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Alfred Adler

The Austrian psychologist and doctor, most famous for identifying and then naming the “inferiority complex”, helped usher in the era of individual psychology. Born in 1867 in Vienna, a severe childhood case of pneumonia greatly influenced Adler’s pursuit of medical knowledge. In 1895, he earned a medical degree from th....[more]

Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold (December 24, 1822 – April 15, 1888) was an English poet and critic. He is best known for the lyric poems “Dover Beach” (1867), “The Scholar-Gipsy” (1853), the commemorative poem “Thyrsis” (1865), a series of essays called Culture and Anarchy, and Literature and Dogma. Arnold was born at Laleham on ....[more]

Francis Bacon

A knight, a lawyer and philosopher among other titles, Sir Francis Bacon was born in 1561 in London, England, where he was tutored at home due to his poor health. Eventually, at age 12, he was deemed well enough to attend Trinity College where he excelled and soon caught the eye of Queen Elizabeth, who took to calling ....[more]

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Ali A. Abdi

Education, Political Science

Paul Abelson

Education

Arthur G. Adams

Education, History, Photography

Herbert B. Adams

Biography & Autobiography, Education, Fiction, History, Political Science, Social Science

John Adams

Biography & Autobiography, Education, Family & Relationships, Fiction, History, Juvenile Fiction, Law, Literary Criticism, Music, Political Science, Reference, Science, Social Science, Sports & Recreation

Mortimer J. Adler

Education, Fiction, History, Language Arts & Disciplines, Literary Collections, Philosophy, Political Science, Reference, Religion, Science, Social Science

Born in New York, Mortimer Adler was educated at Columbia University. Later as a philosophy instructor there, he taught in a program focused on the intellectual foundations of Western civilization. Called to the University of Chicago in 1927 by President Robert Maynard Hutchins, Adler played a major role in renovating ....[more]