It is a flat stone bearing the words Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951 in a sans serif modern font. Wittgenstein’s grave is not easy to find. Smith on Wittgenstein on Philosophy Bites. But by far the most famous of this graveyard’s inhabitants is the Austrian philosopher, Ludwig Wittgenstein, one of the most important philosophers of the 20 th Century. Moore, the brilliant mathematician and philosopher Frank Ramsey who died aged only 26, and the eccentric philosophical couple Elisabeth Anscombe and Peter Geach.
Among them are quite a few philosophers, including the author of Principia Ethica G.E.
83 of the people buried there are mentioned in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Tucked behind the Huntingdon Road on the way out of Cambridge, near Storey’s Way, lies a small cemetery: Ascension Parish Graveyard.
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