Biography

Origins and Form of the Book A Dual Autobiography is a joint memoir by the American historian and…

Will Durant's lively intellectual history guides general readers through the great Western philosophers from Plato to the American…

The Peano–Couturat letters, 1896–1914, edited by Luciano and Roero, document a major scholarly exchange in logic and mathematics.

Stephen Allott presents the life and letters of Alcuin of York, the Anglo-Saxon scholar who shaped learning at…

Alcuin's Latin hagiography of St Willibrord, the Northumbrian missionary bishop who evangelized the Frisians and organized the early…

Letters by Alcuin collects over 300 Latin letters blending pious counsel, friendship, and advice to Charlemagne and churchmen.

William Penn's promotional tract describes Pennsylvania's land, climate, and terms of settlement to encourage English readers to emigrate…

A four-part edition of Schleiermacher's letters tracing his inner development from Moravian childhood to his 1804 appointment at…

Overview of the Regula Salvatoris The Rule of the Savior (Regula Salvatoris) is the monastic rule attributed to…

Eduard Bernstein's memorial biography of Ignaz Auer, the German Social Democratic organizer who devoted his life to bridging…

A Russian collection of Ferdinand Lassalle's writings, edited with an appended biographical essay by Eduard Bernstein on Lassalle's…

Eduard Bernstein's political appraisal of Ferdinand Lassalle as a pivotal figure in the emergence of an independent German…

Porphyry’s early fourth-century Greek memoir introduces Plotinus and defends the edition of his treatises assembled after his master’s…

Porphyry’s contribution is the short Greek philosophical biography summarized here.

Diogenes Laërtius's Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers is the chief ancient source for the history of Greek…