20th Century · Philosophy, Wittgenstein Scholarship
Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe (1919-2001) was a British analytic philosopher and student of Ludwig Wittgenstein. She became one of the 20th century's most significant moral philosophers and a leading Wittgenstein scholar, responsible for translating and interpreting his later work. A devout Roman Catholic, she integrated rigorous analytic philosophy with Aristotelian-Thomist thought.