Recent questions tagged genius-people

Description : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Last Answer : Goethe, German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, critic, and amateur artist, is considered the greatest German literary figure of the modern era. Goethe is ... he appears as the central and unsurpassed representative of the Romantic movement, broadly understood.

Description : Leonardo Da Vinci

Last Answer : Leonardo Da Vinci, Italian painter, draftsman, sculptor, architect, and engineer whose genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal. His Last Supper ... rests largely on his unlimited desire for knowledge, which guided all his thinking and behaviour.

Description : John Stuart Mill

Last Answer : John Stuart Mill was an English philosopher, economist, and exponent of Utilitarianism. He was prominent as a publicist in the reforming age of the 19th century, and remains of lasting ... however, there has been considerable difference of opinion about the enduring merits of his philosophy.

Description : Ludwig Wittgenstein

Last Answer : In full - Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein was an Austrian-born English philosopher, regarded by many as the greatest philosopher of the 20th century. Wittgenstein's two major works, Logisch-philosophische ... even filmmakers, so that his fame has spread far beyond the confines of academic life.

Description : Bobby Fischer

Last Answer : Bobby is the byname of Robert James Fischer, an American chess master who became the youngest grandmaster in history when he received the title in 1958. His youthful intemperance and brilliant playing drew the ... . In doing so, Fischer won the $156,000 victor's share of the $250,000 purse.

Description : Galileo Galilei

Last Answer : Galileo was Italian natural philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician who made fundamental contributions to the sciences of motion, astronomy, and strength of materials and to the development of the ... view that the Bible contained errors, eventually resulted in an Inquisition process against him.

Description : Madame De Stael

Last Answer : In full - Anne-Louise-Germaine Necker, Baronne (baroness) de Staël-Holstein, byname Madame de Staël. Madame de Stael was a French-Swiss woman of letters, political propagandist, and conversationalist, who epitomized ... to include her rather than him in order to put at least one woman on this list.