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Franz Kafka
An ordinary clerk who worked for a insurance company ( Prague) for the rest of his life. During his writing period only Max Brod ( best friend) and the his circle of friends noticed his writing ability on his short stories. His works were saved and published due to his friend Brod.
Now Kafka is considered to be one of the most important and influential writers of the 20th century.
Most important and famous stories are: The Trial, The Metamorphosis.The Judgement,The Castle,The Penal Colony,Amerika,Letter to his Father; among other works.
Franz Kafka (1883-1924).
" I need solitude for my writing; not like a hermit- that wouldn't be enough- but like a dead man."
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William Clifford
Died very young, yet produced the algebra which would be the later springboard for Einstein, and wrote the Ethics of Belief, a philosophical tract that (despite a clumsy and ineffective retort by William James) is still unrefuted in its brilliant simplicity.
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Van Gogh
Dutch Impressionist.
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Antonin Artaud
French theatre practitioner, writer and man of letters. Utter genius, addict, with mediochre acclaim in his lifetime and descent into insanity - his last years in an insane asylum. Wrote these words:
So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair.
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J.S Bach
The German Composer (1685-1750) was not widely recognized until the 19th century by Felix Mendelssohn.
Some of his great works: The Brandenburg concerts,The Mass in B minor, his Cantatas,St. Matthew Passion,the Toccata and Fugue in D minor.
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Nikola Tesla
An Inventor, mechanical engineer and electrical engineer. Born in 1856, in Smiljan, Austrian
Empire.
In 1915. he shared the Nobel Prize with Edison for Physics. For unclear reasons neither men
received the prize,
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Percy Lavan Julian
An African American a research chemist. Born in Alabama, 1899 He became the first African American to received a doctorate in chemistry.
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Georg Büchner
With his early nineteenth-century lost or unproduced plays "Danton's Death", "Leonce and Lena", and "Woyzeck", Georg Büchner created twentieth-century theatre.
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Avicenna
Born in Persia in 980. Philosopher and Physician.Also a Historian,Astronomer and many other Fields.
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Carl Fredrich Gauss
A mathematician, Physicist, Jack-of-all-trades sort of fellow, Gauss (1777-1855), although well known within closed circles, was fully insufficiently recognized during his lifetime.
Gauss is today called "The Prince of Mathematics" and may be the most intelligent person who ever lived.
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