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Alexander Peloplaton

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Alexander , nicknamed Pēloplátōn , also known as Alexander of Seleucia and Alexander the Platonic, was a Greek rhetorician and Platonist philosopher of the age of the Antonines and the Second Sophistic.

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Sandon

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Sandon is an Orphic philosopher mentioned in the Suda. He is described briefly as a son of Hellanikos. He has been identified with the Sandon of Tarsus mentioned by Pseudo-Lucian in the essay Macrobii , who was the father of Athenodorus . His father Hellanicus may have been the Orphic philosopher of the late 2nd century mentioned by Damascius.

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Paconius Agrippinus

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Paconius Agrippinus was a Stoic philosopher of the 1st century. His father was put to death by the Roman emperor Tiberius on a charge of treason. Agrippinus himself was accused at the same time as Thrasea, around 67 AD, and was banished from Italy. As a philosopher he was spoken of with praise by Epictetus.

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Ellopion of Peparethus

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Ellopion of Peparethus was a Socratic philosopher and contemporary of Plato,who is mentioned only by Plutarch. He accompanied Plato and Simmias in philosophical discussions with an Ancient Egyptian priest named Chonuphis of Memphis: Simmias at once recollected: "Of your tablet, Pheidolaüs, I know nothing. But Agetoridas the Spartan came to Memphis with a long document from Agesilaus for the spokesman of the god, Chonuphis, with whom Plato, Ellopion of Peparethos and I had many philosophical discussions in those days. He brought orders from the king that Chonuphis should translate the writing, if he could make anything of it, and send the translation to him at once.

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Raymond Polin

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1910 - 2001 (91 years)

Raymond Polin was a French philosopher. He taught at the Paris University . He was the president of the University of Paris from 1976 to 1981. Literary works La création des valeurs, 1944La compréhension des valeurs, 1945Du laid, du mal, du faux, 1948

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R. De Staningtona

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R. De Staningtona was a friar, likely of the Dominican Order, who was at Oxford University in the mid-1250s. He composed a noteworthy summary of libri naturales by Aristotle. His summary was entitled Compilacio quedam liborum naturalium. The manuscript has never been edited although selections from it have appeared in the Journal of the History of Philosophy. The final work he summarized was De anima.

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Rafe Champion

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1945 - Present (81 years)

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Yves Brunsvick

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1921 - 1999 (78 years)

Yves Brunsvick was a famous humanist and philosopher of education. Initially a French teacher, in 1948 he joined the French National Commission , initially as assistant to the Secretary-General, Louis François. In 1958 he became head of the commission. Throughout his life, he had great connections in the cultural aspects of UNESCO and had many interest in the International Bureau of Education . Subsequently, he held the presidency of the IBE council from 1986 to 1989.

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Rod L. Evans

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1956 - Present (70 years)

Rod L. Evans is an American philosopher, author, and lecturer who writes and speaks on ethics, religion, political philosophy, and English usage. Evans graduated from Old Dominion University and received a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Virginia. He is currently Lecturer of Philosophy at Old Dominion University.

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Judah ben Solomon Canpanton

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Judah ben Solomon Canpanton was a Jewish ethical writer and philosopher. He was a student of Yom Tov b. Abraham Ishbili. He authored the work Arba'ah Kinyanim, which has been published, while other books remain in manuscript.

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Martin H:son Holmdahl

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1923 - 2015 (92 years)

Svante Martin Henriksson Holmdahl was a Swedish professor of anesthesiology, who was rector magnificus of Uppsala university between 1978 and 1989. Holmdahl began his medical studies in Uppsala in 1942. In 1953 he became responsible for the anesthesiology department at the Academic Hospital in Uppsala.

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Jerome Roche

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1942 - 1994 (52 years)

Jerome Lawrence Alexander Roche was a British musicologist, with a particular interest in Italian church music of the baroque era. Early life and education Roche was born in 1942 in Cairo, Egypt, the son of an army doctor. He was educated at Downside School, a Catholic independent school in Somerset, England, before studying music at St John's College, Cambridge, graduating with a BA in 1962. He went on to study for a PhD, under the supervision of Denis Arnold. His dissertation focussed on the development of vocal duets in Italian baroque church music.

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Jason Herbison

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1972 - Present (54 years)

Jason Herbison is an Australian television producer, screenwriter and novelist, most recently serving as the executive producer of the soap opera Neighbours. He has written scripts for numerous television serials, and has published several novels.

