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Information courtesy of various sources, including the following A significant biography of the Gucksmann family: Zorn eines Lebens | Jüdische Allgemeine

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Pietro d'Abano, also known as Petrus de Apono, Petrus Aponensis or Peter of Abano (c. 1257 – 1316), was an Italian philosopher, astrologer, and professor of medicine in Padua. He was born in the Ital...

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Jean Bodin , né en 1529 à Angers et mort en 1596, à Laon, est un jurisconsulte, et économiste, philosophe et théoricien politique français, qui influença l’histoire intellectuelle de l’Europe par la fo...

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Heinrich Khunrath (c. 1560 – 9 September 1605), or Dr. Henricus Khunrath as he was also called, was a German physician, hermetic philosopher, and alchemist. Frances Yates considered him to be a link ...

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Augustin Chaboseau (17 June 1868 – 2 January 1946) is the original organizer and promulgation officer of the Traditional Martinist Order (TMO), Occultist and Historian. Notably, his founding was in ...

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Ben Sijes overleefde de oorlog wel in tegenstelling tot zijn 3 jaar jongere zuster Rebecca . Ben Sijes werkte bij het Rijks Instituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie.

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see also Ari Joskowicz, The Rain of Ash, ch 3.

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Political scientist. Fled to relatives in the US in 1938, returned to Germany in 1953. Her last book "Kulturelle Entwicklung im Judentum von der Aufklärung bis zur Gegenwart" (Wuppertal, 1969) c...

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Katharine Dorothea Ewart (November 26, 1870 – May 21, 1956) was a British historian and author of books on Italian history.

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Rolf Schock (/ˈrɔːlf, ˈrɒlf ˈʃɒk/; 5 April 1933 – 5 December 1986) was a Swedish–American philosopher and artist, born in Cap-d'Ail, France of German parents.

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George F. Jewsbury (born November 26, 1941) is an American historian who has collaborated on several textbooks in the Civilization: Past & Present series. He joined authors T. Walter Wallbank, Alasta...

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Gómez Suárez de Figueroa, el Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, nació en Cuzco (Perú) en 1539 y murió en Córdoba en 1616. Pese a ser hijo natural, estuvo vinculado a lo más selecto del nuevo grupo dominant...

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Katharine Swynford Lambton PhD FBA OBE (8 February 1912 – 19 July 2008), usually known as A.K.S. Lambton, was a British historian and leading figure on medieval and early modern Persian history, Persia...

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In December 2016, Adelman was named a Member of the Order of Canada for his activist work on behalf of and his scholarship on refugees. He was awarded the CM (Member of the Order of Canada) on...

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Felicja Karay was born as Fela Schächter in Kraków on 26 January 1927. After the German invasion ‒ now a schoolgirl ‒ she fled through Eastern Poland without finding shelter, so she returned to Kraków ...

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జిడ్డు కృష్ణమూర్తి మే 12, 1895 న ఆంధ్ర ప్రదేశ్ లోని మదనపల్లె లో ఒక తెలుగు బ్రాహ్మణ కుటుంబం లో జన్మించాడు. ఆయన ఓ ప్రముఖ తత్వవేత్త. 1929 నుండి 1986 లో తను మరణించే వరకు ప్రపంచం నలుమూలల ప్రయాణిస్తూ తాత్విక...

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Spencer (27 April 1820 – 8 December 1903) was an English philosopher, biologist, anthropologist, and sociologist famous for his hypothesis of social Darwinism whereby superior physical force shapes his...

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Historian and Philosopher John Fiske adopted his mother’s maiden name, which was Fisk without the “e.” When the Connecticut Legislature approved the name change, they erroneously spelled it Fiske,...

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Sir Laurens Jan van der Post , CBE (13 December 1906 – 16 December 1996) was a 20th-century Afrikaner author, farmer, war hero, political adviser to British heads of government, close friend of Prince ...

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