Category: Biography

Karl Marx biography Karl Marx was a German philosopher, sociologist, political scientist, economist, journalist, the protagonist of the workers’ socialist movement and one of the founders of the First International (The International Workingmen’s Association). His scholarly and political studies are combined into a theoretical social science doctrine, which in his name was called Marxism and…

Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege was a German logician, mathematician, philosopher, and representative of the school of Analytical Philosophy. Formulated the idea of logicism, that is, the direction in the foundations of mathematics and philosophy of mathematics, the main thesis is the statement about “the constitution of mathematics to logic.” Gottlob Frege was born in 1848…

About Author Jonathan Swift who is also well-known by his pseudonym Isaac Bickerstaff was born in Dublin in November 30, 1667. This author is very popular even nowadays for his numerous exciting texts and prose. But the most popular text by which we know him is “Gulliver’s Travels” (1726). But first things first, let’s get…

St (Aurelius Augustinus) Augustine (of Hippo)   Latin Father of the Church and theologian, born at Tagaste (Souk Arhas), Numidia (now Algeria). Son of a Roman officer, Patricius, a pagan, and a Christian mother, [St] Monica, he practised no religion as a youth but was attracted to Manichaen dualism (Mani). He studied rhetoric and law…

About Author The recording angel of the Great War and an acclaimed German writer, Erich Maria Remarque (July 22, 1898 – September 25, 1917) was also a Hollywood celebrity. A boy from a strict Catholic family woke up popular after publishing his landmark novel All Quiet on the Western Front. A former veteran himself, Remarque…

Epicurus was a Greek philosopher and the founder of the philosophical school of Epicureanism. His main goal was to find the answer to an extremely difficult question – what makes people happy. His influence can be felt in teachings if such prominent figures as Friedrich Nietzsche, Margaret Cavendish, Thomas Jefferson, John Locke and others. Epicurus…

August Comte August Comte was a French philosopher, known above all for being the founder of positivism, the first philosopher of science and introducing the new subject ‘Sociology’ that he divided into two categories – social statics, which force people together, and social dynamics, which bring about social changes. August Comte was born in 1798…

Friedrich Schelling biography Friedrich Schelling was a German philosopher, representative of classical German philosophy. He was a friend, and then the opponent of Hegel. He was greatly admired in the philosophical world of Germany in the early 19th century, before the appearance of Hegel. Having lost to Hegel an open philosophical discussion in the early…

About Author At the very beginning of the Greek culture, there is a name of legendary Homer. He is an ancient Greek writer and author of the well-known poems “Iliad” and “Odyssey”. Like a rising sun, Homer is a sparkling flash emerging from the darkness of the Hellenic world and shedding light on Ellas and…

About Author Henry Fielding was born in Somerset in 1707. The son of an army lieutenant and a judge’s daughter, he was educated at Eton School and the University of Leiden before returning to England where he wrote a series of farces, operas and light comedies. Fielding formed his own company and was running the…