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W. R. Boyce Gibson

1869 - 1935 (66 years)

William Ralph Boyce Gibson was a British-Australian philosopher. He was an advocate of personal idealism. Biography He was born in Paris, the son of Reverend William Gibson, a Methodist minister and his wife Helen Wilhelmina, daughter of William Binnington Boyce.

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Paul Yorck von Wartenburg

1835 - 1897 (62 years)

Hans Ludwig David Paul, Graf Yorck von Wartenburg was a German lawyer, writer, and philosopher. Life Graf Yorck was descended from the Prussian general Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg. His father Hans David Ludwig and his mother Bertha von Brause were both related to Prussian military families. They lived in Klein Öls Castle, now part of the Oława district in Poland. His nephew was the jurist Peter Yorck von Wartenburg, who opposed Hitler.

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Guillaume Lamy

1644 - 1683 (39 years)

Guillaume Lamy was a French physician best known for his sympathies with Epicurean philosophy, and for his influence on materialists such as La Mettrie. He engaged in a lively dispute with Pierre Cressé over anatomical treatises, notably concerning the seat of the human soul.

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Muhammad Sadiq Ardestani

1644 - 1721 (77 years)

Muhammad Sadiq Ardestani is one of the Iranian Shia philosophers during Safavid period. Life Molla Muhammad Sadiq Ardestani, according to Henry Corbin, lived in the catastrophic period namely when Shah Sultan Hossein ruled out. his time coincided with siege of Isfahan by Afghans.

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Raymond Duncan

1874 - 1966 (92 years)

Raymond Duncan was an American dancer, artist, poet, craftsman, and philosopher, and brother of dancer Isadora Duncan. Biography Born in San Francisco on November 1, 1874, Duncan was the third of the four children of Joseph Charles Duncan and of Mary Isadora Gray . Their other children were Elizabeth, Augustin, and Isadora, a noted dancer. In 1891, at the age of 17, Raymond Duncan developed a theory of movement which he called kinematics, "a remarkable synthesis of the movements of labor and of daily life." He believed that the importance of labor lay in the development of the worker, not i...

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Leon of Salamis

401 BC - 400 BC (1 years)

Leon of Salamis was a historical figure, mentioned in Plato's Apology, Xenophon's Hellenica and Andocides' On the Mysteries . This Leon may also be the renowned Athenian general Leon of the Peloponnesian War.

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Wilhelm Esser

1798 - 1854 (56 years)

Wilhelm Esser was a German academic, logician, and philosopher. His works focused on logic, psychology, and moral philosophy. Esser is also identified as a post-Kantian logician. Biography Esser was born on February 21, 1798, in Düren, Germany. He received his primary education in this North Rhine-Westphalian town, studying science under a Jesuit priest at Ratheim before attending a gymnasium at his hometown. In 1814, he moved to Cologne, where he studied philology, philosophy, and theology. He then moved to Münster to continue his studies.

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George Herriman

George Herriman

1880 - 1944 (64 years)

George Joseph Herriman III was an American cartoonist best known for the comic strip Krazy Kat . More influential than popular, Krazy Kat had an appreciative audience among those in the arts. Gilbert Seldes' article "The Krazy Kat Who Walks by Himself" was the earliest example of a critic from the high arts giving serious attention to a comic strip. The Comics Journal placed the strip first on its list of the greatest comics of the 20th century. Herriman's work has been a primary influence on cartoonists such as Elzie C. Segar, Will Eisner, Charles M. Schulz, Robert Crumb, Art Spiegelman, Bil...

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Saint David

512 - 589 (77 years)

David was a Welsh bishop of Mynyw during the 6th century. He is the patron saint of Wales. David was a native of Wales, and tradition has preserved a relatively large amount of detail about his life. His birth date, however, is uncertain: suggestions range from 462 to 512. He is traditionally believed to be the son of Non and the grandson of Ceredig ap Cunedda, king of Ceredigion. The Welsh annals placed his death 569 years after the birth of Christ, but Phillimore's dating revised this to 601.

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George Herbert Palmer

George Herbert Palmer

1842 - 1933 (91 years)

George Herbert Palmer was an American scholar and author. He was a graduate, and then professor at Harvard University. He is also known for his published works, like the translation of The Odyssey and others about education and ethics, such as The New Education and The Glory of the Imperfect .

