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1 day ago · His body of work touched a wide range of topics, including art, philology, history, music, religion, tragedy, culture, and science, and drew inspiration from Greek tragedy as well as figures such as Zoroaster, Arthur Schopenhauer, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Wagner, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
- Lou Andreas-Salomé
Lou Andreas-Salomé (born either Louise von Salomé or Luíza...
- Master–slave Morality
Master–slave morality (German: Herren- und Sklavenmoral) is...
- Lou Andreas-Salomé
2 days ago · Prometheus is a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in which a character based on the mythic Prometheus addresses God (as Zeus) in a romantic and misotheist tone of accusation and defiance. The poem was written between 1772 and 1774. It was first published fifteen years later in 1789.
5 days ago · Friedrich Nietzsche, German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture, who became one of the most influential of all modern thinkers. His attempts to unmask the motives that underlie traditional Western religion, morality, and philosophy deeply affected generations of intellects.
2 days ago · Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel[ a ] (27 August 1770 – 14 November 1831) was a German philosopher and one of the most influential figures of German idealism and 19th-century philosophy. His influence extends across the entire range of contemporary philosophical topics, from metaphysical issues in epistemology and ontology, to political ...
18 hours ago · Versuch die Metamorphose der Pflanzen zu erklären lautet der Titel der von Johann Wolfgang von Goethe im Jahr 1790 verfassten botanischen Schrift. [ 1 ] Goethe gilt mit seiner Schrift als Mitbegründer der Vergleichenden Morphologie. [ 2 ] 27 Jahre später veröffentlichte Goethe die Schrift ein zweites Mal als Artikel in der Schriftenreihe ...
18 hours ago · Joseph Karl Stieler (1 November 1781 – 9 April 1858) was a German painter. [1] From 1820 until 1855 he worked as royal court painter for the Bavarian kings.He is known for his Neoclassical portraits, especially for the Gallery of Beauties at Nymphenburg Palace in Munich, as well as his emblematic portrait of Ludwig van Beethoven, which has become one of his most famous works.
1 day ago · Carl Linnaeus [a] (23 May 1707 [note 1] – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné, [3] [b] was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms.
