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Philosophers of literature
- VoltaireFrançois-Marie Arouet was born in Paris on the 21st of November 1694. He entered the world as the youngest child of a minor treasury official and a woman…
- George OrwellEric Arthur Blair arrived in the world on the 25th of June 1903 within a house in Motihari, Bengal Presidency. His family belonged to what he called the…
- Immanuel KantImmanuel Kant was born on the 22nd of April 1724 in Königsberg, Prussia. His father Johann Georg worked as a harness maker from Memel while his mother Anna…
- AristotleAristotle was born in 384 BC in the city of Stagira, located about 55 kilometers east of modern-day Thessaloniki. His father Nicomachus served as the…
- Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe was born on the 28th of August 1749 in a large house on Großer Hirschgraben in Frankfurt. His father, Johann Caspar Goethe, had…
- Kurt VonnegutKurt Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis on the 11th of November 1922. He descended from a long line of German Americans whose family fortune rested on the…
- Denis DiderotDenis Diderot was born on the 5th of October 1713 in the city of Langres. His father Didier worked as a cutler and his mother Angélique Vigneron supported…
- Friedrich SchillerOn the 10th of November 1759, a boy named Friedrich Schiller was born in Marbach. He grew up as the only son of Johann Kaspar Schiller and Elisabetha…
- Jean-Jacques RousseauJean-Jacques Rousseau was born on the 28th of June 1712 in the Republic of Geneva. His mother Suzanne Bernard died nine days after his birth from puerperal…
- Jorge Luis BorgesJorge Luis Borges was born on the 24th of August 1899 in Palermo, a poor neighborhood of Buenos Aires. His family lived in a large house filled with an…
- Leo TolstoyCount Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy entered the world at Yasnaya Polyana, a family estate located southwest of Tula and south of Moscow.
- Victor HugoVictor-Marie Hugo was born on the 26th of February 1802 in Besançon, a city in eastern France. His father Joseph Léopold Sigisbert Hugo served as a general…
- Michel FoucaultPaul-Michel Foucault was born on the 15th of October 1926 in the city of Poitiers, west-central France. He entered a prosperous, socially conservative family…
- Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge was born on the 21st of October 1772 in Ottery St Mary, a small town in Devon. His father served as the vicar of the local church and…
- Philip K. DickPhilip Kindred Dick was born on the 16th of December 1928 in Chicago, Illinois. He arrived six weeks prematurely alongside his twin sister Jane Charlotte…
- Aldous HuxleyThe year 1894 marked the birth of Aldous Leonard Huxley in Godalming, Surrey. He entered a world already defined by scientific brilliance and literary fame.
- AverroesMuhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Rushd entered the world on the 14th of April 1126 in the city of Córdoba. His family held a position of immense public…
- Jacques LacanJacques Marie Émile Lacan was born on the 13th of April 1901 in Paris. His father worked as a successful soap and oils salesman while his mother remained an…
- Hubert DreyfusHubert Lederer Dreyfus entered the world on the 15th of October 1929 in Terre Haute, Indiana. His parents were Stanley S. and Irene (Lederer) Dreyfus.
- Vladimir Solovyov (philosopher)Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov was born in Moscow during the year 1853. He entered the Imperial Moscow University to study from 1869 until 1873.