- Stephen King
Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of over 200 stories including over 50 bestselling horror and fantasy novels. King was the 2003 recipient of The National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. King evinces a thorough knowledge of the horror genre, as shown in his nonfiction book "Danse Macabre", which chronicles several decades of notable works in both literature and cinema. - Robin Furth
Robin Furth is the personal research assistant to Stephen King and the author of Stephen King's "The Dark Tower: A Complete Concordance", which was published by Scribner on December 5 2006. It is a compilation of her two previous encyclopedic books dealing with King's magnum opus, "The Dark Tower: A Concordance, volume I" - which explores the first four books in King's series - and "A Concordance II", … - Baruch Spinoza
Baruch de Spinoza (lived November 24, 1632 – February 21, 1677) was a Dutch philosopher of Portuguese Jewish origin. Revealing considerable scientific aptitude, the breadth and importance of Spinoza's work was not fully realized until years after his death. Today, he is considered one of the great rationalists of 17th-century philosophy, laying the groundwork for the 18th century Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism. - Dante Alighieri
Durante degli Alighieri, better known as Dante Alighieri or simply Dante, (May 14/June 13 1265 - September 13/14, 1321) was an Italian poet from Florence. His central work, the "Commedia" ("The Divine Comedy"), is considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature. In Italian he is known as "the Supreme Poet" ("il Sommo Poeta"). - Satyajit Ray
Satyajit Ray was an Indian filmmaker regarded as one of the greatest film directors of the twentieth century. Born in the city of Kolkata (then Calcutta) into a Bengali family prominent in the world of arts and letters, Ray studied at Presidency College and at the Visva-Bharati University, at the poet Rabindranath Tagore's Santiniketan. - Hans-Georg Gadamer
Hans-Georg Gadamer (February 11, 1900 - March 13, 2002) was a German philosopher best known for his 1960 magnum opus, "Truth and Method" ("Wahrheit und Methode"). - Arthur Koestler
Arthur Koestler (September 5, 1905, Budapest - March 3, 1983, London) was a Hungarian polymath who became a naturalized British subject. He wrote journalism, novels, social philosophy, and books on scientific subjects. In 1931, he joined the Communist Party of Germany, but left the party seven years later, after emigrating to the United Kingdom. By the late 1940s, he was one of the most recognized and outspoken British anti-communists, … - Manly Palmer Hall
Manly Palmer Hall (March 18, 1901 - August 29, 1990) was a Canadian-born author and mystic. He is perhaps most famous for his work "The Secret Teachings of All Ages: An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy", which is widely regarded as his magnum opus, and which he published at the age of 25 (or 27, 1928) He has been widely recognized as a leading scholar in the fields of religion, mythology, mysticism, … - Carl Friedrich Gauss
Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss or Gauß (30 April 1777 - 23 February 1855) was a German mathematician and scientist of profound genius who contributed significantly to many fields, including number theory, analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, electrostatics, astronomy, and optics. Sometimes known as "the prince of mathematicians" and "greatest mathematician since antiquity", … - Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk
Eugen Ritter von Böhm-Bawerk was an Austrian economist who made important contributions to the development of Austrian economics. Trained in the University of Vienna as a lawyer where he read Carl Menger's "Principles of Economics." Though he never studied under Menger, he quickly became an adherent of his theories. - Jaroslav Pelikan
Jaroslav Jan Pelikan was one of the world's leading scholars in the history of Christianity and medieval intellectual history. Pelikan was born in Akron, Ohio to a Slovak father and a Serbian mother. His father was a Lutheran pastor and his paternal grandfather a bishop of the Slovak Lutheran Church in America. Before he turned three, his mother had taught him to use the typewriter, as he could not yet hold a pen. - Jonathan Larson
