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Francois Jacob MP (1920 - 2013)

François Jacob , né le 17 juin 1920 à Nancy et mort le 19 avril 20131, est un chercheur en biologie français. En 1965, il est récompensé du prix Nobel de physiologie ou médecine. Il est par ailleurs Co...

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Capt. Edward Johnson, immigrant MP (c.1598 - 1672)

From an unknown source; "Captain Edward Johnson was born in 1599, and before emigrating to New England, resided at Herne Hill, near Canterbury, County of Kent, England. His Will indicates that he was...

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Emory Washburn, Governor (1800 - 1877)

Emory Washburn (February 14, 1800 – March 18, 1877) was a United States lawyer, politician, and historian. He was Governor of Massachusetts for one term (from 1854 to 1855), and served for many years...

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Charles Kingsley, Revd. (1819 - 1875)

Charles Kingsley (12 June 1819 – 23 January 1875) was a minister of the Church of England, a university professor, historian and novelist. He is particularly associated with the West Country and nort...

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Mirabeau MP (1749 - 1791)

Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau , plus communément appelé Mirabeau, né le 9 mars 1749 au Bignon-Mirabeau, mort le 2 avril 1791 à Paris, fut simultanément ou successivement un révolutionnaire ...

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Gabriel de Riquetti de Mirabeau MP (1715 - 1789)

Victor Riqueti , marquis de Mirabeau, né à Pertuis le 5 octobre 1715, et mort à Argenteuil le 13 juillet 1789, est un économiste et philosophe français. Victor Riqueti est marquis de Mirabeau, comte ...

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Jean Edmond Cyrus Rostand MP (1894 - 1977)

Jean Edmond Cyrus Rostand , né le 30 octobre 1894 à Paris (17e arrondissement) et mort le 4 septembre 1977 à Ville-d'Avray (Hauts-de-Seine)1, est un écrivain, moraliste, biologiste, historien des scien...

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Victor Basch MP (1863 - 1944)

Victor Basch , né le 18 août 1863 à Budapest, aujourd'hui en Hongrie, et mort assassiné avec sa femme par la milice française, le 10 janvier 1944 à Neyron dans l'Ain, est un philosophe, universitaire f...

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René Cassin MP (1887 - 1976)

René Samuel Cassin (né le 5 octobre 1887 à Bayonne, mort le 20 février 1976 à Paris), était un juriste, diplomate et homme politique français. Membre du gouvernement de la France libre pendant la secon...

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Emmanuel Viollet le Duc (1781 - 1857)

Emmanuel-Louis-Nicolas Viollet-le-Duc est un littérateur français, né à Paris en mai 1781 et mort à Fontainebleau en juillet 1857.

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André Siegfried MP (1875 - 1959)

André Siegfried , né au Havre le 21 avril 1875 et mort à Paris le 28 mars 1959, est un sociologue, historien et géographe français, pionnier de la sociologie électorale.

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Jean-François Champollion MP (1790 - 1832)

Jean-François Champollion dit Champollion le Jeune (né le 23 décembre 1790 à Figeac, dans le Lot et mort le 4 mars 1832 à Paris), est un égyptologue français. Déchiffreur des hiéroglyphes, il est consi...

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Hugo de Groot MP (1583 - 1645)

See the profile of Hugo de Groot on Wikipedia here . Hugo laid the foundations for international law. Hugo de Groot - Portrait by Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt, 1631

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Michel de L'Hôpital, chancelier de France MP (c.1506 - 1573)

Michel de l'Hospital , né vers 1506 à Aigueperse dans le Puy-de-Dôme, et mort le 13 mars 1573 au château de Belesbat à Boutigny-sur-Essonne1, est conseiller au parlement de Paris (1537), ambassadeur au...

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Henri Poincaré MP (1854 - 1912)

Henri Poincaré est un mathématicien, physicien, philosophe et ingénieur français né le 29 avril 1854 à Nancy et mort le 17 juillet 1912 à Paris. Il a réalisé des travaux d'importance majeure en optique...

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Charles Louis de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu MP (1689 - 1755)

Charles-Louis de Secondat , baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu, connu sous le nom de Montesquieu, est un penseur politique, précurseur de la sociologie, philosophe et écrivain français des Lumières, n...

