Editing Paul Wittgenstein (section)

==Early life==
[[File:Helene, Ludwig, Hermine, Paul und Margarethe Wittgenstein OeNB 5086848 (A).jpg|thumb|Paul Wittgenstein (front left) with his siblings.|left]]
[[File:Wittgenstein family Vienna 1917.jpg|thumb|The Wittgenstein family, Vienna in mid 1917. From left, sibs Kurt, Paul, and Hermine Wittgenstein; brother-in-law, Max Salzer; mother, Leopoldine Wittgenstein; Helene Wittgenstein Salzer; and Ludwig Wittgenstein]]
Wittgenstein was born in Vienna, the fourth son and seventh of the [[Wittgenstein family|eight children]] (excluding a daughter who died at birth) of industrialist [[Karl Wittgenstein]] and Leopoldine Maria Josefa Kalmus. He was raised as a Catholic; three of his grandparents had converted from Judaism as adults. Only his paternal grandmother had no Jewish lineage.<ref name=":1">{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/04/06/a-nervous-splendor|title=A Nervous Splendor|magazine=The New Yorker|access-date=2018-07-06|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>Monk Ray, ''Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius'', New York: The Free Press, 1990, p. 8.</ref> His brother [[Ludwig Wittgenstein|Ludwig]] was born two years later. The household was frequently visited by prominent cultural figures, among them the composers [[Johannes Brahms]], [[Gustav Mahler]], [[Josef Labor]], and [[Richard Strauss]], with whom the young Paul played duets. His grandmother, Fanny Wittgenstein, was a first cousin of the violinist [[Joseph Joachim]], whom she adopted{{Sfn|Covell|2004|p=}} and took to Leipzig to study with [[Felix Mendelssohn]].

Wittgenstein studied with Malvine Brée and later with the Polish virtuoso [[Theodor Leschetizky]]. He made his public début in 1913, attracting favorable reviews. The next year, World War I broke out, and he was called up for military service. He was shot in the elbow and captured by the Russians during the [[Battle of Galicia]], and his right arm had to be amputated.{{Sfn|Reich|2002|p=}}