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#19251

Maite Carranza

#153206

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Maite Carranza Gil-Dolz del Castellar is a Spanish writer and educator, mainly writing in Catalan. She is a recipient of the Premio Crítica Serra d'Or, TP de Oro award, Premio Ondas award, and the Spanish National Prize for Children's and Juvenile Literature.

#19252

Øyvind S. Bruland

#116238

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Øyvind Sverre Bruland is a professor of Clinical Oncology and faculty of Medicine at the University of Oslo. Bruland holds a B.Sc., M.D and Ph.D. from the University of Oslo, Norway. His research includes: primary bone and soft tissue cancers and skeletal metastases from prostate cancer and breast cancer; targeted radionuclide therapy, for instance the clinical development of Alpharadin, based on Radium-223; the tumor biology and prognostic impact of micro-metastases in bone-marrow aspirates on patients with primary bone cancer ; external beam radiotherapy; and the radiotherapy of skeletal m...

#19253

Ludvig Sollid

#182017

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Ludvig M. Sollid is a Norwegian physician-scientist whose laboratory has made discoveries in the pathogenesis of HLA associated human disorders, most notably celiac disease. He is currently a Professor of Medicine at the University of Oslo and a Senior Consultant at Oslo University Hospital.

#19254

Catius

#188912

Overall Influence

Catius was an Epicurean philosopher, identified ethnically as an Insubrian Celt from Gallia Transpadana. Epicurean works by Amafinius, Rabirius, and Catius were the earliest philosophical treatises written in Latin. Catius composed a treatise in four books on the physical world and on the highest good . Cicero credits him, along with the lesser prose stylist Amafinius, with writing accessible texts that popularized Epicurean philosophy among the plebs, or common people.

#19255

Patro the Epicurean

#192435

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Patro was an Epicurean philosopher. He lived for some time in Rome, where he became acquainted, among others, with Cicero, and with the family of Gaius Memmius. At this point, or subsequently, he also gained the friendship of Atticus. From Rome he either removed or returned to Athens, and there succeeded Phaedrus as head of the Epicurean school, c. 70 BC. Memmius had, while in Athens, procured permission from the Areopagus court to pull down an old wall belonging to the property left by Epicurus for the use of his school. This was regarded by Patro as a sort of desecration, and he accordingly...

#19256

Marcus Vigellius

#188765

Overall Influence

Marcus Vigellius was a Stoic philosopher. He was a friend and pupil of Panaetius, whom he also lived with. He is noted by Cicero in De Oratore to have also been a friend of Lucius Licinius Crassus, the greatest Roman orator prior to Cicero. All other information has been lost.

#19257

Apollonides

50 BC - Present (2076 years)

Apollonides was a Stoic philosopher. He was a friend and companion of Cato the Younger. The sole record of Apollonides is within Plutarch's account of Cato the Younger in Parallel Lives. From this account, there is evidence that after the Battle of Thapsus, Apollonides was present with Cato at Utica. During this time, Cato ordered a young man named Statyllius to leave Utica. When Statyllius refused, Cato appointed Apollonides and Demetrius the Peripatetic to "reduce this man's swollen pride and restore him to conformity with his best interests." When Cato later inquired if Statyllius was sen...

#19258

Nymphidianus of Smyrna

350 - Present (1676 years)

Nymphidianus of Smyrna, was a Neoplatonist and sophist who lived in the time of the emperor Julian . He was the brother of Maximus. Julian, who was greatly attached to Maximus, made Nymphidianus his interpreter and Greek secretary, though he was more fit to write declamations and disputations than letters. Eunapius thought that Nymphidianus was a worthy sophist even though he had not been educated at Athens . Nymphidianus survived his brother Maximus, and died at an advanced age.

#19259

Elias Tillandz

1640 - 1693 (53 years)

Elias Tillandz was a Swedish-born doctor and botanist who worked in Finland. He was the professor of medicine at the Academy of Turku. He wrote the country's first botanical work, the Catalogus Plantarum, which was first published in 1673. As a doctor he also prepared medicines for his patients by using his extensive knowledge of plants.

#19260

Theagenes of Patras

#174323

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Theagenes of Patras, was a Cynic philosopher and close friend of Peregrinus Proteus. He is known principally as a character who appears in Lucian's The Death of Peregrinus , where he is introduced as praising Peregrinus' desire to kill himself by self-immolation: Proteus," he cried, "Proteus vain-glorious? Who dares name the word? Earth! Sun! Seas! Rivers! God of our fathers, Heracles! Was it for this that he suffered bondage in Syria? that he forgave his country a debt of a million odd? that he was cast out of Rome, — he whose brilliance exceeds the Sun, fit rival of the Lord of Olympus? 'Ti...