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Michel de Montaigne MP (1533 - 1592)

Michel de Montaigne , (Michel Eyquem, seigneur de Montaigne 1, né le 28 février 1533 et mort le 13 septembre 1592 à Saint-Michel-de-Montaigne (Dordogne),est un moraliste de la Renaissance et un philoso...

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Alexis de Tocqueville MP (1804 - 1859)

Alexis-Henri-Charles Clérel, vicomte de Tocqueville , né à Paris le 29 juillet 1805 et mort à Cannes le 16 avril 18591, est un penseur politique, homme politique, historien et écrivain français. Il est...

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Hippolyte Taine MP (1828 - 1893)

Hippolyte Taine, historien,essayiste, membre de l'Académie Française voir le site : Hippolyte Taine prit en charge l'éducation intellectuelle de son neveu, André Chevrillon , après la mort du pèr...

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Kenneth Burke (1897 - 1973)

Kenneth Duva Burke (May 5, 1897 – November 19, 1993) was an American literary theorist and philosopher. Burke's primary interests were in rhetoric and aesthetics. Burke became a highly distinguis...

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John Venn MP (1834 - d.)

John Venn FRS Is the second cousin once removed of Author E.M Forster From Wikipedia (4 August 1834 – 4 April 1923), was a British logician and philosopher. He is famous for introducing the V...

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John Emerich Edward, 1st Baron Acton MP (1834 - 1902)

John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton ....... - Wikipedia - English John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, The Right Honourable The Lord Acton KCVO, DL=== Member of Parliament for BridgnorthIn office -...

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Martín de Azpilcueta MP (1492 - c.1586)

Martín de Azpilcueta Jaureguízar (n. Barásoain, Reino de Navarra, 13 de diciembre de 1492 - Roma, 21 de junio de 1586). Doctor navarrus. Uno de los más importantes intelectuales de su tiempo. Biograf...

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Jakov Baničević (Jacobus de Banisius) (1466 - 1532)

Zaštitnik i prijatelj Erazma i Dürera U plejadi starih hrvatskih uglednika posebno mjesto zauzima Jakov Baničević (Jacobus Banisius), ugledni diplomat i humanist koji je početkom 16. stoljeća »bio po...

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James Phinney Baxter III (1893 - 1975)

James Phinney Baxter III (February 15, 1893 – June 17, 1975) was an American historian, educator and academic. He won the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for history, for his book Scientists Against Time. He was...

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George Herbert Mead (1863 - 1931)

George Herbert Mead (1863–1931) was an American philosopher, sociologist and psychologist, primarily affiliated with the University of Chicago, where he was one of several distinguished pragmatists. ...

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Joseph Dow (1807 - 1889)

Joseph Dow is the author of the "History of Hampton," a monumental work on the early history and genealogy of Hampton, New Hampshire. "Let us pause each April 12th, and pay honor to the birthday of...

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Sir Richard Colt Hoare, 2nd Baronet Hoare, of Barn Elms MP (1758 - 1838)

Statue of Richard Colt Hoare in Salisbury Cathedral. Sir Richard Colt Hoare, 2nd Baronet FRS (9 December 1758 – 19 May 1838) was an English antiquarian, archaeologist, artist, and traveller of the 18...

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Nellie Snyder Yost (1905 - 1992)

Nellie Irene Snyder Yost (June 20, 1905 – January 16, 1992) was a historian and writer. She was an active member of the Nebraska State Historical Society, serving for many years as its president,...

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Eric Foner MP

Eric Foner is an American historian. He has been a faculty member in the department of history at Columbia University since 1982 and writes extensively on political history, the history of freedom, the...

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Vincent Scully (1920 - d.)

Vincent Joseph Scully, Jr. (born August 21, 1920) is Sterling Professor Emeritus of the History of Art in Architecture at Yale University, and the author of several books on the subject. Architect ...

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Shelby Foote, Jr. MP (1916 - 2005)

Shelby Dade Foote, Jr. (November 17, 1916 – June 27, 2005) was an American historian and novelist who wrote The Civil War: A Narrative, a massive, three-volume history of the war. With geographic and c...

