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...
Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy

male, deceased (1910)
Leo Tolstoy dedicated websites *Leo Tolstoy museum in Yasnaya Polyana *State Leo Tolstoy Museum in Moscow Biographies and critiques *Illustrated...
Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

male, deceased (1592)
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne-Delecroix (February 28 1533-September 13 1592) was one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance....
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

male, deceased (1799)
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was an 18th-century German scientist, satirist and Anglophile. As a scientist, he was the first to hold a professorship...

François de la Rochefoucauld

male, deceased (1680)
François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld, le Prince de Marcillac, was a noted French author of maxims and memoirs, as well as an example of the a...
Don Paterson

Don Paterson

male, 46 years old
Don Paterson, Scottish poet, writer and musician, was born in Dundee, Scotland, in 1963. He won an Eric Gregory Award in 1990 and his poem 'A...
Antonio Porchia

Antonio Porchia

male, deceased (1968)
Antonio Porchia was an Italian poet. He was born in Conflenti (Italy) but, after the death of his father in 1900, moved to Argentina. He wrote a...
Nicolas Chamfort

Nicolas Chamfort

male, deceased (1794)
Nicolas Chamfort (April 6, 1741, Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne France - April 13, 1794, Paris) was a French writer, best known for his witty epigrams...

Paul Valéry

male, deceased (1945)
Ambroise-Paul-Toussaint-Jules Valéry (October 30, 1871 – July 20, 1945) was a French poet, essayist, and philosopher. His interests were suf...

Stanisław Jerzy Lec

male, deceased (1966)
Stanisław Jerzy Lec (born baron Stanisław Jerzy de Tusch-Letz) was a Polish poet and aphorist of Polish and Jewish noble origin. According to Cl...