Max Weber

Max Weber

male, deceased (1920)
Maximilian Carl Emil Weber (April 21, 1864 - June 14, 1920) was a German political economist and sociologist who is considered one of the founders...
Friedrich Engels

Friedrich Engels

male, deceased (1895)
Friedrich Engels was a German social scientist and philosopher, who developed communist theory alongside his better-known collaborator, Karl Marx,...
Ibn Khaldun

Ibn Khaldun

male, deceased (1406)
Ibn Khaldūn or Ibn Khaldoun (May 27, 1332 AD/732 AH - March 19, 1406 AD/808 AH), was a famous Arab Muslim polymath, historian, historiographer, d...
Auguste Comte

Auguste Comte

male, deceased (1857)
Auguste Comte was a French thinker who coined the term "sociology." He is remembered for being the first to apply the scientific method to the...
Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche

male, deceased (1900)
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher. His writing included critiques of religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy, and...
Giambattista Vico

Giambattista Vico

male, deceased (1744)
Giambattista Vico or Giovanni Battista Vico (June 23, 1668 - January 23, 1744) was a Neapolitan philosopher, historian, and jurist. Born to a...
Fernand Braudel

Fernand Braudel

male, deceased (1985)
Fernand Braudel (August 24 1902-November 27 1985) was a French historian. He revolutionized the 20th century study of his discipline by considering...
Marc Bloch

Marc Bloch

male, deceased (1944)
Marc Léopold Benjamin Bloch was a French historian of medieval France in the period between the First and Second World Wars, and a founder of the A...
Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle

male, deceased (1881)
Thomas Carlyle was a Scottish essayist, satirist, and historian, whose work was hugely influential during the Victorian era. Coming from a strictly...