Category: philosophyDocs

Bernhard Ehlen

Bernhard Ehlen

Bernhard Ehlen SJ (born March 5, 1939 in Berlin) is a German Jesuit and founder of Doctors for Developing Countries (now German Doctors). Ehlen entered the Jesuit order in 1958. After graduating from Canisius College in Berlin, he studied philosophy, theology, and education. After his ordination in 1968, he taught religion at Canisius College from 1970 to 1971. He then worked as a youth pastor in Hanover until 1975, as well as a religion teacher at the Bismarck School and Tellkampf School Read more [...]
Friedrich Joseph Laurentius Haass

Friedrich Joseph Laurentius Haass

Dr. Friedrich Joseph Haass (Russian: Фёдор Петрович Гааз, Fyodor Petrovich Gaaz; 10 August 1780 – 28 August [O.S. 16 August] 1853) was the "holy doctor of Moscow".[1][2] Born in Bad Münstereifel, as a member of Moscow's governmental prison committee, he spent 25 years until the end of his life to humanize the penal system.[1] During the last nine years before his death, he spent all of his assets to run a hospital for homeless people. He died in Moscow. Twenty Read more [...]
Stanislav Grof

Stanislav Grof

Stanislav Grof (born July 1, 1931) is a Czech-born American psychiatrist. Grof is one of the principal developers of transpersonal psychology and research into the use of non-ordinary states of consciousness for purposes of psychological healing, deep self-exploration, and obtaining growth and insights into the human psyche. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kORTIfsIPLo Stanislav Grof was born July 1, 1931 in Prague, Czechoslovak Republic.[1] Grof Read more [...]
Ulisse Aldrovandi

Ulisse Aldrovandi

Ulisse Aldrovandi (11 September 1522 – 4 May 1605) was an Italian naturalist, the moving force behind Bologna's botanical garden, one of the first in Europe. Carl Linnaeus and the comte de Buffon reckoned him the father of natural history studies. He is usually referred to, especially in older scientific literature in Latin, as Aldrovandus; his name in Italian is equally given as Aldroandi. Aldrovandi was born in Bologna to Teseo Aldrovandi and his wife, a noble but poor Read more [...]
Carlos Manuel Vieira Reis

Carlos Manuel Vieira Reis

Carlos Manuel Vieira Reis (*19. Januar 1935 in Chaves, Portugal) has been married to Maria de Lurdes Frimer, a teacher. He studied medicine in Coimbra and Lisboa and specialized in Surgery. In addition he studied also Tropical Diseases, Sportive Medicine, Psicology and Philosophy. Carlos Vieira Reis is a multi-interested personality, with several intellectual activities, like historical research, literature, art collector, radio and television activities. He had a weekly radio program, Read more [...]
Gunther Philipp

Gunther Philipp

Gunther Philipp (8 June 1918 – 2 October 2003) was an Austrian film actor, physician and swimmer.[2] From 1949 to 2002 he appeared as an actor in 147 movies for cinema and television, mainly in comic roles. As an author, Philipp wrote 21 film scripts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37YfeJ6MoBY During World War II, Philipp studied acting at the Max Reinhardt Seminar and at the University of Vienna philosophy, majoring in psychology and then medicine. In 1943 Read more [...]
<strong>Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof</strong>

Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof

L. L. Zamenhof[a] (15 December 1859 – 14 April 1917)[b] was an ophthalmologist who lived for most of his life in Warsaw. He is best known as the creator of Esperanto, the most widely used constructed international auxiliary language.[1][2] Zamenhof first developed the Esperanto language in 1873 while still in school. He grew up fascinated by the idea of a world without war and believed that this could happen with the help of a new international Read more [...]
Albert Schweitzer

Albert Schweitzer

Ludwig Philipp Albert Schweitzer OM (German: [ˈalbɛʁt ˈʃvaɪ̯t͡sɐ] (listen); 14 January 1875 – 4 September 1965) was an Alsatian-German[3] polymath. He was a theologian, organist, musicologist, writer, humanitarian, philosopher, and physician. A Lutheran minister, Schweitzer challenged both the secular view of Jesus as depicted by the historical-critical method current at this time, as well as the traditional Christian view. His Read more [...]
Maimonides

Maimonides

Moses ben Maimon[a] (1138–1204), commonly known as Maimonides (/maɪˈmɒnɪdiːz/)[b] and also referred to by the acronym Rambam (Hebrew: רמב״ם),[c] was a medieval Sephardic Jewish philosopher who became one of the most prolific and influential Torah scholars of the Middle Ages. In his time, he was also a preeminent astronomer and physician, serving as the personal physician of Saladin. Born in Córdoba, Almoravid Read more [...]
Michelle Haintz

Michelle Haintz

A Scanner-personality, as many here! Michelle has studied Philosophy, Psychology and Theater sciences.At the Vienna Art School she studied painting, sculpturing and ceramics (2nd prize for ceramics at the 10-year-jubilee-festival of the school) Further she went to the actors school of Prof. Krauss studying acting and direction.Last not least she did medicine at Vienna University  with doctorate degree in 1984. Now she is working as coach and Read more [...]