Historic Figure

An historic figure is someone who died before the 21st century but made significant contributions to their field of study.

Authors

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau was an 18th-century Genevan political philosopher and writer....
John Dewey
John Dewey was an American philosopher and educational reformer. He is most well-known for his contributions to the philosophy of pragmatism and his attempts to enact educational approaches and create...
G. K. Chesterton
G. K. Chesterton was a prolific English writer. His nonfiction covered various topics—ranging from religion, anthropology, and science to art, politics, and literature—while his most famous fictio...
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin was a naturalist best known as the father of the theory of evolution via natural selection. His most well-known work On the Origin of Species was written after traveling to the Galapago...
Karl Marx
Karl Marx was a German political theorist. He is best known for his critical theories about society—formulated as Marxism—which shaped the development of socialist and communist political reformat...
Friedrich Engels
Friedrich Engels was a German political scientist. He co-authored many critical writings with Karl Marx and is considered one of the fathers of Marxism....