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- and psychiatrist. He was the founder of Logotherapy and Existential ... Viktor Frankl was born in Vienna, Austria, the second of three children ...21 KB (3,325 words) - 20:21, 3 May 2023
- first to quantify the change in frequency of a wave motion experienced by ... Christian Doppler was born in Salzburg, Austria, the son of a well ...11 KB (1,670 words) - 17:59, 10 December 2023
- He was the fourth secretary-general of the United Nations, serving ... Prior to serving as UN secretary general, Waldheim was a member of ...13 KB (1,913 words) - 04:39, 4 March 2023
- to the Mathematical Seminar at the University of Vienna, Boltzmanngasse ... The Vienna Circle (in German: der Wiener Kreis) was a group of philosophers ...34 KB (4,936 words) - 20:14, 3 May 2023
- 31, 1939) was an Austrian psychologist, one of Sigmund Freud's closest ... contexts, particularly in the areas of personal growth and self-actualization ...17 KB (2,538 words) - 05:54, 18 November 2022
- Simon Wiesenthal, Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE) (December ... At the end of World War II, thousands of Nazis who participated in ...23 KB (3,477 words) - 22:10, 29 January 2023
- States thereafter. He was a leading member of the Vienna Circle and probably ... Hempel wrote, "Carnap's ingenious and illuminating methods ...27 KB (4,028 words) - 21:04, 21 December 2022
- Empire. It ended in 1676, with the Treaty of Żurawno and the Commonwealth ... The Commonwealth, however, was terminally weakened as a result of ...12 KB (1,753 words) - 00:14, 12 April 2023
- Switzerland) was an Austrian writer, author of the unfinished long novel The ... As a result of Musil's background, he is an instrumental figure ...18 KB (2,958 words) - 01:45, 16 December 2022
- theatre, greatly influenced the development of the Romantic opera in German ... Weber was the eldest of the three children of Franz Anton von Weber ...10 KB (1,605 words) - 19:20, 26 November 2023
- or Prague school was an influential group of literary critics and linguists ... from the classical structural position of Ferdinand de Saussure. They ...16 KB (2,265 words) - 22:11, 30 November 2022
- research revolutionized our understanding of the sensory perception of fish ... Karl von Frisch was born in Vienna, Austria, the son of a university ...15 KB (2,290 words) - 10:47, 28 February 2023
- 11, 1994) was an Austrian-born philosopher of science. He was one of the ... has noted, "If one looks at the course of Feyerabend's life, one ...26 KB (3,955 words) - 16:54, 21 November 2022
- and a professor at the London School of Economics. He is counted among ... Popper was born in Vienna (then part of Austria-Hungary) in 1902 to ...33 KB (4,906 words) - 07:20, 5 October 2022
- a philosophical model. He was a close friend of the U.S. German-born theologian ... May is best known for his work on the human struggles of living in ...14 KB (2,212 words) - 02:44, 16 December 2022
- who developed Alfred Adler's system of individual psychology into ... with the school environment as an extension of the family. Thus, his techniques ...11 KB (1,581 words) - 21:05, 21 December 2022
- Edmund Husserl's formulation, the study of experience and the ways in ... This emphasis on the intentional structure of experience makes phenomenology ...26 KB (3,647 words) - 02:57, 24 November 2022
- influences = Hume, Vienna Circle, Popper, Russell, Wittgenstein, Kant | ... British philosopher known for his promotion of logical positivism, particularly ...30 KB (4,587 words) - 06:50, 13 June 2023
- 26, 1983) was a logician and mathematician of considerable philosophical ... Nevertheless, in 1918 he entered the University of Warsaw intending to ...27 KB (4,019 words) - 20:34, 20 July 2023
- Pavel Josef Šafařík, also known by the Slovak spelling of his name ... local culture while realizing the extent of Slavic oppression. While most ...26 KB (4,082 words) - 01:44, 23 November 2022
- in the self, particularly the development of the self within the context ... his death: Look Homeward, Angel (1929), and Of Time and River (1935); and ...16 KB (2,496 words) - 22:56, 30 April 2023
- Raoul Gustav Wallenberg (born August 4, 1912, exact date of death ... ancestors. Raoul Wallenberg, Sr., died of cancer three months before ...11 KB (1,744 words) - 00:37, 8 December 2022
- a Scottish medical missionary and explorer of the Victorian era who traveled ... David Livingstone was born in the village of Blantyre, South Lanarkshire ...18 KB (2,693 words) - 08:06, 28 January 2024
- 50 years and 60 films. He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile ... in America). Soon the family moved to Vienna, where Wilder attended school ...22 KB (3,248 words) - 17:40, 31 October 2023
- an English dramatist, known for his creation of the comedy of intrigue and ... Etherege was one of the early examples of Restoration Comedy, which ...15 KB (2,460 words) - 08:05, 23 January 2023
