Ludwig Wittgenstein blue plaque

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# Counting House Lodge, Guy's Hospital Standing before Counting House Lodge on Collingwood Street in Southwark, you're looking at the unlikely sanctuary where one of the twentieth century's greatest philosophers deliberately erased himself from view. From 1941 to 1942, Ludwig Wittgenstein—the Vienn...
Location
Counting House Lodge, Guy's Hospital, Collingwood Street, Southwark
Inscription
Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1889 - 1951, pre-eminent Viennese philosopher & mathematician, worked incognito at Guy's Hospital pharmacy as drugs porter and ointment maker, 1941 - 1942. Memorial donated by Guy's John Fry Group 2013.