What is Otto Neurath?
{{unsourced|date=July 2015}} {{Infobox person | name = Otto Neurath | image = Otto Neurath.jpg | alt = | caption = Otto Neurath in 1919 | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1882|12|10|df=yes}} | birth_place = [[Vienna]], [[Austro-Hungarian Empire]]&nbsp;<small>(now in [[Austria]])</small> | death_date = {{death date and age|1945|12|22|1889|6|1|df=yes}} | death_place = [[Oxford]], [[England]], [[United Kingdom]] | nationality = | other_names = | known_for = Founder of [[Vienna Circle]] | occupation = Philosopher, sociologist, economist }} '''Otto Neurath''' (December 10, 1882 – December 22, 1945) was an [[Austrian]] [[philosopher]] 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.<ref>{{Citation |last=Cat |first=Jordi |title=Otto Neurath |date=2024 |encyclopedia=The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy |editor-last=Zalta |editor-first=Edward N. |url=https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/neurath/#:~:text=Otto%20Neurath%20was%20born%20on,political%20economist%20and%20social%20reformer. |access-date=2024-09-05 |edition=Spring 2024 |publisher=Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University |editor2-last=Nodelman |editor2-first=Uri}}</ref> Otto's mother was a [[Protestantism|Protestant]], and he would also become one.<ref>{{Cite journal | url=https://www.academia.edu/69443414 | title=The Political Ideas of Otto Neurath: Science, Judaism, and the Rise of Expertocracy | journal=Azimuth Ix (2021) 18: Mother-Tongue and Father-Land: Jewish Perspectives on Language and Identity | date=January 2021 | last1=Wussow | first1=Philipp von }}</ref> He studied mathematics and physics at the University of Vienna. In 1906, he gained his PhD in the department of Polit