Editing Otto Neurath (section)

==Early 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 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> [[Helene Migerka]] was his cousin.<ref name=Memories>{{cite book|last1=Neurath|first1=Otto|title=Empiricism and sociology: the life and work of Otto Neurath|url=https://archive.org/details/empiricismsociol0000neur|url-access=registration|date=1973|publisher=Reidel|location=[S.l.]|isbn=978-9027702593|pages=[https://archive.org/details/empiricismsociol0000neur/page/2 2]}}</ref> He studied mathematics and physics at the [[University of Vienna]] (he formally enrolled for classes only for two semesters in 1902–3). In 1906, he gained his [[Ph.D.]] in the department of [[Political Science]] and [[Statistics]] at the [[University of Berlin]] with a thesis entitled ''Zur Anschauung der Antike über Handel, Gewerbe und Landwirtschaft'' (''On the Conceptions in Antiquity of Trade, Commerce and Agriculture'').

He married Anna Schapire in 1907, who died in 1911 while bearing their son, Paul, and then married a close friend, the mathematician and philosopher [[Olga Hahn-Neurath|Olga Hahn]]. Perhaps because of his second wife's blindness and then because of the outbreak of war, Paul was sent to a children's home outside Vienna, where Neurath's mother lived, and returned to live with both of his parents when he was nine years old.