Ludwig Wittgenstein

Early life

 * Family very wealthy -- dad (Karl) was a steel industrialist
 * Family very musical -- friends of the Schumanns, Brahms, Mahler
 * Hayek was a cousin (on his mother's side), and the first to collect biographical material on him
 * 3 eldest brothers committed suicide
 * Was in the same school (and year group) as Hitler, but they didn't cross-over