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Igor Terentiev

1892 - 1937 (45 years)

Igor Gerasimovich Terentiev was a Russian poet, artist, stage director, representative of Russian avant-garde. Biography and creative work Terentiev was born in Pavlograd into the family of lieutenant Gerasim Lvovich Terentiev and Elizabeth von Derfelden, daughter of a resigned cavalry captain. He had a brother and two sisters: Vladimir , Olga and Tatiana .

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Pietro da Cortona

Pietro da Cortona

1596 - 1669 (73 years)

Pietro da Cortona was an Italian Baroque painter and architect. Along with his contemporaries and rivals Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini, he was one of the key figures in the emergence of Roman Baroque architecture. He was also an important designer of interior decorations.

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Helgi Pjeturss

1872 - 1949 (77 years)

Helgi Pjeturss was an Icelandic geologist, philosopher, and spiritualist. In 1905 he became the first Icelander to graduate with a PhD in geology. He conducted extensive research on the geology of Iceland from 1898 to 1910. In 1919, Helgi started publishing Nýall, a collection of essays outlining his theories on what he referred to as astrobiology. Having conducted research on psychic phenomena, Helgi disagreed with spiritualism on several points. Most centrally, he held that the spirits contacted in séances and in dreams were not immaterial beings but material beings living on other planets....

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Paul Diel

1893 - 1972 (79 years)

Paul Diel was a French psychologist of Austrian origin who developed the method of introspective analysis and the psychology of motivation. Life Diel was born in Vienna, Austria, on 11 July 1893, to a teacher of German origin and an unknown man. He was orphaned at the age of 13 after spending 8 years in a religious orphanage, but was able to obtain his baccalauréat with the support of a benefactor. Diel did not pursue formal higher education, but instead became an actor, novelist, and poet before teaching himself philosophy. Inspired by the philosophers Plato, Kant and Spinoza, and also b...

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Matthew W. McKeon

1900 - Present (126 years)

Matthew W. McKeon is the chair of the philosophy department at Michigan State University and well known philosopher of logic. McKeon earned his Ph.D. in philosophy at The University of Connecticut in 1994. He teaches courses in Logic and Philosophy of Language.

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Valentin Alberti

Valentin Alberti

1635 - 1697 (62 years)

Valentin Alberti was a Lutheran, orthodox philosopher and theologian from Silesia and was the son of a preacher. He is known for defending Lutheran orthodoxy against the natural law views of Hugo Grotius, Samuel von Pufendorf and Christian Thomasius, and being an active polemicist against Roman Catholicism.

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Dora Carrington

Dora Carrington

1893 - 1932 (39 years)

Dora de Houghton Carrington , known generally as Carrington, was an English painter and decorative artist, remembered in part for her association with members of the Bloomsbury Group, especially the writer Lytton Strachey. From her time as an art student, she was known simply by her surname as she considered Dora to be "vulgar and sentimental". She was not well known as a painter during her lifetime, as she rarely exhibited and did not sign her work. She worked for a while at the Omega Workshops, and for the Hogarth Press, designing woodcuts.

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Harold H. Joachim

1868 - 1938 (70 years)

Harold Henry Joachim, FBA was a British idealist philosopher. A disciple of Francis Herbert Bradley, whose posthumous papers he edited, Joachim is now identified with the later days of the British idealist movement. He is generally credited with the definitive formulation of the coherence theory of truth, in his book The Nature of Truth . He was also a scholar of Aristotle and Spinoza.

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Isaac Albalag

1300 - 1300 (0 years)

Isaac Albalag was a Jewish philosopher of the second half of the 13th century. Biography According to Steinschneider , Albalag probably lived in northern Spain or southern France. Graetz makes him a native of southern Spain. His liberal views, especially his interpretations of the Biblical account of the Creation in accordance with the Aristotelian theory of the eternity of the world, stamped him in the eyes of many as a heretic.

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William Turner

1510 - 1568 (58 years)

William Turner was an English divine and reformer, a physician and a natural historian. He has been called "The father of English botany." He studied medicine in Italy, and was a friend of the great Swiss naturalist, Conrad Gessner. He was an early herbalist and ornithologist, and it is in these fields that the most interest lies today. He is known as being one of the first "parson-naturalists" in England.

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Friedrich Christian Laukhard

Friedrich Christian Laukhard

1757 - 1822 (65 years)

Friedrich Christian Laukhard was a German novelist, philosopher, historian and theologian. From 1783 to 1794 he volunteered in the Prussian army as a musketeer. During the War of the first coalition his regiment campaigned in Valmy. Laukhard's military diary is of great interest for historical research on the Prussian army and the French revolutionary wars. Due to his licentious and extrovert lifestyle, "Magister Laukhard" soon became a notorious figure.

