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This monk and theologian sparked the Protestant Reformation by posting his 95 Theses in 1517.
Who is Martin Luther?
In The Interpretation of Dreams, he introduced the idea of the unconscious mind.
Who is Sigmund Freud.
On October 31, 1517, this monk allegedly nailed his 95 Theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, which marked the beginning of the Reformation.
Who was Martin Luther?
In this 1848 work, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote "Workers of the World unite. You have nothing to lose but your chains!"
What is The Communist Manifesto?
He smoked about 20 cigars a day, calling them his "work equipment."
Who is Sigmund Freud?
Born in Trier, he wrote The Communist Manifesto alongside Friedrich Engels.
Who is Karl Marx?
This philosopher is known for his concept of the "Categorical Imperative" in ethics.
Who is Immanuel Kant?
Karl Marx lived in this century.
What is the 19th century?
This 1883 book by Nietzsche features the character Zarathustra preaching to his disciples.
What is Thus Spoke Zarathustra?
The superstar "Minnesänger" of his day, he was a master of the "diss track." He used his songs to attack the Pope and support various emperors.
Who was Walther von der Vogelweide?
Known for his dark, artistic woodcuts and engravings, he was a famous German Renaissance painter.
Who is Albrecht Dürer?
He coined the phrase "God is dead" and argued for the concept of Übermensch.
Who is Friedrich Nietzsche?
The year of the first publication of the Communist Manifesto which was also the year in which theen the first German revolution took place.
What was 1848?
Schopenhauer’s magnum opus, arguing that the world is driven by a blind, irrational force.
What is The World as Will and Representation?
He was one of the first artists to recognize the power of branding. He fought legal battles in Venice to protect his "AD" monogram from being forged, making it one of the earliest "trademark" disputes in history.
Who was Albrecht Dürer?
This 12th-century Benedictine abbess was also a composer, mystic, and polymath.
Who is Hildegard von Bingen?
This philosopher's work Being and Time introduced the concept of Dasein.
Who is Martin Heidegger?
The German philosopher Hannah Arendt left Germany in this year, which was also the year in which Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany.
What was 1933.
This work, written in the trenches of WWI, was the only book Wittgenstein published in his lifetime.
What is Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus?
This philosopher gave away all his money and went to teach in an elementary school in a small village.
Who is Ludwig Wittgenstein?
A student of Heidegger, she is famous for her work on political theory and the "banality of evil".
Who is Hannah Arendt?
He developed the phenomenological method that focuses on the firsthand experience of a phenomenon independent of preconceived assumptions, scientific theories, or the "natural attitude" that takes the objective existence of the world for granted.
Who is Edmund Husserl?
The Battle of Teutoburg Forest took place in this year.
What is 9 AD?
This 10th-century canoness wrote six plays, emulating Terence to bring Christian themes to literature.
Who is Roswitha von Gandersheim?
This philosopher was so categorically punctual that the citizens of his hometown, Königsberg, reportedly set their watches by his daily afternoon walks.
Who is Immanuel Kant?