Category: Biography

David Hume was a Scottish philosopher, empiricist, historian and economist, and an eminent figure in the British Empiricism, first known for his works in the field of epistemology. David Hume was born in 1711 in Edinburgh, Scotland. His father, Joseph Home of Ninewells, was an advocate, and his mother, Katherine, was the daughter of Sir…

About Author You know some facts about Flannery O’Connor, but don’t understand who this woman was? This essay will help you to reveal some new facts in the biography of Flannery. She was one of the greatest southern writers, novelists and just personalities in the 20th century. Now we can open a new page of…

About Author Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright, one of the renovators of universal theater, was born on 20 March 1828 in Skien, Norway. His father owned a spirit’s distillery that went bankrupt when he was six years old. When Ibsen was fifteen years old, he went to live in Grimstad, not far from his hometown, where…

Socrates biography Socrates was a Classical Greek philosopher, the first one who left no written source after himself. The doctrine of Socrates is largely known through the accounts of his followers, in particular, of his most distinguished disciple Plato who outlined the ideas of the teacher in the Apology of Socrates. Socrates’s teaching marks a…

Marcus Aurelius biogrpahy Marcus Aurelius was a Roman emperor and representative of late Stoicism. He is often called as “emperor-philosopher” or “philosopher on the throne.” He was the last one if the Five Good Emperors, which is a term coined by Niccolo Machiavelli to speak of the five rulers of the Nerva-Antonin dynasty. Marcus Aurelius…

About Author Mark Twain became one of the most eminent literary pseudonyms of Samuel Langhorne Clemens. His biography is full of amazing events that will be interesting to historians studying his works. He was born at a time when Halley’s Comet flashed over the Earth. According to a mysterious coincidence, the second flight of this…

 Sir Alfred Jules Ayer British philosopher. Educated at Eton and Oxford, he was originally known as an expounder of logical positivism. He was Grote professor of the philosophy of mind and logic at London University 1946–59 and Wykeham professor of logic at Oxford 1959–78. His books include Language, Truth and Logic (1936), where he expounded the theory…

About Author Mrs. Atwood is known worldwide as a literary genius of Canadian heritage. She isn’t simply a talented writer, she is also a skilled literary critic and a fierce environmental activist. She won numerous awards and prizes, founded different writing organizations, and patented a number of tools that help writers develop their talents. In…

About Author Albert Camus – French writer, winner of the Nobel Prize. Albert Camus is French writer, dramatist, journalist, author of philosophical essays and Nobel Prize laureate. Camus was one of the most important authors and thinkers of the 20th century. In his artistic and philosophical works, he broke issues that were tangent to the…

Gottfried Leibniz biography Gottfried Wilhelm (von) Leibniz was a German philosopher, mathematician, polymath, linguist, logician, the founder and the first president of the Berlin Academy of Sciences. Gottfried Leibniz was born in 1646 in Leipzig (eastern Germany). His father died in when the boy was six years old, leaving his personal library, which became an important…