Greece & Rome


Pythagoras
(c.580-500 BC)


Socrates
(469-399 BC)


Democritus
(c.460-371 BC)


Plato
(427-347 BC)


Aristotle
(384-322 BC)


Alexander
the Great
(356-323 BC)


Early Christianity


Jesus Christ
(c.5 BC-30 AD)


Paul
the Apostle
(mid 1st cen. AD)


Augustine
(354-430 AD)


Patrick
(389-461)


The Middle
Ages

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Alaric
the Visigoth
(c.370-410)


Thomas
Aquinas
(1224-1274)


Renaissance
& Reformation


Joan of Arc
(1412-1431)


John Calvin
(1509-1564)


John Knox
(15??-1572)


The European
Enlightenment


Galileo Galilei
(1564-1642)


Thomas Hobbes
(1588-1679)


René Descartes
(1596-1650)


John Locke
(1632-1704)


Benedict
(Baruch)
de Spinoza
(1632-1677)


Isaac Newton
(1642-1727)


Gottfried
Wilhelm
Leibniz
(1646-1716)


George Berkeley
(1685-1753)


David Hume
(1711-1777)


Immanuel Kant
(1724-1804)


19th Century


Georg Wilhelm
Friedrich Hegel
(1770-1831)


Ralph Waldo
Emerson
(1803-1882)


Louis Napoleon
III of France
(1808-1873)


1st Half of
20th Century


Albert Einstein
(1879-1955)


Adolph Hitler
(1889-1945)


Reinhold Niebuhr
(1893-1971)


Dietrich Bonhoeffer
(1906-1945)


2nd Half of
20th Century


Nelson Mandela
(1918- )