List of names in A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Rationalists
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Joseph McCabe
published A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Rationalists in 1920 (London: Watts & Co.). Most (though not all) of the individuals therein were later also included in A Biographical Dictionary of Ancient, Medieval and Modern Freethinkers (1945)
Joseph McCabe
Joseph Martin McCabe was an English writer and speaker on freethought, after having been a Roman Catholic priest earlier in his life.-Early life:...
published A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Rationalists in 1920 (London: Watts & Co.). Most (though not all) of the individuals therein were later also included in A Biographical Dictionary of Ancient, Medieval and Modern Freethinkers (1945)
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- ABOUZIT, Firmin
- ABBE, Professor ErnstErnst Karl Abbe- See also :*Abbe prism*Abbe refractometer*Abbe error*Aberration in optical systems*Calculation of glass properties* German inventors and discoverers-External links:*...
- ABBOT, Francis E.Francis Ellingwood AbbotFrancis Ellingwood Abbot was an American philosopher and theologian who sought to reconstruct theology in accord with scientific method....
- ABBOTT, George F.George Frederick AbbottGeorge Frederick Abbott was an English war correspondent and author.Abbott was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, taking the degree of B.A. in 1899. In 1900 he was sent by Cambridge University to Macedonia to make studies in the folk-lore of that region...
, B.A. - ABBOTT, Leonard D.Leonard Dalton AbbottLeonard Dalton Abbott was an English-born American publicist, politician, and freethinker. Originally a socialist, Abbott turned to libertarian anarchism in the first decade of the 20th century. He is best remembered as a leader of the so-called "Modern School movement" of those years.-Early...
- ABOUT, EdmondEdmond François Valentin AboutEdmond François Valentin About was a French novelist, publicist and journalist.-Life:He was born at Dieuze, in the Moselle département in the Lorraine region of France. In 1848 he entered the École Normale, taking second place in the annual competition for admission in which Hippolyte Taine came...
- ACHELIS, Thomas
- ACKERMANN, Louise V.Louise-Victorine AckermannLouise-Victorine Ackermann was a French poet.She was born in Nice, but spent her younger days in more rural surroundings near Montdidier, south-east of Amiens...
- ACOLLAS, Professor E.Emile AcollasEmile Acollas was a French professor of Jurisprudence born in La Châtre, Indre.He was one of the founders of the League of Peace and Freedom set up in 1867. His call for the conference gained 10,000 adherents including Victor Hugo, John Stuart Mill, Elisée Reclus, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Louis Blanc...
- ACOSTA, UrielUriel da CostaUriel da Costa or Uriel Acosta was a philosopher and skeptic from Portugal.-Life:Costa was born in Porto with the name Gabriel da Costa...
- ADAM, Professor Charles, D. es L.
- ADAMS, Charles FrancisCharles Francis Adams, Jr.Charles Francis Adams II was a member of the prominent Adams family, and son of Charles Francis Adams, Sr. He served as a colonel in the Union Army during the American Civil War...
- ADAMS, Francis W. L.Francis Adams (writer)Francis William Lauderdale Adams was an essayist, poet, dramatist, novelist and journalist who produced a large volume of work in his short life.- Early life :...
- ADAMS, JohnJohn AdamsJohn Adams was an American lawyer, statesman, diplomat and political theorist. A leading champion of independence in 1776, he was the second President of the United States...
, President of the United States - ADAMS, Robert
- ADAMSON, Professor Robert, Ph.D.
- ADCOCK, A. St. JohnArthur St. John AdcockArthur St. John Adcock , was an English novelist and poet, remembered for his discovery of the then-unknown poet W. H. Davies....
- ADICKES, Professor E.Erich AdickesErich Adickes - German philosopher who wrote many important works on Immanuel Kant and the Kantian philosophy. Adickes was a critical empiricist ....
, Ph.D. - ADLER, Professor Felix, Ph.D.
- AHRENS, Professor Heinrich, Ph.D.
- AIKENHEAD, ThomasThomas AikenheadThomas Aikenhead was a Scottish student from Edinburgh, who was prosecuted and executed at the age of 20 on a charge of blasphemy. He was the last person in Britain to be executed for blasphemy.-Indictment:...
- AIRY, Sir George B.George Biddell AirySir George Biddell Airy PRS KCB was an English mathematician and astronomer, Astronomer Royal from 1835 to 1881...
, K.C.B., D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S. - AITZEMA, Lieuwe vanLeo AitzemaLieuwe van Aitzema was a Dutch historian, diplomat, bon-vivant, philanderer and spy.He was born at Dokkum, in Friesland. In 1617 he published a volume of Latin poems under the title of Poemata Juvenilia, of which a copy is preserved in the British Museum...
- ALBEE, John
- ALCOTT, Amos BronsonAmos Bronson AlcottAmos Bronson Alcott was an American teacher, writer, philosopher, and reformer. As an educator, Alcott pioneered new ways of interacting with young students, focusing on a conversational style, and avoided traditional punishment. He hoped to perfect the human spirit and, to that end, advocated a...
- ALEMBERT, Jean le Rond d’Jean le Rond d'AlembertJean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert was a French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher, and music theorist. He was also co-editor with Denis Diderot of the Encyclopédie...
- ALFIERI, Count V.Vittorio AlfieriCount Vittorio Alfieri was an Italian dramatist, considered the "founder of Italian tragedy."-Early life:Alfieri was born at Asti in Piedmont....
- ALGAROTTI, Count F.Francesco AlgarottiCount Francesco Algarotti was an Italian philosopher and art critic.He also completed engravings.He was born in Venice to a rich merchant. He studied at Rome for a year, and then Bologna, he studied natural sciences and mathematics...
