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
Euripedes NULL
Greek Tragic Playwright, Last of the Three Great Tragedians of Classical Athens (others being Aeschylus and Sophocles)
J. Paul Getty, fully Jean Paul Getty
American Industrialist, Oil Magnate, Founder Getty Oil Company
Philip Gibbs, fully Sir Philip Gibbs
English Journalist and Novelist, one of five official British reporters during the First World War
Eleazar ha-Kappar, alternate spelling Eliezer ha-Kappar
Jewish Tanna Sage of the fifth and last generation of the Tannaim era
Walter Heller, fully Walter Wolfgang Heller
American Economist and Chairman of Economic Advisers to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson
Hugo von Hofmannstahal, fully Hugo Laurenz August Hofmann von Hofmannsthal
Austrian Novelist, Librettist, poet, Dramatist, Narrator and Essayist
Horace, full name Quintus Horatius Flaccus NULL
Roman Lyric Poet and Satirist under the Emperor Augustus
Charles Darwin, fully Charles Robert Darwin
English Naturalist proposed evolution theory that all species of life descended from common ancestors in which the struggle for existence has a similar effect to the artificial selection involved in selective breeding
Declaration of Indian Purpose NULL
American Indian Chicago Conference, Beginning with the founding of the National Congress of American Indians in 1944, Native Americans established national organizations to demand a greater voice in determining their own destiny. In 1961, some 700 Indians from sixty-four tribes met in Chicago to attack termination and formulate an Indian political agenda and a shared declaration of principles.
Henri Deterding, fully Henri Wilhelm August Deterding
Dutch Businessman, Chairman of the Royal Dutch/Shell Oil Company
Everett Dirksen, fully Everett McKinley Dirksen
American Political Leader, Senator and Congressman from Illinois
Friedrich Engels
German Philosopher, Social Scientist, Author, Political Theorist and Father of Marxist Theory with Karl Marx
Constance Foster
Canadian Attorney for Litigation, Business and Insurance Law, A&D Market Manager for Inscape Corporation
W. C. Fields, stage name for William Claude Dukenfield
American Comedic Actor, Juggler and Writer
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a.k.a. Charlotte Anna (nee Perkins), Charlotte Perkins Stetson
American Sociologist, Novelist, Writer of short stories, Poetry, and Nonfiction, and a Lecturer for Social Reform
Madame Émile de Girardin, Delphine de Girardin, née Gay
French Journalist, Author, Wife of Émile de Giardin, Daughter of Sophie Gay
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
American Unitarian Minister, Abolitionist, Editor and Author, "Discoverer" and Editor of Emily Dickinson's poems, Commander of Black Troops in the Civil War which was the first federally authorized African-American Regiment, Fought for rights of freed slaves, women and other disfranchised peoples
