Curated category
Christian humanists
- C. S. LewisClive Staples Lewis was born on the 29th of November 1898 in Belfast, Ulster. His father Albert James Lewis worked as a solicitor while his mother Florence…
- John MiltonJohn Milton was born on the 9th of December 1608 in Bread Street, London. His father, also named John Milton, had moved to London around 1583 after being…
- John WesleyOn the 9th of February 1709, a fire broke out in the rectory at Epworth. John Wesley was five years old when flames consumed the roof and threatened to…
- Thomas MoreThomas More entered the world on the 7th of February 1478 within the City of London. His father Sir John More was a successful lawyer who later became a…
- John WycliffeJohn Wycliffe was born in the village of Hipswell, near Richmond in the North Riding of Yorkshire, England. Records suggest he was born in the mid-1320s…
- Aleksandr SolzhenitsynAleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was born on the 11th of December 1918 in Kislovodsk. His father Isaakiy Semyonovich Solzhenitsyn died in a hunting accident…
- ErasmusDesiderius Erasmus was born in Rotterdam on the 27th or the 28th of October, likely around 1466. His parents could not legally marry because his father…
- PetrarchFrancesco di Petracco entered the world on the 20th of July 1304 in the Tuscan city of Arezzo. His father Ser Petracco worked as a notary, and his mother was…
- Huldrych ZwingliHuldrych Zwingli was born on the 1st of January 1484 in Wildhaus, a village nestled deep within the Toggenburg valley of Switzerland.
- Michel de MontaigneMichel Eyquem, Lord of Montaigne, entered the world on the 28th of February 1533 at his family estate in Guyenne. His father Pierre had purchased the land in…
- William TyndaleWilliam Tyndale stood before a dinner party in the early 1520s and declared that if God spared his life, he would ensure the boy who drove the plow knew more…
- Blaise PascalBlaise Pascal was born on the 19th of June 1623 in Clermont-Ferrand, France. His mother Antoinette Begon died when he was three years old.
- Søren KierkegaardSøren Aabye Kierkegaard was born on the 5th of May 1813 in Copenhagen. He entered the world as the youngest of seven children to Michael Pedersen Kierkegaard…
- Lorenzo VallaLorenzo Valla entered the world in Rome around 1407. His father Luciave della Valla worked as a lawyer within the Papal Curia.
- Giovanni Pico della MirandolaGiovanni Pico della Mirandola entered the world on the 24th of February 1463 within the Castle of Mirandola, a small autonomous county in Emilia near Modena.