He was professor of economics at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences[1] in Vienna.
Neurath was born in Svätý Jur into a poor but pious Jewish family.
[2] At the age of seven, he recalled, he was "deeply stirred" by his father's fanatical religious condemnations and sought solace in his own company wandering in the forests.
Strengthened from his dreams about "God's ways", he turned to science, particularly physics and astronomy, his favourite book being Lagrange's Mécanique analytique (1788).
However, after providing mathematical training to a philosophical writer, he read Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and consequently embraced materialism and atheism.