Jonathan Larson was an American composer and playwright who lived in New York City and authored musicals, including "Rent" and "Tick, Tick... BOOM!". These musicals tackle serious issues such as multiculturalism, addiction, homophobia, and the AIDS epidemic. His artistic vision and goal was to fuse Generation X and the MTV Generation with the world of musical theatre in his work. This mission was somewhat accomplished by his magnum opus, "Rent", … - Yosef Karo
Yosef Caro (sometimes Joseph Caro was one of the most significant leaders in Rabbinic Judaism and the author of the Shulchan Arukh, an authoritative work on Halakhah (Jewish law). Caro was never celebrated as an individual, but as a "meḥabber" (author). Therefore, the name Yosef Caro was only significant in relation to his works. Throughout Jewish history, there has been a tendency to remember figures by their magnum opus. - Yehuda Ashlag
Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag or Yehuda Leib Ha-Levi Ashlag also known as the Baal Ha-Sulam, (lit. "Master of the Ladder") - referring to his magnum opus, the Sulam - was an orthodox rabbi born in Warsaw, Congress Poland, Russian Empire), to a family of scholars connected to the Hasidic courts of Porisov and Belz. Rabbi Ashlag lived in Jerusalem from 1922 until his death in 1954 and is considered by many to be a great kabbalist. - Mika Waltari
Mika Toimi Waltari (September 19, 1908 – August 26, 1979) was a Finnish historical novelist, best known for his magnum opus "The Egyptian" ("Sinuhe egyptiläinen" in Finnish) - Heinrich Graetz
Heinrich Graetz was amongst the first historians to write a comprehensive history of the Jewish people from a Jewish perspective. Born Tzvi Hirsh Graetz to a butcher family in Książ-Wielkopolski (Poznań) in Germany (now in Poland), he obtained his doctorate from the University of Jena. After 1845 was principal of the Jewish Orthodox school of the Breslau community, and later taught history at the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau (now Wrocław, Poland). - Firaq Gorakhpuri
Raghupati Sahay 'Firaq' Gorakhpuri (1896-1982) was one of the most noted contemporary Urdu poets. He was born in Gorakhpur in a Kayastha family. After a brilliant academic career he was co-opted into the Provincial Civil Service but resigned and joined Allahabad University as a lecturer in English. It was here he wrote most of his Urdu poetry and his magnum opus Gul-e-Naghma which fetched him the Jnanpith Award. - Legendary Stardust Cowboy
The Legendary Stardust Cowboy, born Norman Carl Odam on October 10, 1947 in Lubbock,Texas, was an incoherent rock and roll performer who invented an early example of the genre that came to be known as psychobilly in the 1960s. While often considered a novelty artist, he considers himself a serious performer. He recorded his only "hit," the song "Paralyzed", in 1968, in what was, apparently, a moment of spare time in a recording studio in Texas. - David Bentley Hart
David Bentley Hart is an Eastern Orthodox theologian, philosopher, writer, and cultural commentator. He has taught at the University of Virginia, the University of St. Thomas (Minnesota), Duke Divinity School, and Loyola College in Maryland. He currently holds a one-year appointment as the Robert J. Randall Chair at Providence College. His work exhibits an enormous knowledge of the Western philosophical tradition, from classical antiquity to postmodernity, … - Piotr Rubik
Piotr Rubik (born 3rd September 1968 in Warsaw) is a Polish composer of music for orchestra, films and theatre. He learned to play the cello from the age of 7, went on to a musical secondary school, and then studied at the Frederic Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw. Later he became a member of the world-class orchestra Jeunesses Musicales. His magnum opus to date is probably the work "Tu es Petrus", which he dedicated to Pope John Paul II. - Anton Bergmann
Anton Bergmann (Lier, 29 June, 1835-Lier, 21 January, 1874) was a Belgian writer and a liberal Flemish activist. Already during his youth he was fond of Dutch literature, and together with Julius Vuylsteke, he was a member of "T Zal wel gaan", a Flemish cultural and liberal organization. After he graduated from humaniora (E: highschool), he went to the University of Ghent, where he obtained a Bachelor degree in literature, law and notary. - Chaim Halberstam
