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 H. Jackson, fully Robert Houghwout Jackson
American Justice of U.S. Supreme Court and United States Attorney General
Gerald White Johnson
American Professor, Editorial Writer, Journalist, Essayist, Biographer and Novelist
Ya’akov Dov "Katzele" Katz
Israeli Politician, leader of the National Union party, Member of the Knesset, Executive Director of Beit El Yeshiva Center Institutions and Arutz Sheva
Susan Jeffers
American Psychologist, Author of Self-Help Literature and Public Speaker on Fear and Healing Relationships
John-Roger & Peter McWilliams NULL
American Authors, Publishers of Self Help Books. Peter McWilliams (1949-2000) and John-Roger (Hinkins)
David Starr Jordan
American Leading Eugenicist, Icthyologist, Educator and Peace Activist, President of Indiana University and Stanford University, Director of the Sierra Club, Expert Witness at the Scopes Trial
Margo Jones
American Stage Director and Producer, introduced theater-in-the-round concept in Dallas, Texas
Rufus Jones, fully Rufus Matthew Jones
American Writer, Magazine Editor, Philosopher, College Philosophy Professor, Quaker Historian of Mysticism and Theologian, Co-founder of the American Friends Service Committee which has won the Nobel Prize
Carl Jung, fully Carl Gustav Jung
Swiss Psychiatrist, Influential Thinker, and Founder of Analytical Psychology
W. Brugh Joy, fully William Brugh Joy
American Author, M.D. in Internal Medicine and Self-Development Workshop Leader
Petra Kelly, fully Petra Karin Kelley
German Politician, Peace Activist, Helped found Green Party
Walter Kerr, fully Walter Francis Kerr
America Writer, Lyricist, Director and Broadway Theater Critic
Otto Kahn, fully Otto Hermann Kahn
German Investment Banker, Collector, Philanthropist and Patron of the Arts
Saint Isaac of Nineveh, also Isaac the Syrian, Isaac of Qatar and Isaac Syrus NULL
Syrian Monk, Bishop, Theologian and Ascetic Hermit
Moses ibn Ezra, fully Rabbi Moses ben Jacob ibn Ezra, known as ha-Sallah "Writer of penitential prayers"
Spanish Jewish Philosopher, Poet, Critic and Linguist
Hubert Humphrey, fully Hubert Horatio Humphrey
Vice-President of the United States, Senator from Minnesota, Democratic Majority Whip, Presidential Candidate for President losing to Richard Nixon
Aldous Leonard Huxley
English Novelist, Short-Stories, Playwright and Editor including Brave New World and Oxford Poetry
Frederick Dan Huntington
American Clergy and Protestant Episcopal Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Central New York
Eric Allen Johnston
Business Owner, President of the United States Chamber of Commerce, President of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), and a U.S. government Special Projects Administrator and Envoy for both Democratic and Republican administrations
Joseph Klausner, fully Joseph Gedaliah Klausner
Jewish Historian and Professor of Hebrew Literature, Chief Redactor of The Hebrew Encyclopedia, Candidate for President in first Israeli election losing to Chaim Weizmann
Rabbi Yisroel Meir Kagan, aka “Chofetz Chayim”
Lithuanian Rabbi of the Musar Movement, Halakhist, Posek and Ethicist
Martin Luther King, Sr., born Michael King
American Baptist Missionary, Advocate for Equal Justice, Early Civil Rights Leader, aka "Daddy King"