Giorgos Chimonas

Giorgos Chimonas

Giorgos Chimonas (Kavala, March 17, 1938 – Paris, February 27, 2000) was a Greek prose writer, translator and psychiatrist who became known and distinguished in the field of Greek literature in the 1960s. Giorgos Himonas was born in Kavala in 1938 and grew up in Thessaloniki. There he studied medicine. He continued his studies in Paris, specializing in psychiatry and neurolinguistics. After completing his studies, he returned to Greece and lived in Athens. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIkyuNmRSfw In Read more [...]
Pavlos Nirvanas

Pavlos Nirvanas

Pavlos Nirvanas (Greek: Parasloός Niρβάνας, * 1866 in Mariupol, Russian Empire; † 28 November 1937 in Athens, Greece) was a Greek writer whose real name was Petros K. Apostolidis. Nirvanas' father came from Skopelos, his mother from Chios. As a child, Pavlos Nirvanas moved from his then Russian hometown to Greece and lived in Piraeus. He studied medicine at the University of Athens and graduated in 1890. He joined the Navy and rose to the rank of senior physician (γενικός Read more [...]
Christian Wilhelm Schenk

Christian Wilhelm Schenk

Christian Wilhelm Schenk (born November 11, 1951 in Brașov, People's Republic of Romania) is a German physician, poet, essayist, translator, and publisher from the Transylvanian Saxon community. Christian W. Schenk grew up in a small mining settlement near Brașov and was raised trilingually (German, Hungarian, and Romanian). His father is German, his mother Hungarian. At the end of the 1950s, he made his first attempts at poetry, which led to his first publication in 1961: a poem in Read more [...]
Gilberto Lacchia

Gilberto Lacchia

Gilberto Lacchia is professional TranslatorDoc May 2010 - Certificate of Chinese Proficiency (new HSK level 4 - European CEF level B2) Score 201May 2009 - Certificate of Chinese Proficiency HSK Test (Basic) - Score 173 (B)2009-2010 Chinese language course (elementary), www.guavatalk.com)2008-2009 Chinese language course (basic)1981 - Scientific High School Diploma (56/60) (English language and literature being subject of the examination)German Language Study (Deutsch Institut, Read more [...]
Nadeem Elyas

Nadeem Elyas

Nadeem Elyas (Arabic: Nadīm Ilyās; born September 1, 1945 in Mecca) is a Saudi Arabian Islamic scholar and physician. He served as chairman of the Central Council of Muslims in Germany from 1994 to 2006. Elyas is a Sunni Muslim of Hanafi persuasion. Elyas left Saudi Arabia in 1964, studied medicine and Islamic studies in Germany, and practiced as a gynecologist. He lives in Eschweiler (North Rhine-Westphalia), is married, and has four children, including the comedian Ususmango, who became Read more [...]
al-Kindi

al-Kindi

Abū Yūsuf Yaʻqūb ibn ʼIsḥāq aṣ-Ṣabbāḥ al-Kindī (/ælˈkɪndi/; Arabic: أبو يوسف يعقوب بن إسحاق الصبّاح الكندي; Latin: Alkindus; c. 801–873 AD) was an Arab Muslim polymath active as a philosopher, mathematician, physician, and music theorist. Al-Kindi was the first of the Islamic peripatetic philosophers, and is hailed as the "father of Arab philosophy".[4][5][6] Al-Kindi was born in Kufa and educated in Baghdad.[7] He Read more [...]
Abu Bakr al-Razi

Abu Bakr al-Razi

Abū Bakr al-Rāzī, also known as Rhazes[a] (full name: أبو بکر محمد بن زکریاء الرازي, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakariyyāʾ al-Rāzī),[b] c. 864 or 865–925 or 935 CE,[c] was a Persian physician, philosopher and alchemist who lived during the Islamic Golden Age. He is widely regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of medicine,[1] and also wrote on logic, astronomy and grammar.[2] He Read more [...]
Werner Bartens

Werner Bartens

Werner Bartens (born 11 July 1966 in Göttingen) is a German physician, historian, science journalist and non-fiction author. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRsTdxQYYjc Werner Bartens was born the second child of Werner Bartens and his wife Luise, née Marienhagen, in Göttingen and grew up in Niedernjesa. He attended primary school in Reinhausen and then the Hainberg-Gymnasium in Göttingen, where he graduated from high school in 1985. From 1985 to 1993, Bartens studied medicine, history, Read more [...]
Nikolaus Kopernikus

Nikolaus Kopernikus

Nicolaus Copernicus (/koʊˈpɜːrnɪkəs, kə-/;[2][3][4] Polish: Mikołaj Kopernik;[b] Middle Low German: Niklas Koppernigk, German: Nikolaus Kopernikus; 19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance polymath, active as a mathematician, astronomer, and Catholic canon, who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at its center. In all likelihood, Copernicus developed Read more [...]