Thales Of Miletus biography Thales of Miletus, as his name suggests and in the style of the time, was born in Miletus, which today is what...
Parmenides biography Parmenides of Elea (530 BC – 470 BC) philosopher and founder of ontology. He was born in the city of Elea, a southern colony...
Montesquieu biography Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu, generally referred to as simply Montesquieu (January 18, 1689) was a philosopher, writer, judge,...
Hippocrates biography Hippocrates of Kos (460 BC – 370 BC) doctor. He was born on the island of Kos, Ancient Greece. It is said that Hippocrates...
Gottfried Leibniz biography Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, better known as Gottfried Leibniz (July 1, 1646 – November 14, 1716), rationalist philosopher, theologian, logician, mathematician, jurist, librarian and...
Friedrich Nietzsche biography Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 – August 25, 1900) philosopher, poet, musician, and philologist. He was born in Röcken, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Friedrich...
Epicurus biography Epicurus (341 b.C. – 270 b.C.), philosopher. He was born on the island of Samos in the bosom of an Athenian family. His father,...
Empedocles biography Empédocles of Agrigento (484 b.C. – 424 b.C.) philosopher and poet. He was born in Agrigento, Sicily. He came from a well-to-do family, so...
Bruce Lee biography The martial artist, actor, philosopher, and writer Lee Jun-Fan, widely known by the name of Bruce Lee, was born on November 27, 1940,...
Anaximenes biography He was born in Miletus, in 590 b.C. According to Theophrastus, he was a disciple of Anaximander; and, in turn, Anaximander was a disciple...