#19261

Xun Xu

201 - 289 (88 years)

Xun Xu , courtesy name Gongzeng, was a Chinese musician, painter, politician, and writer who lived during the late Three Kingdoms period and early Jin dynasty of China. Born in the influential Xun family, he was a great-grandson of Xun Shuang and a distant maternal relative of Zhong Yao's family . He served as an official in the state of Cao Wei in the late Three Kingdoms era before serving under the Jin dynasty.

#19262

Alexander Peloplaton

#85961

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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.

#19263

Menedemus of Pyrrha

350 BC - Present (2376 years)

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#19264

Apollodorus the Epicurean

150 BC - 150 BC (0 years)

Apollodorus was an Epicurean philosopher, and head of the Epicurean school in Athens. According to Diogenes Laërtius, he was surnamed Tyrant of the Garden from his exercising a kind of tyranny or supremacy in the garden or school of Epicurus. He was the teacher of Zeno of Sidon, who succeeded him as the head of the school, about 100 BC. He is said to have written upwards of 400 books, but they have all perished.

#19265

Jan Šindel

1375 - 1456 (81 years)

Jan Šindel , also known as Jan Ondřejův , was a Czech medieval scientist and Catholic priest. He was a professor at Charles University in Prague and became the rector of the university in 1410. He lectured on mathematics and astronomy and was also a personal astrologer and physician of kings Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia and his brother Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund.

#19266

Sandon

#142150

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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.

#19267

Cronius the Pythagorean

200 - 200 (0 years)

Cronius was a celebrated Neopythagorean philosopher. He was probably a contemporary of Numenius of Apamea, who lived in the 2nd century, and he is often spoken of along with him. Nemesius mentions a work of his On Reincarnation, , and Origen is said to have diligently studied the works of Cronius. Porphyry also states that he endeavoured to explain the fables of the Homeric poems in a philosophical manner. This is all we know about Cronius, although he appears to have been very distinguished among the Neopythagoreans.

#19268

Helvidius Priscus

50 - 75 (25 years)

Helvidius Priscus, Stoic philosopher and statesman, lived during the reigns of Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitellius and Vespasian. Biography Helvidius came from town of Cluviae, and his father had been the senior centurion of a legion. According to Tacitus, from early youth he devoted his brilliant intellect to academic studies, not in order to disguise ease and idleness under a pretentious name, but to arm himself more stoutly against the unpredictable fluctuations of fortune of a public career. As citizen, senator, husband, son-in-law and friend, he met the varied obligations of life in a consiste...

#19269

Batis of Lampsacus

350 BC - 210 BC (140 years)

Batis of Lampsacus, was a student of Epicurus at Lampsacus in the early 3rd century BC. According to Diogenes Laertius, she was the sister of Metrodorus and wife of Idomeneus. Seneca the Younger recounts that when Batis' son died, Metrodorus wrote a letter to his sister offering comfort, telling her that "all the Good of mortals is mortal," and "that there is a certain pleasure akin to sadness, and that one should give chase thereto at such times as these." Fragments of a letter from Epicurus to Batis on the death of Metrodorus in 277 BC have also been discovered among the papyri at Herculaneum.

#19270

Paconius Agrippinus

#154928

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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.

#19271

Aristus of Ascalon

50 BC - 50 BC (0 years)

Aristus was a philosopher of ancient Greece from Ashkelon, aligned with the "Academic" school of philosophy, also known as Platonism. He was the pupil of and later successor to his brother, the more famous and renowned Academic philosopher Antiochus of Ascalon, and was generally considered to be the inferior philosopher.

#19272

Polystratus the Epicurean

Polystratus ; died 219/18 BCEscholarch Fragments of two of his works survive among the scrolls found at the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum. The first is On Irrational Contempt, which is a polemic directed "against those who irrationally despise popular beliefs." His opponents in the work may be the Cynics or the Skeptics. The second preserved work is entitled On Philosophy, of which only broken fragments can be deciphered.

#19273

Philonides of Laodicea

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200 BC - 130 BC (70 years)

Philonides of Laodicea in Syria, was an Epicurean philosopher and mathematician who lived in the Seleucid court during the reigns of Antiochus IV Epiphanes and Demetrius I Soter. He is known principally from a Life of Philonides, which was discovered among the charred papyrus scrolls at the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum. Philonides was born into a family with good connections with the Seleucid court. He is said to have been taught by Eudemus and Dionysodorus the mathematician. Philonides attempted to convert Antiochus IV Epiphanes to Epicureanism, and later instructed his nephew, Demetrius I Soter, in philosophy.

