Miyamoto Musashi (宮本 武蔵, 1584 – 13 June 1645), also known as Shinmen Takezō, Miyamoto Bennosuke or, by his Buddhist name, Niten Dōraku, was a Japanese swordsman, philosopher, strategist, writer and r...
Not the wife of Robert de Molines
Héloïse [c. 1100–01?[1] – 16 May 1163–64?), variously Héloïse d'Argenteuil or Héloïse du Paraclet, was a French nun, philosopher, writer, scholar and abbess.
Summ...
Eintrag im »Gedenkbuch« des Bundesarchivs:
Stern, Paul
geboren am 02. August 1869
in Berlin/Stadt Berlin
wohnhaft in München
Todesdatum
09. Juni 1942
Freitod
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Irvin David Yalom (/ˈɜːrvɪn ˈjæləm/; born June 13, 1931) is an American existential psychiatrist who is emeritus professor of psychiatry at Stanford University, as well as author of both fiction and ...
Marsilio Ficino (Latin name: Marsilius Ficinus; 19 October 1433 – 1 October 1499) was an Italian scholar and Catholic priest who was one of the most influential humanist philosophers of the early Ita...
Tacitus (c. 56 – c. 117 CE) Senator and historian of the Roman Empire.
Hypatia - Ὑπατία of Alexandria (370 – 415 CE) Greek scholar from Alexandria, Egypt, considered the first notable woman in mathematics, philosophy and astronomy.
Agathias Scholasticus, Αγαθίας σχολαστικός (c. 530 – 582/594), of Myrina (Mysia), Greek poet and the principal historian of part of the reign of the Roman emperor Justinian I between 552 and 558. His famous works: Cyclus, (The Circle) - compilation of "modern" (in Justinian's day) poems and epigrams which Agathias edited, and in which he included about 100 of his own productions. Historiæ - a sequel to Procopius' (public) history of Justinian's reign.
Bēda (672/673 – 735) Saint Bede or the Venerable Bede. English monk, author and scholar. "The Father of English History", by his work "Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (The Ecclesiastical History of the English People).
Einhard (c. 775 – March 14, 840 ACE) Frankish scholar and courtier. Einhard was a dedicated servant of Charlemagne and his son Louis the Pious; his main work is a biography of Charlemagne, the Vita Karoli Magni, "one of the most precious literary bequests of the early Middle Ages."
عمر خیام Omar Khayyám (1048 – 1131) Persian polymath: philosopher, mathematician, astronomer and poet. He also wrote treatises on mechanics, geography, mineralogy, music, climatology and theology. He is believed to have written about a thousand four-line verses or rubaiyat (quatrains).
Geoffrey of Monmouth (Latin: Galfridus Monemutensis) (c. 1100 – c. 1155) Cleric and one of the major figures in the development of British historiography and the popularity of tales of King Arthur. Best known for his chronicle Historia Regum Britanniae ("History of the Kings of Britain").
Martín de Azpilcueta or Doctor Navarrus, was an important Spanish canonist and theologian in his time, and an early economist, the first to develop monetarist theory.
John Locke (29/8/1632 – 28/10/1704) English philosopher
Capt. Edward Johnson (1598 - 1672), seminal author of the first history of New England
XVIII century
Voltaire (21/11/1694 – 30/5/1778) French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher
Jean Jacques Rousseau (28/6/1712 – 2/7/1778) Genevan philosopher & writer. His political philosophy influenced the French Revolution as well as the overall development of modern political, sociological and educational thought.
Imanuel Kant (22/4/1724 – 12/2/1804) German philosopher
Karl Marx (5/5/1818 – 14/3/1883) German Jewish philosopher, historian, sociologist, economist and writer
John Venn (4/8/1834 – 4/4/1923) British logician and philosopher, famous for introducing the Venn diagram.
Friedrich Nietzsche (15/10/1844 – 25/8/1900) German philologist, philosopher, cultural critic, poet and composer.
XX century
Henri Bergson (1859 – 1941) French philosopher. Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927.
John Dewey (1859 – 1952) American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG OM CH TD PCc DL FRS RA (1874 – 1965) British statesman, army officer and writer (see: A History of the English-Speaking Peoples). Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1940 - 1945 & 1951 - 1955. Nobel Prize in Literature, 1953.
Sir Isaiah Berlin, OM, CBE, FBA (1909 – 1997) Russian-British philosopher and historian of ideas, regarded as one of the leading thinkers of the twentieth century, and as the dominant liberal scholar of his generation.
A.J. Ayers (1910 – 1989) British philosopher known for his promotion of logical positivism, and a Special Operations MI6 agent.
Bernard Lewis (1916 – 2018) British-American historian, scholar in Oriental studies
Prof. Georg Henrik von Wright (1916 – 2003) Finnish philosopher, succeeded Wittgenstein as a professor in Cambridge. He focused on analytic philosophy and philosophical logic. He was also interested in moralism and pessimism.