Alfred Schmidt

Dr. phil. Alfred Schmidt (b.1959, Linz, Austria) studied philosophy, psychology, and art history in Vienna, receiving his doctorate with a thesis on Edmund Husserl. He is a research assistant to the Director General at the Austrian National Library and has been working on Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophy for many years, in particular on the part of his Nachlass held at the Austrian National Library. He is a regular guest and lecturer at the Wittgenstein Symposium in Kirchberg am Wechsel,...See more

Dr. phil. Alfred Schmidt (b.1959, Linz, Austria) studied philosophy, psychology, and art history in Vienna, receiving his doctorate with a thesis on Edmund Husserl. He is a research assistant to the Director General at the Austrian National Library and has been working on Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophy for many years, in particular on the part of his Nachlass held at the Austrian National Library. He is a regular guest and lecturer at the Wittgenstein Symposium in Kirchberg am Wechsel, helping to create the 2016 Edition of the Tractatus Publication Materials on the online portal Wittgenstein Source (http: //wittgensteinsource.org ), supervised by Alois Pichler. In 2018, he designed the Wittgenstein part of the exhibition Berg, Wittgenstein Zuckerkandl. Central Figures of Viennese Modernism at the Literature Museum of the Austrian National Library. See less