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
Rashi, born Shlomo ben Yitzchok, aka Salomon Isaacides, Rabbi Shlomo Itzhaki NULL
French Rabbi, Biblical Scholar, Author of Commentaries on the Talmud and Tanakh (Hebrew Bible)
Kenneth Ring
American Social Psychologist and Psychology Professor at the University of Connecticut, researched near-death experiences among blind people
William Osler, fully Sir William Osler
Canadian Physician, Professor of Medicine, one of the "Big Four" founding professors at John Hopkins Hospital, First Professor of Medicine and Founder of Medical Services at John Hopkins Hospital
Lord Peterborough, Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of Peterborough and 2st Earl of Monmouth
English General, Nobleman and son of John Mordaunt, 1st Viscount Mordaunt
Frederick William Pethick-Lawrence, born Frederick Lawrence
British Political Leader of Woman's Suffrage Movement
Pablo Picasso, fully Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso
Spanish Painter, Sculptor, Printmaker, Ceramicist and Stage Designer who co-founded the Cubist Movement, the invention of Constructed Sculpture and the co-invention of Collage
Cardinal de Retz, Jean Francois-Paul de Gondil
French Churchman, Writer of Memoirs, and Agitator in the Fronde
Gabriel Riesser
German Statesman, Philosopher, Lawyer, Judge and Advocate for Jewish Emancipation of German Jewry
Oliver North, fully Lt. Colonel Oliver Laurence North
American U.S. Marine, National Security Council Aide, Politician, Soldier, Military Historian and Author
Tillie Olsen
American Writer associated with the political turmoil of the 1930s and the first generation of American feminists
Leo Pinsker, aka Yehudah Leib Pinsker, Lev Semyonovich Pinsker
Russian-Polish Physician, Polemicist, Pioneer Jewish Nationalist
Asa Philip Randolph
American Civil Rights Leader and Founder of both the March on Washington Movement and the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
W. D. Ross, fully Sir William David Ross
Scottish Philosopher and Authorknown for work in Ethics
Donn Piatt
American Diplomat, Editor and Writer who in articles, books, plays and poetry attacked corruption in high places
Otto Rank, born Otto Rosenfeld
Austrian Psychoanalyst, Therapist, Writer and Teacher, one of Sigmund Freud's closest colleagues
Thomas Reid
Scottish Philosopher, Founder of the Scottish School of Common Sense, played an integral role in the Scottish Enlightenment
Rutherford D. Rogers
American Librarian, Chief of Personnel at The New York Public Library, Chief of the Reference Department, Deputy Librarian of Congress, Director of Libraries at Stanford University, University Librarian at Yale University