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Herbert Spinden (1879 - 1967)

Historian of Ancient American art. Spinden was the grandson of Swiss immigrants. As a teenager he worked on railroad survey parties in the western United States and briefly followed the gold rush in ...

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Ethel Armes (1876 - 1945)

Ethel Marie Armes (1876 – 1945) was an American journalist and historian. Daughter of Col. George Augustus Armes and Lucy Hamilton Kerr, the daughter of John Bozman Kerr, Ethel was brought up in ...

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Aubrey Gwynn (1892 - 1983)

Aubrey Osborn Gwynn (1892-18 May 1983) was an Irish Jesuit historian. Life He came from a Protestant academic family, the son of Stephen Gwynn and the grandson of John Gwynn, professor of the...

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Denis Rolleston Gwynn (1893 - 1973)

Denis Roleston Gwynn (1893–1973) was an Irish journalist, writer and professor of modern Irish history. He served in World War I. He was the second son of Stephen Gwynn, writer and scholar. He wa...

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Peter Force (1790 - 1868)

Peter Force (November 26, 1790 – January 23, 1868) was a 19th-century politician, newspaper editor, archivist, and historian. Force's lifelong desire to establish an American national library finally...

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George Rawlinson (1812 - 1902)

Canon George Rawlinson (23 November 1812 – 7 October 1902) was a 19th century English scholar and historian. He was born at Chadlington, Oxfordshire, and was the younger brother of Sir Henry Rawlinso...

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Professor John Cawte Beaglehole, OM (1901 - 1971)

John Cawte Beaglehole, OM, CMG (13 June 1901 – 10 October 1971) was a New Zealand historian whose greatest scholastic achievement was the editing of James Cook’s three journals of exploration, togeth...

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Jared Sparks (1789 - 1866)

Jared Sparks (May 10, 1789 – March 14, 1866) was an American historian, educator, and Unitarian minister. He served as President of Harvard University from 1849 to 1853. Biography Born in W...

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Lucy Myers Wright Mitchell (1845 - 1888)

Lucy Myers Wright Mitchell (March 20, 1845 – March 10, 1888) was an American writer, historian, and expert on ancient art. Mitchell was one of the first Americans to write and publish a book on class...

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John Kirtland Wright (1891 - 1969)

John Kirtland Wright (1891–1969) was an American geographer, notable for his cartography, geosophy, and study of the history of geographical thought. He was the son of classical scholar John Henry Wr...

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Joseph Tracy (1793 - 1847)

Joseph Tracy (1793–1874) was a Protestant Christian minister, newspaper editor, historian and leading figure in the American Colonization Society of the early to mid-19th century. He is noted as a ty...

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Joshua Toulmin (1740 - 1815)

Joshua Toulmin (11 May [O.S. 30 April] 1740 – 23 July 1815) of Taunton, England was a noted theologian and a serial Dissenting minister of Presbyterian (1761–1764), Baptist (1765–1803), and then Unit...

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Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan (USA) [Rear Admiral (post retirement)] (1840 - 1914)

Alfred Thayer Mahan (September 27, 1840 – December 1, 1914) was a United States Navy flag officer, geostrategist, and historian, who has been called "the most important American strategist of the nin...

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Edward Bunbury, 7th Baronet (1778 - 1860)

Sir Henry Edward Bunbury, 7th Baronet (4 March 1778 – 13 April 1860) was a British soldier and historian. Sir Henry, son of the famous caricaturist, Henry William Bunbury and Catherine Horneck, w...

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General Sir William Francis Patrick Napier KCB (1785 - 1860)

Author of "History of the Peninsular War" Details taken from ? op=DESC&db=geolarson2&id=I0108 31 ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------ General Si...

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David Ramsay (1749 - 1815)

) David Ramsay (April 2, 1749 – May 8, 1815) was an American physician and historian from Charleston, South Carolina. He served as a South Carolina delegate to the Continental Congress in 1782–1783 a...

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Ralph Barton Perry (1876 - 1957)

Ralph Barton Perry (July 3, 1876 in Poultney, Vermont – January 22, 1957 in Boston, Massachusetts) was an American philosopher. Career He was educated at Princeton (B.A., 1896) and at Harvard...