#19274

Asclepiodotus

100 BC - Present (2126 years)

Asclepiodotus Tacticus , also known as Asclepiodotus, was a Greek writer and philosopher known for his treatise on military tactics. Life Little is known about the life of Asclepiodiotus. The Greek manuscripts read “ Asclepiodotus the Philosopher” and he has been identified with the Asclepiodotus mentioned by Seneca in his Naturales quaestiones. Seneca quotes Asclepiodotus on matters of natural history and also reports that he was a student of Posidonius, who, as mentioned by Aelianus Tacticus, also wrote a treatise on military tactics. If Asclepiodotus was indeed the student of Posidonius, h...

#19275

Phaenias of Eresus

Phaenias of Eresus

400 BC - 360 BC (40 years)

Phaenias of Eresus was a Greek philosopher from Lesbos, important as an immediate follower of and commentator on Aristotle. He came to Athens about 332 BCE, and joined his compatriot, Theophrastus, in the Peripatetic school. His writings on logic and science appear to have been commentaries or supplements to the works of Aristotle and Theophrastus. He also wrote extensively on history. His works have only survived in fragments quoted by other authors.

#19276

Antipater of Cyrene

400 BC - 360 BC (40 years)

Antipater of Cyrene was one of the disciples of the philosopher Aristippus, the founder of the Cyrenaic school of philosophy. He had a pupil called Epitimedes of Cyrene. According to Cicero, he was blind, and when some women bewailed the fact, he replied, "What do you mean? Do you think the night can furnish no pleasure?"

#19277

Ellopion of Peparethus

#192440

Overall Influence

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.

#19278

Philiscus of Aegina

350 BC - 400 BC (-50 years)

Philiscus of Aegina was a Cynic philosopher from Aegina, who lived in the latter half of the 4th century BC. He was the son of Onesicritus who sent Philiscus and his younger brother, Androsthenes, to Athens where they were so charmed by the philosophy of Diogenes of Sinope that Onesicritus also came to Athens and became his disciple. According to Hermippus of Smyrna, Philiscus was the pupil of Stilpo. He is also described as an associate of Phocion. The Suda claims that he was a teacher of Alexander the Great, but no other ancient writer mentions this. Aelian, though, has preserved a short ex...

#19279

Robert Saitschick

1868 - 1965 (97 years)

Robert Saitschick or Robert Saitschik was a Swiss philosopher. He grew up in Warsaw, where his father Morduch Zaitchik became a merchant. After graduating from the 8th grade of the 5th Warsaw gymnasium he became a member of a revolutionary circle, which led to a legal action against him in 1887 over spreading of a revolutionary poem. He left Warsaw in late December of that year and moved to Vienna.

#19280

Raymond Polin

#67478

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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

#19281

Richard Wilton

Richard Wilton was an English scholastic philosopher. Works His works included:a commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard;a treatise in five books against the heresies of his own age;commentaries on the Book of Genesis and the prophecies of Jeremiah;three books of quodlibets;a treatise on the immortality of the soul;four books on Divine grace.

#19282

R. De Staningtona

#192441

Overall Influence

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.

#19283

Theodorus of Asine

275 - 360 (85 years)

Theodorus of Asine was a Neoplatonist philosopher, and a native of one of the towns which bore the name of Asine, probably Asine in Laconia. He was a disciple of Iamblichus, and one of the most eminent of the Neoplatonists. Proclus repeatedly mentions him in his commentaries on Plato, and frequently adds to his name some laudatory epithet,"the great," "the admirable," "the noble." He wrote a work on the soul, now lost. It is cited by Nemesius of Emesa in his De Natura Hominis.

#19284

Theodor Sternberg

1878 - 1950 (72 years)

Theodor Hermann Sternberg was a German legal philosopher serving as a foreign advisor in Meiji period Japan, where he was an important contributor to the development of civil law in Japan. Biography Born in Berlin, Sternberg served as an instructor at Tokyo Imperial University from 1913 to 1918. He also lectured on occasion at Meiji University, and other major Japanese universities, speaking on civil law, criminal law and jurisprudence.

#19285

Rafe Champion

#95140

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

#19286

Timolaus of Cyzicus

Timolaus of Cyzicus was one of Plato's students. Cyzicus is an ancient city of Mysia, located in the northwest of Asia Minor.

#19287

Timycha

400 BC - 400 BC (0 years)

Timycha of Sparta , was a Pythagorean philosopher mentioned by Iamblichus in his Life of Pythagoras: The temperance also of those men, and how Pythagoras taught this virtue, may be learnt from what Hippobotus and Neanthes narrate of Myllias and Timycha who were Pythagoreans. For they say that Dionysius the tyrant could not obtain the friendship of any one of the Pythagoreans, though he did every thing to accomplish his purpose; for they had observed, and carefully avoided his monarchical disposition. He sent therefore to the Pythagoreans, a troop of thirty soldiers, under the command of Eurym...

#19288

Yves Brunsvick

#176308

Overall Influence

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.

