1 March 2014 | Author/Destination: Editorial / Redaktion | Rubric: Portrait
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John Locke signature
John Locke (1632 – 1704), widely known as the
Father of Classical Liberalism, was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of
Enlightenment thinkers. Considered one of the first of the British
empiricists, following the tradition of
Francis Bacon, he is equally important to
social contract theory. His work greatly affected the development of
epistemology and
political philosophy. His writings influenced
Voltaire and
Rousseau, many
Scottish Enlightenment thinkers, as well as the
American revolutionaries. His contributions to
classical republicanism and
liberal theory are reflected in the
United States Declaration of Independence.
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9 January 2013 | Author/Destination: Editorial / Redaktion | Rubric: Portrait
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Oil painting of mathematician and philosopher Carl Friedrich Gauss by G. Biermann © Gauß-Gesellschaft Göttingen e.V. – Foto: A. Wittmann
Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (* 30 April 1777 in
Braunschweig – † 23 February 1855 in
Göttingen) was a German mathematician and physical scientist who contributed significantly to many fields, including
number theory,
statistics,
analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, geophysics, electrostatics, astronomy and optics. read more…
