Category: Biography

About Author Lewis Carroll was born in the village of Daresbury in the English county of Cheshire on January 27, 1832. His father was a parish priest, he also engaged in the education of Lewis, in addition to his other children. In total, the Carroll family had four boys and seven girls. He showed himself…

About Author William Shakespeare (April 26 1564, Stratford-upon-Avon, England – April 23 1616) was an English poet and playwright, often considered the greatest English-speaking writer and one of the best dramatists in the world. Often referred to as the national poet of England. The works that have reached us, including some that were written jointly…

Gorgias was an ancient Greek philosopher, Siceliote, sophist and one of the brightest orators in the history of mankind. He was a supporter of slave-owning democracy, an opponent of Socrates and Plato as ideologists of the aristocracy. It was Gorgias who approved the principle of “rhetoric-master of persuasion” and developed a number of means by…

Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus was a Dutch philosopher, theologian, priest, teacher and Renaissance humanist (also called ‘The Prince of Humanists’) known above all for being one of the greatest thinkers of Europe, a believer in freedom of choice and the translator of The New Testament into Greek that caused a theological revolution. Most of the historians…

John Mill biography John Stuart Mill was a British philosopher, economist, and civil servant. He made a significant contribution to social science, political science, and political economy. He made a fundamental contribution to the philosophy of liberalism, insisted on the concept of individual freedom, as opposed to unlimited state control. He was a supporter of…

St. Albertus Magnus (Albrecht, Count of Bollstadt) German philosopher. Renowned for the depth and breadth of his knowledge, he proved himself a great teacher of the Dominican order, his most famous pupil being St Thomas *Aquinas, with whom he contributed to the infusion of Aristotelianism into medieval theology. His work in natural science drew on…

About Author Life of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra This famous author was born in Spain in the year 1547. He is well-known as a novelist, poet, playwright, and, what is the most important – the creator of Don Quixote. After the novel saw the world, he became one of the most important Spanish writers of…

Thomas Hobbes was an English philosopher, materialist, one of the founders of the theory of social contract. The main interests of Hobbes were political philosophy, history, ethics, and geometry. He was a classical representative of English philosophy during the English Revolution, he consistently developed a system of rational philosophy, which covers not only the doctrine…

Empedocles lived in Acragas (Agrigentum)on the shores of Sicily. This is a city that was one of the great Greek trading towns on the Sicilian coast. The exact dates of birth and death of Empedocles are unknown. Some ancient authors claim that he lived 60 years, others – more than 100 years. According to some…

Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius Roman theologian and philosopher. Born into one of the more eminent families of the Roman aristocracy, not much is known of his life before his imprisonment in 522 and his execution, on a false charge of treason, in 525. Boethius wrote extensively upon the corpus of Classical Greek texts, producing translations,…