Category: Biography
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
About Author Francis Scott Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) is the writer who represents the entire epoch known as the jazz age. He rose to prominence at the age of 24 just after his debut novel, This Side of Paradise, was printed. But most of the acclaim came to him in the…
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Honoré de Balzac
About Author Honoré de Balzac was a nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the fall of Napoléon Bonaparte in 1815. Due to his keen observation of fine detail…
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Charles Dickens
About Author Without doubt Charles Dickens (February 7, 1812 – June 9, 1870) was a literary phenomenon of his time. His unique writing style, astute observation of the societal hypocrisy, and a brilliant satire have made his novels world classics. He created such memorable characters as Ebenezer Scrooge, Pip, or Miss Havisham that have become…
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Daniel Defoe
About Author Daniel Defoe (September 13, 1660 – April 24, 1731) is one of the most prolific English writers of all times. Having approximately 200 pen names, he had written hundreds of works on politics, religion, crime, and psychology. The novel that brought this writer worldwide popularity is Robinson Crusoe, a story of a castaway…
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Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict)
Baruch (Benedict) Spinoza biography Baruch Spinoza was a Dutch philosopher, rationalist, naturalist of Sephardi/Portuguese origin, one of the main representatives of the philosophy of Modern History. Baruch Spinoza, also known as Benedict de Spinoza, was born in 1632 in Amsterdam, Dutch Republic. His father was a successful merchant who had his own firm. Young Spinoza…
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Pythagoras
Pythagoras biography Pythagoras was an Ancient Greek philosopher, mathematician, religious and political figure, founder of Pythagoreanism, which became a legend and source of discussions in ancient times. In 306 BC, a monument at the Roman Forum was put in his honor as the most intelligent of the Greeks. Pythagoras was born in 570 BC in…
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Husserl
Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl German philosopher, and mathematician, born in Moravia. He converted from Judaism in 1887, studied at Leipzig and Berlin, and at Vienna came under the influence of Franz Brentano and made philosophy his career. He lectured at Halle 1887–1901 and became professor at Göttingen 1901–16 and Freiburg 1916–28, being succeeded by his…
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Franz Kafka
About Author Childhood and Early Years The birth of the future popular author took place in Prague, in the Jewish ghetto. The boy was born on July 3rd, 1883, in Jews family. Franz’s father named Herman Kafka earned his living by selling haberdashery. His family came from the Jewish community of South Czech. The boy’s…
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Burke, Edmund
Edmund Burke Edmund Burke (born in Dublin in 1729) is known to a wide public as a hugely influential orator, philosopher, political thinker and a strong adherent of the American Revolution. His education began with home studying, and because his mother was Catholic, he was later sent to a Quaker boarding school, though raised in…
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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Biography Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a French philosopher, writer, thinker of the Enlightenment. He was also a musicologist, composer, botanist, and the most prominent representative of sentimentalism. He is sometimes regarded the forerunner of the Great French Revolution. Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born in 1712 in Geneva. The mother of Jean-Jacques passed away after giving…