (pointer logic for solving the semantic paradoxes, contextual logic for handling vagueness and the Sorites paradox), phenomena of self-reference, metaphysical realism, philosophy of logic, philosophy of mathematics, Frege, Russell, and the early Wittgenstein.

Hanna Fenichel Pitkin

Pitkin's books are The Concept of Representation (1967), Wittgenstein and Justice (1972, 1984, 1992), and Fortune Is a Woman: Gender and Politics in the Thought of Niccolò Machiavelli (1984, 1999), in addition to numerous articles and edited volumes.

Hohenstein

Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein, a county of the Holy Roman Empire (1657–1806), situated between Hesse-Darmstadt and Westphalia

Homburg Castle

Gottfried I of Sayn from the House of Sponheim (1247-1283/84) transferred his castrum Homburg to the German King Rudolf of Habsburg, in order to place it under his protection.

Karl Wittgenstein

The grandfather of Karl Wittgenstein was an estate manager named Moses Meyer, who came from Laasphe in the former Wittgenstein kreis (county).

At first, Wittgenstein's business became the biggest and most successful enterprise in the city of Korbach, but also shortly thereafter began to decline.

Klaus Mollenhauer

These range from medieval woodcuts through philosophical texts to contemporary works of fiction, including Augustine's Confessions, Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations, and Thomas Bernhard's novels and stories.

Krombach

Kreuztal-Krombach, a locality in Kreuztal, in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district, North Rhine-Westphalia

Louis I, Count of Sayn-Wittgenstein

From 1545, Louis and two of his brothers studied at the Universities of Leuven, Paris and Orléans.

Louise Juliane of Erbach

In 1652, she handed over the County of Sayn to her daughters, who divided it into Sayn-Altenkirchen and Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hachenburg.

Countess Louise Juliane of Erbach (1603 at Fürstenau Castle near Michelstadt – 28 September 1670 in Friedewald) was a Countess of Erbach by birth, and by marriage Countess of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn.

Margareta Fouché

Margareta Fouché d'Otrante, Princess of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (28 March 1909 – 25 August 2005) was the wife of Gustav Albrecht, 5th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, and mother of Richard, 6th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, who married Princess Benedikte of Denmark.

Mir Castle Complex

In 1813, after the death of Dominik Hieronim Radziwiłł, the castle passed into the hands of his daughter Stefania, who married Ludwig zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg.

Peter Wittgenstein

He died on 11 June 1843 in Lemberg (Lviv), where he looked after estates of his son Lev Petrovich.

Philosophische

Philosophical Investigations (Philosophische Untersuchungen), 1953 work by Ludwig Wittgenstein

Prince Robin of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg

Robin is a younger brother of Richard, 6th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, husband of Princess Benedikte of Denmark.

Prince Robin Alexander Wolfgang Udo Eugen Wilhelm Gottfried of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (born 29 January 1938 in Gießen, Germany) is the son of Gustav Albrecht, 5th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg and his wife, Franco-Swedish noblewoman Margareta Fouché d'Otrante.

Prince Vincent of Denmark

His godparents are his maternal uncle, John Stuart Donaldson, the Prince of Asturias, the Hereditary Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, Count Michael Ahlefeldt-Laurvig-Bille, Baroness Helle Reedtz-Thott and Caroline Heering.

Princess Tatiana of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg

Princess Tatiana Louise Ursula Therese Elsa of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (born 31 July 1940) is the fourth child and second daughter of Gustav Albrecht, 5th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, and his wife, Margareta Fouché d'Otrante, and younger sister of Prince Richard of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, the husband of Princess Benedikte of Denmark.

Riedesel

No member of the Wittgenstein Riedesels is better known than the master builder Mannus Riedesel (1662–1726).

Ruth Wodak

Besides various other prizes, she was awarded the Wittgenstein-Preis in 1996.

Sayn-Altenkirchen

When Count William III of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn died in 1623 without clear heirs, the Archbishop of Cologne occupied the vacant County until the succession was settled.

Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hachenburg

It passed to the Burgraves of Kirchberg in 1715, to the Counts of Nassau-Weilburg in 1799, and to the Counts of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg in 1803.

Sayn-Wittgenstein-Karlsburg

Sayn-Wittgenstein-Karlsburg was a sideline of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, created by Graf Casimir (ruled 1694–1741) for his brother Karl Wilhelm.

Sayn-Wittgenstein-Vallendar

Sayn-Wittgenstein-Vallendar was a County of the Holy Roman Empire in Germany.

Sønderborg Castle

The room is still used for special events, such as in connection with the marriage of Queen Margrethe II's niece, Princess Alexandra of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg to Count Jefferson-Friedrich von Pfeil und Klein-Ellguth in 1998.

Stephan, Hereditary Prince of Lippe

He married Countess Maria of Solms-Laubach, daughter of Count Otto of Solms-Laubach and Princess Madeleine of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, on 15 October 1994 in Detmold.

The Jew of Linz

#Both Hitler's oratory and Wittgenstein's philosophy of language derive from the hermetic tradition, the key to which is Wittgenstein's "no-ownership" theory of mind, described by P. F. Strawson in his book Individuals (1958).

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

The 32-minute production, named Wittgenstein Tractatus, features citations from the Tractatus and other works by Wittgenstein.

Wittgenstein's Nephew

The author narrates moments of his friendship with Paul Wittgenstein, "nephew" (actually son of a first cousin) of the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (not to be confused with the latter's brother, the pianist Paul Wittgenstein).


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