Category: Biography

Blaise Pascal biography Blaise Pascal was a French philosopher, writer, physicist, and mathematician. He was one of the founders of mathematical analysis, probability theory and projective geometry, author of the basic law of hydrostatics. Pascal is also known for the discovery of the formula of binomial coefficients, the invention of a hydraulic press and a…

Bishop George Berkeley Irish philosopher and Anglican Bishop of Cloyne, born in Kilkenny. Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, he spent several years in London, where he knew Swift, Pope and Addison. In 1728–31 he taught at Rhode Island in preparation for the carrying out of his ill-fated plan to found a missionary college in Bermuda,…

About Author Nelle Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1926, in a small town of Monroeville in the southwestern of the state of Alabama. She was the youngest daughter of Amasa Coleman Lee and Frances Finch Lee. The family had three other children. Her father used to own a newspaper and worked as an…

Marcus Tullius Cicero, born in 106 BC in Arpinum near Rome, was a great Roman philosopher, politician, orator, and lawyer. Being the son of a well-to-do landowner, he was the first to achieve the Roman office and become the consul among the whole family. His father’s library was the place where he began studying the…

About Author Stieg Larsson is a Swedish writer and journalist known primarily for his award-winning Girl With a Dragon Tattoo Series. Contrary to what one may think, Larsson is not only a talented author of well-known detective novels. In addition to his prominent writing skills, he was a socialist activist who fought sexism, racism, and…

About Author J. R. R. Tolkien – the “father of big fantasy” J. R. R. Tolkien is an iconic figure in world of literature and culture in general. He is an outstanding English writer, linguist, classic of world literature of the twentieth century and founder of the literary genre of fantasy. Actually, the fantasy was…

Democritus (born at Abdera, about 460 BCE) was a Greek philosopher also famous as the “Laughing Philosopher” for his resilient and comical attitude to life. There is also an assumption that people called him “The Mocker” because he used to laugh at others’ foolishness. Although both stories cannot be proved as facts. There is little…

About Author Charlotte Bronte (April 21, 1816 – March 31, 1855) was an English poetess and writer hiding her true name behind the nom de plume Currer Bell. Living in the Victorian era, her contemporaries considered Bronte woman first, artist second. To escape unnecessary criticism, Charlotte used a male name. She started writing poems in…

About Author Jerome David Salinger is an American writer who is primarily known for his “The Catcher in the Rye” novel. The novel was primarily intended for the youth audience but is now popular among all age groups. Salinger’s books open to the readers a world of a naïve and delicate artist who reminds each…

Niccolo Machiavelli biography Niccolò Machiavelli was an Italian thinker, philosopher, writer, and politician. He held the post of Secretary of the Second Chancery in Florence, was responsible for the diplomatic relations of the republic, the author of military theoretical works. He acted as a supporter of a strong state power, which can be to strengthen…