Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrodinger was born on 12 August 1887 in Vienna, Austria (Austria-Hungary at that time). His father was an Austrian Catholic and his mother was an Austrian-English Lutheran, and Schrodinger grew up speaking German and English. He attended the Akademisches Gymnasium high school in Vienna from 1898 to 1905, and then studied at the University of Vienna between 1906 and 1910 under Franz Serafin Exner and Friedrich Hasenohrl, as well as conducting experimental work with K.W.F. Kohlrausch. From an early age, Schrodinger was strongly influenced by the philosophy and Eastern religion of the Austrian philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer.