Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Author Listing
Rabbi Akiva, fully Rebbe Akiva ben Yosef NULL
Jewish Sage, Founder of Rabbinic Judaism, , referred to in the Talmud as "Rosh la-Chachamim" (Head of all the Sages)
George Aiken, fully George David Aiken
American Politician, Governor of Vermont, U.S. Senator, at the time of his retirement, Aiken was the most senior member of the Senate
Josia Bailey, fully Josiah William Bailey
American Senator of North Carolina, Editor of the Biblical Recorder
Giambattista Basile, aka Giovan Battista Basile
Italian Poet, Courtier and Fairy Tale Collector
Max Beerbohm, fully Sir Henry Maximilian "Max" Beerbohm
English Essayist, Caricaturist and Parodist
Heywood Broun, fully Matthew Heywood Campbell Broun
American Journalist, Novelist and Columnist
Paul Brunton, born Hermann Hirsch, wrote under various pseudonyms including Brunton Paul, Raphael Meriden and Raphael Delmonte
British Philosopher, Mystic, Journalist, Traveler and Guru
George Matthew Adams
Newspaper Columnist, Author, Writer, Philosopher and Publisher who founded the Adams Newspaper Service
John Abbott, fully John Stevens Cabot Abbott
American Historian, Pastor and Pedagogical Writer
Shana Alexander, fully Shana Agar Alexander
American Journalist, Staff Writer and Columnist for Life Magazine, best known for participation in "Point-Counterpoint" debate segments of 60 Minutes
Michael Barenbaum
American Scholar, Professor, Rabbi, Writer, Lecturer and Film-maker who focused on the memorialization of the Holocaust, Director of the U.S. Holocaust Museum Research Institute, President of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, Executive Editor of the Encyclopedia Judaica
Jacob Bohme, or Jacob Behmen or Jakob Böhme
German Teutonic Philosopher, Christian Mystic, Father of German Philosophy
Ernest Becker
American-Canadian Cultural Anthropologist and Interdisciplinary Scientific Thinker and Writer
Murray Bookchin
American Libertarian Socialist Author, Orator, Philosopher and Pioneer in the Ecology Movement
Max Brod
German-speaking Czech and later Israeli Jewish Novelist, Essayist and Composer, Biographer and Literary Executor of Franz Kafka publishing his life's work rather than burning them as instructed
Lord Brooke, Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, de jure 13th Baron Latimer and 5th Baron Willoughby de Brooke
English Elizabethan Poet, Dramatist and Statesman
Allan Chalmers, fully Allan Knight Chalmers
Presbyterian Evangelist, Leader in Pacifist Movement, Mentor to Martin Luther King, Jr.
Yehezkel Abramsky, aka Reb Chatzkel Abramsky
Russian (Belarus-born) English Orthodox Rabbi and Scholar
James B. Angell, fully James Burrill Angell
American Educator, Academic Administrator and Diplomat
