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Wittgenstein's Lost Schoolteacher Years (1918-1926)

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Wittgenstein's "lost years" (1918-1926) when he worked as an elementary school teacher. I look at the good, the bad, and the ugly.

For Ludwig Wittgenstein, the war ended in November 1918 when the decrepit Austro-Hungarian empire disintegrated. After serving with courage and distinction for over four years, he was taken prisoner and spent the next nine months in relatively mild Italian captivity. The war had been brutal for the Wittgenstein family. His brother Paul lost an arm and suffered through the misery of internment at a Russian POW camp in Siberia. Another brother, Kurt, was even less fortunate. He killed himself at the war’s end when his men refused to obey his orders. Kurt was the third of Wittgenstein’s ill-fated

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