Martin Luther was born on November 10, 1483, in Eisleben, Germany. To Hans and Margarette Luther, Hans Luther wanted his promising son to have a better life and become a lawyer. At age seven, Martin Luther entered school in Mansfeld. At 14, he went to Magdeburg, where he continued his studies. In 1498, he returned to Eisleben and entered in a school, studying grammar, rhetoric and logic.
Temporarily, he worked as a legal apprentice before deciding to return to Yale University in 1808 as a graduate student where he obtained a Masters of Arts degree. Feeling like he’s calling was to the ministry and after some hesitation he decided to enter the Theological Seminary at Andover in 1811. He became an ordained minister at the age of twenty-seven years old. Gallaudet, working as a traveling salesman, returned to Hartford, Connecticut where he met a prominent physician, Dr. Mason Cogswell and his daughter, Alice Cogswell. Alice Cogswell was believed to be 4 years old at the time (some say she was 9).
Lock gained an excellent education due to his father’s commander, Alexander Popham, who became the local MP and was his patronage. In 1647 Locke attended the Westminster School in London where he lived and received a stipend. At the age of twenty, in 1652, he went to Christ Church in Oxford. Education in Oxford was medieval. Conversations with tutors and between undergraduates at school were in Latin.
James Clerk Maxwell was born in 1931 in Scotland to a family of scientists. The family was also famous for abundant in Fellows of the Royal Society, an elite organization of the top scientists of all disciplines in Great Britain (The Royal Society, 2011). Maxwell began his academic career quite early. He presented his first paper “Oval Curves” to the Royal Society of Edinburgh when he was fourteen (Forfar, 1995). Maxwell began his undergraduate studies at Edinburgh University at age sixteen and entered graduate school at Cambridge University at age nineteen.
He was able to enter Westminster School at the age of thirteen, and from there went to Oxford, where some of the best scientists in England were working at the time. Hooke impressed them with his skills at designing experiments and building equipment, and soon became an assistant to the chemist Robert Boyle. In 1662 Hooke was named Curator of Experiments of the newly formed Royal Society of London -- meaning that he was responsible for demonstrating new experiments at the Society's weekly meetings. He later became Gresham Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, London, where he had a set of rooms and where he lived for the rest of his life. His health deteriorated over the last decade of his life, although one of his biographers wrote that "He was of an active, restless, indefatigable Genius even almost to the last."
Classical economics was widely considered to be founded by Adam Smith in the late 18th century, in his book The Wealth of Nations. (Classical Economics) Adam Smith was a Scottish economist and moral philosopher, The Wealth of Nations was his magnum opus, it laid the foundation of classical economics. The book was a collection of how a nation accumulates wealth; it focused on free markets, the division of labour, and productivity. (The Wealth of Nations) David Ricardo, one of the most influential classical economist in history, was a British businessman and economist. He believed in the concept of comparative advantage, the idea of nations to specialize in specific industries and trade with other nations for products not produced nationally.
WEB DuBois Notes In 1896 DuBois became the first Black person to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard University in history. After teaching at Wilberforce University in Ohio and the University of Pennsylvania, he went on to establish the first department of sociology in the United States at Atlanta University. After graduating from Harvard, where he was the first African American to earn a PhD in histroy, he became a professor of history, sociology and economics at Atlanta University. He was a founding member of both the Niagara Movement and the NAACP, and editor of the Crisis--the NAACP literary organ. Du Bois rose to national prominence as the leader of the Niagara Movement, a group of African American activists who wanted equal rights for
Ivan Pavlov. Ivan Petrovich Pavlov was born on September 14, 1849 in the village of Ryazan, Russia. He was educated first at the church school in Ryazan and then at the theological seminary there. Inspired by the ideas which D. I. Pisarev, the most eminent of the Russian literary critics of the 1860's and I. M. Sechenov, the father of Russian physiology, Pavlov left his religious career and decided to expend his life to science. In 1870 he entered in the physics and mathematics faculty to take the course in natural science.
Anthony Giddens Anthony Giddens was born January 18, 1938 in London to Thomas George and Nell Maude Giddens. He was born into a lower middle class family and was the first in his family to go to college. He began his education at the Minchenden Grammer School in Southgate of London. He then went on to Hull University where he obtained his bachelor’s in sociology and psychology in 1959 and the London School of Economics where he graduated with his masters in sociology in 1961. In 1976, Anthony Giddens received is doctorial degree from the University of Cambridge and went on to teach at different colleges.
Critically assess Descartes view of the soul. René Descartes, who was born in 1596 in France was very much a product of the French renaissance, was greatly influenced by Aristotle, a Greek philosopher and scientist born in the city of Stagirus, in 384 BCE, enjoying a 17 year stint at Plato’s Academy. Descartes was also greatly influenced by the Christian world view, which is the framework of ideas and beliefs through which a Christian can use to interpret the world around them and ways in which to interact with it. He sought to lay a new foundation for philosophy with the mathematical method. Most famous for his quote, “I think therefore I am”, Descartes was a respected philosopher, mathematician and writer in the 17th century.