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Hans Thoma

1839 - 1924 (85 years)

Hans Thoma was a German painter. Biography Hans Thoma was born on 2 October 1839 in Bernau in the Black Forest, Germany. He was the son of a miller and was trained in the basics of painting by a painter of clock faces. He entered the Karlsruhe Academy in 1859, where he studied under Johann Wilhelm Schirmer and Ludwig des Coudres – the latter of which had a major influence on his career. Thoma also studied under Hans Gude, but rebelled against Gude's realism. He subsequently studied and worked, with but indifferent success, in Düsseldorf, Paris, Italy, Munich and Frankfurt, until his reputatio...

#13686

Hayk Gyulikevkhyan

Hayk Gyulikevkhyan

1886 - 1951 (65 years)

Hayk Gyulikevkhyan was an Armenian literary critic and philosopher and Professor of Yerevan State University. He was one of the founders of Soviet Armenian literary criticism. Biography He studied at Leipzig and Zurich universities, then graduated from the department of philosophy of Heidelberg University. Gyulikevkhyan cooperated with Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg. For his political activities he was arrested in 1914. In 1920's he became the editor of "Kommunist" newspaper of Yerevan and worked in Alexandropol. Gyulikevkhyan was the pro-rector of Yerevan State University and director of Armenian SSR Marxism–Leninism Institute.

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Franco Burgersdijk

Franco Burgersdijk

1590 - 1635 (45 years)

Franco Petri Burgersdijk or Franciscus Burgersdicius was a Dutch logician. Life Franco Burgersdijk was born in De Lier, Defland in the year 1590 was a Dutch logician who worked as a professor of logic and moral philosophy and rector at Leiden University. Franco Burgersdijk's teaching helped raise the profile of logic and philosophy in Dutch universities. After growing up on a farm, Burgersdijk attended both the Latin School at Amersfoort and the Delft Gynasium . Shortly after, he decided to study theology at the University of Leiden. His growing interest in debate led him to become a mentee of Gisbertus Voetius, the vice principal of Staten Collegie.

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Sam Houston

1793 - 1863 (70 years)

Samuel Houston was an American general and statesman who played an important role in the Texas Revolution. He served as the first and third president of the Republic of Texas and was one of the first two individuals to represent Texas in the United States Senate. He also served as the sixth governor of Tennessee and the seventh governor of Texas, the only individual to be elected governor of two different states in the United States.

#13689

Aristotle of Cyrene

400 BC - 400 BC (0 years)

Aristotle of Cyrene was a Greek philosopher who may have belonged to the Cyrenaic school. He was a native of Cyrene, and a contemporary of Stilpo. He taught Cleitarchus and Simmias of Syracuse before they became pupils of Stilpo. It has generally been assumed that Aristotle was a member of the Cyrenaic school, but this assumption is somewhat doubtful. According to Diogenes Laërtius, he wrote a work on the art of poetry. The only aspect of his philosophical views which is known is a short piece of ethical advice preserved by Aelian: Aristoteles of Cyrene said that you should not accept a favor from anyone.

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Moncure D. Conway

Moncure D. Conway

1832 - 1907 (75 years)

Moncure Daniel Conway was an American abolitionist minister and radical writer. At various times Methodist, Unitarian, and a Freethinker, he descended from patriotic and patrician families of Virginia and Maryland but spent most of the final four decades of his life abroad in England and France, where he wrote biographies of Edmund Randolph, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Thomas Paine and his own autobiography. He led freethinkers in London's South Place Chapel, now Conway Hall.

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James Weldon Johnson

James Weldon Johnson

1871 - 1938 (67 years)

James Weldon Johnson was an American writer and civil rights activist. He was married to civil rights activist Grace Nail Johnson. Johnson was a leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People , where he started working in 1917. In 1920, he was chosen as executive secretary of the organization, effectively the operating officer. He served in that position from 1920 to 1930. Johnson established his reputation as a writer, and was known during the Harlem Renaissance for his poems, novel, and anthologies collecting both poems and spirituals of black culture. He wrote the...

