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
Robert Hutchins, fully Robert Maynard Hutchins
American Educator, Foundation Executive, Writer, Dean of Yale Law School, President and Chancellor of the University of Chicago, husband of novelist Maude Hutchins
Chayim of Volozhin, also Chaim ben Yuitzchok of Volozhin or Chaim Ickovits NULL
Rabbi, Leading Disciple of Vilna Gaon, Founded Yeshiva of Volozhin
Kenneth B. Clark, fully Kenneth Bancroft Clark
American Psychologist and Educator, Professor at City College of New York, first black president of the American Psychological Association
Stuart Cloete, fully Edward Fairly Stuart Graham
South African Novelist, Short Story Writer and Essayist
J. L. M. Curry, fully Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry
Alabama Political Leader, Lawyer, Educator and Soldier
Simon Dubnow, also spelled Semyon Markovich Dubnov
Russian Jewish Historian, Writer and Activist
Loren Eiseley
American Author, Anthropologist, Educator, Philosopher and Natural Science Writer
Eliyahu de Vidas,
Rabbi, Disciple of Rabbis Moses ben Jacob Cordovero (known as the Ramak) and also Isaac Luria known for his work in the Kabbalah
Cort R. Flint
Author of "The Faith of Billy Graham" and co-Author of "Better Men or Bitter Men" with Homer L. Good and Norman Vincent Peale
Frank Bunker Gilberth, Sr.
American Businessman, Early advocate of Scientific Management and a Pioneer of Motion Study, best known as the father and central figure of "Cheaper by the Dozen"
Peter C. Goldmark, Jr.
American Environmentalist, President of the Rockefeller Foundation, Chairman and CEO of International Herald Tribune and Environmental Policy Expert, taught at Harvard, Yale, The New School, Brandeis University and Princeton
Robert Gordis
American Conservative Rabbi, Biblical Scholar, Founded first Conservative Jewish Day School, President of the Rabbinical Assembly and the Synagogue Council of America, Author
Jose ben Halafta, or Rabbi Yose ben Halafta, aka Rabbi Yossi
Scholar of Halakha and Aggadah, Tanna of the fourth generation, student of Rabbi Akiba
Piet Hein
Danish Scientist, Architect, Mathematician, Inventor, Designer, Author, and Poet, often writing under the Old Norse pseudonym "Kumbel" meaning "tombstone"
John Oliver Hobbes, Pseud. for Mrs. Pearlmary-Teresa Craigie
English Author, Novelist and Dramatist
Huang Po, also Huángbò Xīyùn
Chinese Zen Master, Disciple of Pai-chang, Teacher of Lin-chi, Huang Po Ch'uan Hsin Fa Yao, a ninth-century Chinese Buddhist text
Geoffrey Chaucer
English Poet, considered greatest English poet of the Middle Ages, first poet buried in Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey
Eldridge Cleaver, fully Leroy Eldridge Cleaver
American Writer, Leader of the Black Panther Movement, Author of Soul on Ice
John Chrysostom, fully Saint John Chrysostom
Greek Archbishop of Constantinople known for his eloquence in preaching and public speaking, his denunciation of abuse of authority by both ecclesiastical and political leaders
Declaration of Independence NULL
A statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain were now independent states, and thus no longer a part of the British Empire, written primarily by Thomas Jefferson
Salvador Dalí, fully Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech
Spanish Surrealist Painter
Josemaria Escrivá, fully José María or Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer y Albás, born José María Mariano Escrivá y Albás
Spanish Prelate of Roman Catholic Church