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Barbara W. Tuchman (1912 - 1989)

Barbara Wertheim Tuchman (/ˈtʌkmən/; January 30, 1912 – February 6, 1989) was an American historian and author. She became widely known first for The Guns of August (later August 1914), a best-sellin...

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John K. Fairbank (1907 - 1991)

John King Fairbank (Chinese: 費正清; pinyin: Fèi Zhèngqīng; 24 May 1907 – 14 September 1991), was a prominent American academic and historian of China. Education and early career Fairbank was bo...

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Donald Davidson (1917 - 2003)

) Donald Herbert Davidson (March 6, 1917 – August 30, 2003) was an American philosopher born in Springfield, Massachusetts, who served as Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of Californ...

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Bernard Berenson (1865 - 1959)

Bernard Berenson (June 26, 1865 – October 6, 1959) was an American art historian specializing in the Renaissance. He was a major figure in pioneering art attribution and therefore establishing the ma...

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Eugene C. Barker (1874 - 1956)

Eugene Campbell Barker (November 10, 1874 – October 22, 1956) was a distinguished professor of Texas history at the University of Texas at Austin. He was the first living person to have a UT campus b...

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Corliss Lamont (1902 - 1995)

Corliss Lamont (March 28, 1902–April 26, 1995), was a socialist philosopher, and advocate of various left-wing and civil liberties causes. As a part of his political activities he was the Chairman of...

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Charles Peirce (1839 - 1914)

Charles Sanders Peirce ( /ˈpɜrs/ like "purse"; September 10, 1839 – April 19, 1914) was an American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist, born at 3 Phillips Place in Cambridge, Massach...

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William James (1842 - 1910)

Wikipedia Biographical Summary: "... William James (January 11, 1842 – August 26, 1910) was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher who was trained as a physician. He wrote influential boo...

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Doris Goodwin MP

Historian and author. Has a Ph.D. from Harvard University in Political Science. She is one of our country's foremost Presidential historians. She and her husband have three sons. Besides her love f...

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Caroline F. Ware (1899 - 1990)

Caroline Farrar Ware (1899–1990) was a professor of history at American University and a New Deal activist. Ware received her A.B. from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie in 1920, her A.M. from Rad...

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Bertha Putnam (1872 - 1960)

Bertha Haven Putnam (1872 – 26 February 1960) was an American historian, specialising on the judicial and administrative history of medieval England. Putnam grew up in Philadelphia, the daughter of G...

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Desiderius Erasmus MP (c.1469 - 1536)

'Desiderius Erasmus in de Nederlandse Wikipedia Goudæ conceptus, Roterodami natus (Rotterdam (waarschijnlijk), 28 oktober 1466, 1467 of 1469 - Bazel, 12 juli 1536) was een Nederlands priester, Augustij...

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Jean Jacques Rousseau MP (1712 - 1778)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (28 June 1712 – 2 July 1778) was a Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of 18th-century Romanticism of French expression. His political philosophy influenced the French Revol...

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Henry Brooks Adams MP (1838 - 1918)

He was an historian, novelist, academic, journalist, a political biographer and a philosopher, living in Washington, DC. Son of Charles Francis Adams (1807-86), ¤ grandson of John Quincy Adams (1767-18...

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Brooks Adams MP (1848 - 1927)

Brooks Adams (June 24, 1848, Quincy, Massachusetts - February 13, 1927, Boston), was an American historian and a critic of capitalism. He graduated from Harvard University in 1870 and studied at Harvar...

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Max Farrand (1869 - 1945)

Max Farrand, Ph.D. (March 29, 1869 – June 17, 1945) was an American university professor and writer of history. He was born in Newark, New Jersey, United States. He graduated from Princeton (A. B., 1...

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Heinrich Graetz MP (1817 - 1891)

Heinrich Graetz (October 31, 1817 - September 7, 1891) was amongst the first historians to write a comprehensive history of the Jewish people from a Jewish perspective. Born Tzvi Hirsh Graetz to a bu...

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Arthur Schlesinger (1888 - 1965)

. Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Sr. (February 27, 1888 – October 30, 1965) was an American historian. His son, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. was also a noted historian. Life and career Schlesinger's...