- also an important forerunner in the school of art known as Expressionism. famous work and was stolen twice; it is one of the most recognizable and iconic ...14 KB (2,144 words) - 18:20, 12 February 2024
- images tend to focus on the problems of Christianity in an age of disbelief ... one must "get behind" the thinkers of the past, and achieve a state ...14 KB (2,076 words) - 00:08, 8 December 2022
- Prize in Literature|1993 Presidential Medal of Freedom|2012 ... | notableworks = Beloved, Song of Solomon, The Bluest Eye ...18 KB (2,615 words) - 03:59, 1 May 2023
- 1989) was an American classical pianist of Ukrainian birth. In his prime ... Untouched by the upheavals and prejudices of the time, growing up in a middle ...22 KB (3,176 words) - 20:45, 3 May 2023
- Coelacanth is any sarcopterygian fish of the subclass Coelacanthimorpha ... believed to have been extinct since the end of the Cretaceous period, until ...26 KB (3,758 words) - 22:25, 7 January 2024
- often taking years and sometimes decades of careful preparation – including ... ) was born on June 13, 1935, in Gabrovo, Bulgaria, as the second of ...37 KB (5,196 words) - 21:40, 10 December 2023
- Carol I of Romania, original name Prince Karl Eitel Friedrich Zephyrinus ... During the Independence War of 1877-1878, Prince Charles personally ...26 KB (4,057 words) - 00:37, 29 November 2023
- ; May 22, 1808 – January 26, 1855) was the pen name of the French ... Antoinette Laurent, was the daughter of a clothing salesman,Pierre ...30 KB (4,372 words) - 21:54, 30 April 2023
- in Literature in 1934. Pirandello was one of the leading figures of modernity ... family in a village with the curious name of Caos (Chaos), a poor suburb ...35 KB (5,638 words) - 02:44, 5 November 2022
- The term enemy of the people or enemy of the nation, is a term used ... Totalitarian governments like the Soviet Union made extensive use ...44 KB (5,878 words) - 20:20, 30 October 2022
- to facilitate and manage the logistics of mass deportation to Ghettos ... Born in Solingen, Germany, Adolf Eichmann was the son of a businessman ...27 KB (4,132 words) - 06:02, 15 June 2023
- who is best known for pioneering works of Bengali poetry. He is popularly ... as a muezzin at a local mosque. He learned of poetry, drama, and literature ...34 KB (5,210 words) - 22:44, 14 September 2023
- The Banc d'Arguin National Park lies on the west coast of Mauritania ... It is a major breeding site for migratory birds. A wide range of species ...16 KB (2,318 words) - 17:29, 10 February 2023
- a Dutch painter who specialized in scenes of ordinary people going about ... lifetime he was relatively unknown outside of his hometown of Delft where ...27 KB (4,136 words) - 07:23, 5 April 2024
- ) was a non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany, consisting of ... The six core members of the group were arrested by the Gestapo, convicted ...22 KB (3,366 words) - 17:23, 4 May 2023
- Prague (Czech: Praha), is the capital and largest city of the Czech ... Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, Prague has become one of Europe ...35 KB (5,518 words) - 00:31, 12 April 2023
- The Dominican Order, originally known as the Order of Preachers, is ... Aquinas, Albertus Magnus, St. Catherine of Siena, and Girolamo Savonarola ...21 KB (3,178 words) - 17:16, 30 January 2024
- | work_institution = University of Vienna | alma_mater = University of Vienna | doctoral_advisor = Jean-Martin ...58 KB (8,678 words) - 21:59, 29 January 2023
- Franz Kafka (July 3, 1883 – June 3, 1924) was one of the major German ... His most famous pieces of writing include his short story Die Verwandlung ...29 KB (4,338 words) - 09:35, 11 April 2024
- but known to his friends as Van, was one of the most influential American ... while also being the main proponent of the view that philosophy is ...34 KB (5,037 words) - 15:37, 6 May 2023
- century as a humanitarian and advocate of peace. Schweitzer received ... Schweitzer was the principal of a theological college and author of ...33 KB (4,954 words) - 05:02, 17 June 2023
- - January 9, 1927) was a British-born author of books on political philosophy ... who died in 1927 prior to the rise to power of Hitler and the Nazis, was not ...19 KB (2,874 words) - 01:22, 4 February 2023
- Most of Greece was part of the Ottoman Empire from the fourteenth ... 1500), and remained primarily under the rule of Venice. Inspired by the new ...23 KB (3,403 words) - 05:56, 18 November 2022
- ), officially the Republic of Austria ( Republik Österreich ... The origins of modern Austria date back to the ninth century, when ...90 KB (13,119 words) - 17:56, 22 August 2023
- He first came to prominence with a series of radio news broadcasts during ... A pioneer of television news broadcasting, Murrow's work continued ...32 KB (5,062 words) - 23:47, 12 February 2024