Rabbi Chaim Halberstam of Sanz (1793-1876) (Hebrew: חיים הלברשטאם מצאנז), known as the "Divrei Chaim" after his magnum opus on halakha, was a famous Hasidic rebbe and the founder of the Sanz Hasidic dynasty. He was a pupil of Rabbi Moshe Yehoshua Heshl Orenstein and the Rebbe, Rabbi Naftali Zvi of Ropshitz. His first rabbinical position was in Rudnik. In 1830 he was appointed as the town rabbi of Sanz, … - Hamid Al-Din Al-Kirmani
Hamid al–Din Abu’l–Hasan Ahmad b. ‘Abdallah al–Kirmani was a Persian Isma'ili scholar who served as a "da'i", theologian and philosopher under the Fatimid caliph-imam al-Hakim bi Amr Allah. He was called upon to refute the dissident "da'i"s, who by proclaiming al-Hakim's divinity had initiated the Druze movement. His prominent works are: * "Rahat al-‘aql" (Peace of Mind, or Comfort of Reason), … - Claudio Magris
Claudio Magris ? Claudio Magris was born in Trieste (Italy) in 1939. He left his native Trieste at the age of eighteen to study at the University of Turin, where he specialised in Germanic Literature. He is now professor of this subject at the University of Trieste. He has published important studies on the relationship between Italian and Germanic cultures and on the importance of central Europe’s cultural milieu, i.e. on German predominance over central European culture. - John Duigan
John Lawless Duigan, (born June 19, 1949 in Hampshire, England) is a film director. Duigan emigrated to Australia in 1961, having been born to an Australian father. He is related to many Australian performers, being the brother of Virginia Duigan (wife of Bruce Beresford) and uncle of Trilby Beresford. Duigan directed 23 films, including "Romero", "The Parole Officer", "Sirens", and "Head in the Clouds". - Harald Sverdrup
Harald Ulrik Sverdrup (November 15, 1888 - August 21, 1957) was a Norwegian oceanographer and meteorologist who made a number of important theoretical discoveries in these fields. Having first worked in Bergen and Leipzig he was involved in the North Polar expedition of Roald Amundsen between 1917 and 1925, before taking the chair in meteorology at Bergen, where his primary interest slowly became oceanography. - John Richard Green
John Richard Green was an English historian. Born the son of a tradesman in Oxford, where he was educated, first at Magdalen College School, and then at Jesus College. He entered the Church, and served various cures in London, under a constant strain caused by delicate health. Always an enthusiastic student of history, the little leisure time he had was devoted to research. In 1869 he finally gave up his work as a clergyman, and was appointed librarian at Lambeth. - Christian David Ginsburg
Christian David Ginsburg (1831-1914) was a prominent Bible scholar and student of the masoretic tradition in Judaism. He was born to a Jewish family in Warsaw on 25 December 1831, converting to Christianity in his teenage years. Coming to England shortly after the completion of his education in the Rabbinic College at Warsaw, Ginsburg continued his study of the Hebrew Scriptures, with special attention to the "Megillot". - Nachman Goldstein
Nachman Goldstein of Tcherin (d. 1894), also known as the Tcheriner Rav (rabbi of Tcherin, a town in eastern Ukraine), was a leading disciple of Nathan of Breslov (known as "Reb Noson"), who in turn was the chief disciple of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov, the founder of the Breslov Hasidic dynasty. Goldstein was the first to write a learned commentary specifically on Rebbe Nachman's teachings, giving scholarly legitimacy to the Breslov movement after the deaths of Nachman (d. - Alan Cameron
Alan Cameron, a British classicist (B.A. Oxford, 1961; M.A. 1964), is Charles Anthon Professor of the Latin Language and Literature at Columbia University, where he has taught since about 1977. In March 1997 he was awarded the American Philological Association's Goodwin Award of Merit in classical scholarship. His books include: * "Barbarians and Politics at the Court of Arcadius" (May 1992)(with Jacqueline Long, Assistant Professor of Classics, … - Julius Bahnsen