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Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (1917 - 2007)

. Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr. (October 15, 1917 - February 28, 2007) was an American historian and social critic whose work explored the American liberalism of political leaders including Franklin ...

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Jacques Barzun (1907 - 2012)

Jacques Martin Barzun (born November 30, 1907) is a French-born American historian of ideas and culture. He has written on a wide range of topics, but is perhaps best known as a philosopher of educat...

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John S.D. Eisenhower MP (1922 - 1967)

John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower (born August 3, 1922) is the son of President Dwight D. Eisenhower and his wife Mamie. He is a retired United States Army officer and the author of several books of militar...

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Andrew C. McLaughlin (1861 - 1947)

Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin (February 14, 1861 in Beardstown, Illinois – September 24, 1947) was an American historian born to Scottish immigrant parents. He received his bachelor's and law degrees ...

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Omar Khayyám, عمر خیام MP (1048 - 1131)

Omar Khayyám, ‏عمر خیام x (1048–1131) was a Persian polymath: philosopher, mathematician, astronomer and poet. He also wrote treatises on mechanics, geography, mineralogy, music, climatology and theolo...

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Agathias Scholasticus MP (c.530 - c.582)

Agathias or Agathias Scholasticus, Αγαθίας σχολαστικός (c. AD 530 - 582/594), of Myrina (Mysia), an Aeolian city in western Asia Minor (now in Turkey), was a Greek poet and the principal historian of p...

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Henry Cabot Lodge (1850 - 1924)

Henry Cabot Lodge (May 12, 1850 – November 9, 1924) was an American statesman, a Republican politician, and a noted historian from Massachusetts. While the title was not official, he is considered to...

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Howard Zinn MP (1922 - 2010)

"We were not born critical of existing society. There was a moment in our lives (or a month, or a year) when certain facts appeared before us, startled us, and then caused us to question beliefs that w...

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David דוד Gans גאנז MP (1541 - 1613)

David ben Solomon (Shlomo) ben Seligman Gans (German: David ben Salomon ben Seligmann Gans; also Ganz; Hebrew: דָּוִד בֶּן שְׁלֹמֹה גנז‎; 1541, Lippstadt - 25 August 1613, Prague) was a Jewish mathemat...

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Christian Mommsen, Nobel Prize in Literature, 1902 MP (1817 - 1903)

Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen (1817 - 1903) German historian and writer, famous for his masterpiece, Romische Geschichte ( "The History of Rome" ). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature ...

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Pythagoras of Samos MP (-570 - -495)

Pythagoras of Samos (Ancient Greek: Ὁ Πυθαγόρας ὁ Σάμιος Ho Pythagóras ho Sámios "Pythagoras the Samian", or simply Ὁ Πυθαγόρας; c. 570–c. 495 BCE) was an Ionian Greek philosopher, mathematician, and f...

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Henri Bergson, Nobel Prize in Literature, 1927 MP (1859 - 1941)

Henri Bergson , né le 18 octobre 1859 à Paris où il est mort le 4 janvier 19411, est un philosophe français. Il a publié quatre principaux ouvrages : d’abord en 1889, l’Essai sur les données immédiates...

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Sir Alfred Jules Ayer (1910 - 1989)

Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer (29 October 1910, London – 27 June 1989, London) was a British philosopher known for his promotion of logical positivism, particularly in his books Language, Truth, and ...

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Simone Weil MP (1909 - 1943)

Simone Adolphine Weil est une philosophe française, née à Paris le 3 février 1909 et morte à Ashford le 24 août 1943. Elle est la sœur du mathématicien André Weil. Simone Weil February 1909 in Paris,...

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca, The Younger MP (-1 - 65)

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (often known simply as Seneca , or Seneca the Younger ) (c. 1 BCE – ACE 65) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and in one work humorist, of the Silver Age of Lat...

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Philon / Philo of Alexandria / פילון האלכסנדרוני MP (-20 - 50)

Philon (20 BCE – 50 ACE), known also as Philo of Alexandria (gr. Φίλων ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς), Philon Judaeus , Philo Judaeus of Alexandria , Yedidia , " Philon ", and Philo the Jew , was a Hellenistic Jewish ...