- ALLBUTT, Sir Thomas C., K.C.B., M.A., M.D., D.Sc., LL.D., F.R.S.
- ALLEN, Grant, B.A.Grant AllenCharles Grant Blairfindie Allen was a science writer, author and novelist, and a successful upholder of the theory of evolution.-Biography:...
- ALLEN, Colonel EthanEthan AllenEthan Allen was a farmer, businessman, land speculator, philosopher, writer, and American Revolutionary War patriot, hero, and politician. He is best known as one of the founders of the U.S...
- ALLEN, JohnJohn Allen (historian)John Allen M.D. was a prominent eighteenth and nineteenth century political and historical writer, and Master of the College of God's Gift in Dulwich .-Early life:...
. M.D. - ALLINGHAM, WilliamWilliam AllinghamWilliam Allingham was an Irish man of letters and a poet.-Biography:He was born in Ballyshannon, County Donegal, Ireland and was the son of the manager of a local bank who was of English descent...
- ALLMAN, Professor G. J.George Johnston AllmanGeorge Johnston Allman was an Irish professor, mathematician, classical scholar, and historian of ancient Greek mathematics.He was born in Dublin the son of William Allman MD, also a botanist....
, LL.D., D.Sc., F.R.S. - ALLSOP, ThomasThomas AllsopThomas Allsop was an English stockbroker and author. Allsop is commonly described as the favourite disciple of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.-Early life:...
- ALTMEYER, Professor J. J., Ph.D., D.C.L.
- ALVIELLA, Count Goblet d’Eugene Goblet d'AlviellaEugène Félicien Albert, Count Goblet d'Alviella was a lawyer, liberal senator of Belgium and a Professor of the history of religions and rector of the Universite Libre de Bruxelles...
- AMARI, Professor M.Michele AmariMichele Amari was an Italian patriot and historian. Born at Palermo, he devoted a great part of his life to the history of Sicily, and took part in its emancipation...
- AMICIS, Edmondo deEdmondo De AmicisEdmondo De Amicis was an Italian novelist, journalist, poet and short-story writer. His best-known book is the children's novel Heart.-Early career:...
- AMIEL, Henri F.Henri-Frédéric AmielHenri Frédéric Amiel was a Swiss philosopher, poet and critic.Born in Geneva in 1821, he was descended from a Huguenot family driven to Switzerland by the revocation of the Edict of Nantes....
- ANDERSON, George
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- YEARSLEY, Percival Macleod, F.R.C.S.
- YOUMANS, E. L.Edward L. YoumansEdward Livingston Youmans was an American scientific writer, editor, and lecturer and founder of Popular Science magazine.-Biography:...
, M.D. - YOUMANS, W. J.William Jay YoumansWilliam Jay Youmans was a United States scientist. He edited Popular Science Monthly for a time.-Biography:He was born at Milton, New York. He studied chemistry under his brother, Edward Livingston Youmans, and at Columbia and Yale, then took a course in medicine at New York University, and in...
, M.D. - YOUNGHUSBAND, Sir Francis EdwardFrancis YounghusbandLieutenant Colonel Sir Francis Edward Younghusband, KCSI, KCIE was a British Army officer, explorer, and spiritual writer...
, K.C.S.I., K.C.I.E., C.I.E., LL.D., D.Sec
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- ZANARDELLI, GiuseppeGiuseppe ZanardelliGiuseppe Zanardelli was an Italian jurisconsult, nationalist and political figure. He was the 24th Prime Minister of Italy from February 15, 1901 to November 3, 1903.-Biography:...
- ZANGWILL, IsraelIsrael ZangwillIsrael Zangwill was a British humorist and writer.-Biography:Zangwill was born in London on January 21, 1864 in a family of Jewish immigrants from Czarist Russia, to Moses Zangwill from what is now Latvia and Ellen Hannah Marks Zangwill from what is now Poland. He dedicated his life to championing...
- ZARCO, Francisco
- ZELLER, Professor EduardEduard ZellerEduard Gottlob Zeller , was a German philosopher and theologian of the Tübingen School of theology.- Life :Eduard Zeller was born at Kleinbottwar in Württemberg, and educated at the University of Tübingen and under the influence of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel...
- ZERFFI, George GustavusGustav ZerffiGeorge Gustav Zerffi, born with the surname Cerf or perhaps Hirsch was a Hungarian journalist, revolutionist and spy.-Biography:...
- ZIEGLER, Professor H. E., Ph.D.
- ZIEGLER, Professor TheobaldTheobald ZieglerTheobald Ziegler was a German philosopher and educator who was a native of Göppingen, Württemberg.-Career:...
, Ph.D. - ZIEHEN, Professor G. T., M.D., Ph.D.
- ZIMMERN, HelenHelen ZimmernHelen Zimmern was a German-British writer and translator.-Biography:Zimmern and her parents emigrated in 1850 to Britain, where her father became a Nottingham lace merchant. She was naturalized upon coming of age. She was the sister of the suffragist Alice Zimmern and a cousin of the political...
- ZOLA, EmileÉmile ZolaÉmile François Zola was a French writer, the most important exemplar of the literary school of naturalism and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism...
- ZORRILLA, Manuel Ruiz
- ZUEBLIN, Professor CharlesCharles Zueblin-Biography:Zueblin was born in Pendleton, Indiana in 1866. He was educated at the University of Pennsylvania, Northwestern University, Yale, and the University of Leipzig. In 1891, he founded the Northwestern University Settlement. In 1892, he became the first secretary of the Chicago Society for...
, Ph.D., D.B. - ZUPPETTA, Professor Luigi