#19289

Rod L. Evans

#107417

Overall Influence

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.

#19290

Zenodotus

500 - Present (1526 years)

Zenodotus was a Neoplatonist philosopher who lived and taught in Athens. He was described as "the darling of Proclus." Zenodotus served under Marinus of Neapolis when Marinus succeeded Proclus as the head of the school . He was a teacher of Damascius when he came to Athens to learn philosophy . Whereas Marinus taught mathematics and scientific courses to Damascius, Zenodotus taught the more conventional philosophy courses. He was an important philosopher in Athens during the time when Marinus and Hegias were contending for the leadership of the school, but he seems to have been overlooked a...

#19291

Ralph of Longchamp

1155 - 1215 (60 years)

Ralph of Longchamp was a scholastic philosopher of the 13th century, known also as a physician and natural philosopher. He taught at Oxford and possibly at Paris. He was a pupil of Alain of Lille and wrote a commentary on Alain's poem Anticlaudianus, in about 1212.

#19292

Judah ben Solomon Canpanton

#192449

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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.

#19293

Nicolas Antoine Boulanger

1722 - 1759 (37 years)

Nicolas Antoine Boulanger was a French philosopher and man of letters during the Age of Enlightenment. Biography Born the son of a paper merchant in Paris, Boulanger studied first mathematics, and later ancient languages. He composed several philosophical works in which he sought to come up with naturalistic explanations for superstitions and religious practices, all of which were published posthumously. His major works were Research into the Origins of Oriental Despotism and Antiquity Unveiled . Boulanger's collected works were published in 1792.

#19294

Franz Gerhard Wegeler

Franz Gerhard Wegeler

1765 - 1848 (83 years)

Franz Gerhard Wegeler was a German physician from Bonn, who, in his youth, was a close friend of composer Ludwig van Beethoven. He was the father of historian Julius Stephan Wegeler . Wegeler studied medicine at the Universities of Bonn and Vienna. After completing his studies in Austria, he returned to Bonn, where he became a tenured professor of legal medicine and obstetrics in 1789. In 1794, he fled Bonn during the French Revolutionary Wars, returning to Vienna, where he renewed his friendship with Beethoven. After spending two years in Vienna, he again returned to Bonn as an instructor an...

#19295

Václav Chaloupecký

1882 - 1951 (69 years)

Václav Chaloupecký was a Czech historian, a student of prominent Czech historian Josef Pekař and the main representative of historians in mid-war Slovakia. Life He had studied at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague . Then he had worked as an archivist and librarian in Roudnice nad Labem . In 1919, he became a state inspector of Slovak archives and libraries . In the same time, he was also a docent and professor of the Czechoslovak history at Comenius University. He held several academic positions e.g. dean and vice-dean of the Faculty of Arts, rector and vice-rector of the university.

#19296

Otto Klemm

1884 - 1939 (55 years)

Gustav Otto Klemm was a German psychologist and philosopher, as well as the first chair as Professor of Applied Psychology at the University of Leipzig. While his psychological work is largely irrelevant today, Klemm is one of the best-known representatives of the Leipzig School of Gestalt psychology. His studies on human motor, which were carried out under his guidance, had scientific validity, both in terms of their findings as well as the careful methodology. He is next to Nikolai Alexandrovich Bernstein among the first researchers who have studied the phenomenon of variability of partial ...

#19297

Pedro Jimeno

1515 - 1551 (36 years)

Pedro Jimeno was a Valencian anatomist. Jimeno was born around 1515 in Valencia or in Onda. He first studied the arts at the University of Valencia and then medicine under Andreas Vesalius at the University of Padua. Upon his return to Valencia, he succeeded Pedro Jaime Esteve in the chair of anatomy in 1547. In 1549, he became chair of practical medicine . In 1550, transferred to the University of Alcalá, where he taught until his death shortly after.

#19298

Ibraghim Muminov

Ibraghim Muminov

1908 - 1974 (66 years)

#19299

Hjalmar Heiberg

Hjalmar Heiberg

1837 - 1897 (60 years)

Hjalmar Heiberg was a Norwegian physician and a professor at the University of Oslo. Biography He was born in Christiania , Norway. He was the son of physician Christen Heiberg. His father was professor in surgery and general practitioner at the National Hospital . He received his cand.med. in 1862. Heiberg was Professor of Pathological Anatomy at the University of Christiania and from 1859 worked was an assistant to Emanuel Winge at the National Hospital as a pathologist and bacteriologist researcher.

#19300

Takeya Hiroshi

1875 - 1941 (66 years)

Takeya Hiroshi was a professor and physician in Japan. He was the second professor of internal medicine section of Kyushu University. In 1923, he firstly introduced the insulin suppression in diabetical regimenn in Japan.

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