Dr. Julius Friedrich August Bahnsen (born March 30th, 1830, in Tondern, Nordschleswig; died December 7th, 1881, in Lauenburg, Pomerania) was a German philosopher. Bahnsen is usually considered the originator of characterology and a real-dialectical method of philosophical reflection which he laid down in his two-volume "Contributions to Characterology" (1867) and developed forth with his following works, … - Cosmas Of Prague
Cosmas of Prague was a Bohemian priest, writer and historian born in a noble family in Bohemia. Between 1075 and 1081, he studied in Liège. After his return to Bohemia, he became a priest and married Božetěcha, with whom he probably had a son. In 1086 Cosmas was appointed prebendary ("canonicus") of Prague, which was quite a prestigious position. As prebendary he also travelled through Europe on official matters. - Robert Gunther
Robert Theodore Gunther was a historian of science and founder of the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford. Gunther's father, Albert Günther, was keeper of Zoology at the British Museum in London. Robert Gunther was educated at University College School, attached to University College London. He was elected to a demyship at Magdalen College, Oxford in 1887. He took this up in 1888, having already studied at University College, Oxford. - Auguste-Henri Forel
Auguste-Henri Forel (September 1, 1848 - July 27, 1931) was a Swiss myrmecologist, neuroanatomist and psychiatrist, notable for his investigations into the brain structure of humans and ants. Born in LaGracieuse, near Morges, Switzerland, he was a good friend of the eminent British entomologist Horace Donisthorpe, although his ardent socialist views frequently caused political arguments between the two. - Kim Jeong-Ho
Kim Jeong-ho (pen name Gosanja; 1804-1866?) was a Korean geographer and cartographer. He literally walked the entire length and breadth of the Korean peninsula, through mountain and valley, in order to research and compile his "magnum opus", the "Daedong Yeojido," a map of Korea that was published in 1861. The events surrounding Kim's death are obscure. What is clear is that after the publication of a later, … - John Layard
John Willoughby Layard (27 November 1891-26 November 1974) was an English anthropologist and psychologist. - Bruno Hildebrand
Bruno Hildebrand (March 6,1812 - January 29, 1878) was a German economist representing the "older" historical school of economics. His economic thinking was highly critical of classical economists, especially of David Ricardo. His "magnum opus" was "Economics of the Present and the Future" (1848). The basic aim of this work was to establish laws of economic development. Hildebrand also stated that economic development was linear not cyclical. - O. J. Matthijs Jolles
Otto Jolle Matthijs Jolles (1911-1968) performed a major service to strategic studies in the United States by providing the first American translation of Carl von Clausewitz's "magnum opus", "On War". Jolles himself is a bit obscure to students of military affairs, largely because his translation of "On War" was his only published effort in that field. Even his nationality has been misidentified -- he has been variously identified as Hungarian, Czech, … - Nachman Chazan
Nachman Chazan (1813-1884) was a seminal figure in the continuation and growth of Breslov Hasidism in the mid-nineteenth century. The Breslov movement was founded by Rebbe Nachman of Breslov, who died in 1810. Rebbe Nachman's closest disciple, Nathan of Breslov, shaped and shepherded the movement until his own death in 1844. When Reb Nachman Chazan assumed leadership of the movement, he guaranteed the existence and growth of the Hasidut for another 40 years. - Bhaskararaya
Bhaskararaya (1690-1785) is widely considered an authority on all questions pertaining to the worship of the Mother Goddess in Hinduism. The worship of Shakti involves many hidden meanings of mantras and coded passages. It is said that these meanings were revealed to Bhaskararaya by the Goddess Herself. His works number more than 40 and range from Vedanta to poems of devotion and from logic and grammar to the science of Tantra.
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