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Charles R. Boxer, historian (1904 - 2000)

Charles Ralph Boxer FBA (8 March 1904 at Sandown on the Isle of Wight – 27 April 2000 at St. Albans, Hertfordshire) was a distinguished historian of Dutch and Portuguese maritime and colonial history. ...

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Aldous Leonard Huxley MP (1894 - 1963)

Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family. Among Huxley's best known novels is BRAVE NEW WORLD (1...

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Harriet Martineau (1802 - 1876)

Harriet Martineau (June 12, 1802 – June 27, 1876) was an English social theorist and Whig writer, often cited as the first woman sociologist. Martineau wrote more than 50 books and is significant to th...

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Hypatia - Ὑπατία of Alexandria MP (c.360 - 415)

Hypatia Bio Hypatia ( /haɪˈpeɪʃə/; Greek: Ὑπατία, Hypatía; born between 350 CE and 370 CE; died March 415) was a Greek scholar from Alexandria, Egypt, considered the first notable woman in mathemat...

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Uriel da Costa MP (1585 - 1640)

Uriel da Costa (c. 1585 – April 1640) or Uriel Acosta (from the Latin form of his Portuguese surname, Costa, or da Costa) was a philosopher and skeptic from Portugal. Some sources give his year of birt...

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Giorgio Vasari MP (1511 - 1574)

Giorgio Vasari (30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574) was an Italian painter, writer, historian and architect, who is today famous for his biographies of Italian artists, considered the ideological foundation o...

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Noam Chomsky MP

Avram Noam Chomsky (pronounced /ˌnoʊm ˈtʃɒmski/, Hebrew: חומסקי נועם אַבְרָהָם; born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, and political activist. He is an Instit...

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel MP (1770 - 1831)

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (August 27, 1770 – November 14, 1831) was a German philosopher, one of the creators of German Idealism. His historicist and idealist account of reality as a whole revoluti...

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Bernard Lewis MP

Bernard Lewis, FBA (born May 31, 1916) is a widely read expert on the Middle East , and is regarded as one of the West’s leading scholars of that region. His advice has been frequently sought by policy...

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Saxo "cognomine Longus" Grammaticus (1150 - c.1220)

Sagaskriver på 1200 tallet. Skrev om Hamlet mm. Student på en av de to første universitetene, i Paris. Se: Saxo Grammaticus . Saxo Grammaticus (c. 1150-1220) also known as Saxo cognomine Longus was a...

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Mary Godwin MP (1759 - 1797)

"I am going to be the first of a new genus. I am not born to tread in the beaten track - the peculiar bent of my nature pushes me on" Mary Wollstonecraft in letter to Everina, 1774 Mary Wollstonecr...

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John Locke, Philosopher MP (1632 - 1704)

John Locke (1632-1703), son of John Locke, of Pensford, and Ann Agnes (or Agnes Ann) Keene (1597-1654) John Locke (August 29, 1632 – October 28, 1704) was an English philosopher. Locke is consi...

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Voltaire MP (1694 - 1778)

Voltaire François-Marie Arouet (French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃swa maʁi aʁuˈwe]; 21 November 1694 – 30 May 1778), better known by the pen name Voltaire (pronounced: [volˈtɛʁ]), was a French Enlightenment...

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Wincenty Kadłubek MP (1161 - 1223)

Blessed Wincenty Kadłubek (1161 – 8 March 1223), also known as Vincent Kadlubek, Vincent Kadlubo, Vincent Kadlubko, Vincent of Kraków, Master Vincentius, was a thirteenth century Bishop of Cracow and h...

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Sima Qian, 司马迁 MP (-145 - -86)

Sima Qian, 司马迁 Sima Qian (ca. 145 or 135 BCE – 86 BCE), also called Ssu-ma Ch'ien, was a Prefect of the Grand Scribes (太史公) of the Han Dynasty. He is regarded as the father of Chinese historiography ...

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Tacitus MP (c.57 - c.117)

Tacitus Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus (AD 56 – AD 117) was a senator and a historian of the Roman Empire. The surviving portions of his two major works — the Annals and the Histories —examine ...

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