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Alexander Nevsky

Alexander Nevsky

1220 - 1263 (43 years)

Alexander Yaroslavich Nevsky was Prince of Novgorod , Grand Prince of Kiev and Grand Prince of Vladimir . Commonly regarded as a key figure in medieval Russian history, Alexander was a grandson of Vsevolod the Big Nest and rose to legendary status on account of his military victories over Swedish invaders. He preserved separate statehood and Orthodoxy, agreeing to pay tribute to the powerful Golden Horde. Metropolitan Macarius of Moscow canonized Alexander Nevsky as a saint of the Russian Orthodox Church in 1547.

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Nicolae Bagdasar

Nicolae Bagdasar

1896 - 1971 (75 years)

Nicolae Bagdasar was a Romanian philosopher. Born to a peasant family north of Bârlad, he fought in World War I before attending the University of Bucharest and going on to earn a doctorate in Germany. He entered university teaching at Bucharest in 1928, but did not become a full professor until 1942, when he began teaching the history of philosophy and epistemology at Iași. Rising to Romanian Academy member the following year, he lost this distinction in 1948, under the nascent communist regime, and was removed from teaching in 1949. He spent the remainder of his career in a lower profile, undertaking research in various fields.

#13694

Philip Henry Gosse

Philip Henry Gosse

1810 - 1888 (78 years)

Philip Henry Gosse , known to his friends as Henry, was an English naturalist and populariser of natural science, an early improver of the seawater aquarium, and a painstaking innovator in the study of marine biology. Gosse created and stocked the first public aquarium at the London Zoo in 1853, and coined the term "aquarium" when he published the first manual, The Aquarium: An Unveiling of the Wonders of the Deep Sea, in 1854. His work was the catalyst for an aquarium craze in early Victorian England.

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Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi

1894 - 1972 (78 years)

Richard Nikolaus Eijiro, Count of Coudenhove-Kalergi , was an Austrian-Japanese politician, philosopher, and count of Coudenhove-Kalergi. A pioneer of European integration, he served as the founding president of the Paneuropean Union for 49 years. His parents were Heinrich von Coudenhove-Kalergi, an Austro-Hungarian diplomat, and Mitsuko Aoyama, the daughter of an oil merchant, antiques-dealer and major landowner in Tokyo. His childhood name in Japan was Eijiro Aoyama. Being a native Austrian-Hungarian citizen, he became a Czechoslovak citizen in 1919 and then took French citizenship from 1939...

#13696

Itsuo Tsuda

1914 - 1984 (70 years)

Itsuo Tsuda was a Japanese philosopher and a practitioner and teacher of aikido and Seitai. Tsuda was born in Japanese-ruled Korea. When he was 16 years old, he defied his father, who wished for his eldest son to remain home and manage his family's estate. He left his family home and begin wandering, searching for new philosophies that would free his mind.

#13697

Franz von Lenbach

Franz von Lenbach

1836 - 1904 (68 years)

Franz Seraph Lenbach, after 1882, Ritter von Lenbach , was a German painter known primarily for his portraits of prominent personalities from the nobility, the arts, and industry. Because of his standing in society, he was often referred to as the "Malerfürst" .

#13698

Gregorio Bermann

Gregorio Bermann

1894 - 1972 (78 years)

Gregorio Bermann was an Argentine psychiatrist, philosopher, activist, author, and humanist. Born in Buenos Aires to Polish Jewish immigrants, he was the youngest of ten siblings, eight of which had been Born in Poland. He was a leader in the student movement Argentine University Federation in Cordoba during the first half of the 20th century.

#13699

Vergilius Ferm

1896 - 1974 (78 years)

Vergilius Ture Anselm Ferm was the Compton Professor of Philosophy at the College of Wooster. Selected published works American theology "Theology and Religious Experience" in Nature of Religious Experience: Essays in Honor of Douglas Clyde Macintosh In Transition encyclopedia of religion Can We Believe? in the twentieth century Religions: A Symposium history of philosophical systems religions Protestant dictionary Protestant credo dictionary of pastoral psychology history of Protestantism Brief Dictionary of American Superstitions of Protestantism an expansive Christian theology schools of...

#13700

Philip H. Rhinelander

1908 - 1987 (79 years)

Philip H. Rhinelander , was an American philosopher, professor, and former dean of the Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences. Biography Rhinelander was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on January 1, 1908. He was educated at Harvard, where he obtained the A.B. summa cum laude in Classics and Philosophy in 1929, studying with the philosopher Alfred North Whitehead. Rhinelander then entered the Harvard Law School, attaining the LLB in 1932. The same year, he married his wife of 55 years, Virginia, after which he practiced law for eight years, doing appellate trial work at the Boston law firm of Choate, Hall & Stewart.

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