Category: Biography

Greek philosopher, born in Clazamenae, Asia Minor (now Turkey). He lived in Athens and originated the idea that all things are composed of small particles, ‘seeds’ or atoms, the rearrangement of which was the cause of change, and he discovered the true cause of eclipses. He also believed that the world was flat and that…

About Author Umberto Eco was an Italian writer of fiction, essays, academic texts, and children’s books, and certainly one of the finest authors of the twentieth century. A professor of semiotics at the University of Bologna, Eco’s brilliant fiction is known for its playful use of language and symbols, its astonishing array of allusions and…

About Author Durante degli Alighieri (1265 – 1321), who is mostly known as Dante, was the most celebrated Italian writer of the Late Middle Ages. Credited as the person who rediscovered the Italian language, Dante provided an encyclopedic overview of t beliefs, values, and morals of the medieval times in his epic poem The Divine…

Friedrich Nietzsche biography Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher, classical philologist, psychologist, poet, cultural critic, and composer. Frederich Nietzsche was born in 1844 in Röcken (not far from Leipzig, Saxony province in the city of Prussia) in the family of the Lutheran pastor Carl Ludwig Nietzsche. In 1854, he entered Domgymnasium in Naumburg. After…

French philosopher. His philosophical ideas brought him a contemporary esteem second only to that of Descartes, many of whose views he shared. Dismissing the information provided by the senses as confused, Malebranche taught that truth could only be apprehended through what he termed ‘clear ideas’ and that the seat of such ‘clear ideas’ (though not…

About Author Do you know that Ralph Ellison (1913-1994) was an American critic and novelist? He made a significant impact on the developing of American literature. The most famous book that made him a well-known author is Invisible Man.   Early life He was the second child and had two brothers, the older of which…

About Author Mary Shelley is often known as a wife of a poet Percy Shelley and the author of the Gothic novel “Frankenstein”. Besides editing the works of her husband, Mrs. Shelley wrote many novels, drama pieces, essays and short stories before and after “Frankenstein”. However, only one of her hovels deserved the spotlight that…