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Adamantios Korais

Adamantios Korais

Adamantios Korais (Greek: Αδαμάντιος Κοραής – Adamántios Koraís, also Koraés; April 27, 1748 in Smyrna, Asia Minor, Ottoman Empire – April 6, 1833 in Paris) was a Greek scholar and writer. Korais is considered a reformer of Greek literature. Korais was born in Smyrna, but his father came from the island of Chios, and Korais felt a strong connection to the island. Korais graduated from the Evangelical School of Smyrna and spent most of his life not in Greece, but Read more [...]
Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (May 22, 1859 in Edinburgh, Scotland – July 7, 1930 in Crowborough, Sussex, England) was a British physician and author. He wrote about the adventures of Sherlock Holmes and his friend Dr. Watson. He is also known for the character Challenger from his novel The Lost World, which served as the basis for numerous films and a television series. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7toqzP16H4c In 1880, Doyle traveled to the Arctic as a ship's doctor on the whaler Read more [...]
Andreas Karkavitsas

Andreas Karkavitsas

Andreas Karkavitsas or Carcavitsas (Greek: Ανδρέας Καρκαβίτσας; Lechaina, 1866 – Marousi, October 10, 1922) was a Greek novelist. He was a naturalist, like Alexandros Papadiamantis. He was born in 1866 in the north-west Peloponnese, in the town of Lechaina in Elis. He studied medicine. As an army doctor, he travelled across a great range of villages and settlements, from which he recorded traditions and legends. Read more [...]
William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams (September 17, 1883, Rutherford, New Jersey – March 4, 1963, ibid.), often abbreviated to WCW, was an American physician and poet. Williams' life quickly became entirely centered – apart from his travels in Europe – in his hometown of Rutherford, New Jersey, where he practiced medicine (M.D.) since 1910. In addition to his writing, Williams was a long-time physician, practicing both pediatrics and general medicine. He was affiliated with Passaic General Hospital, Read more [...]
Irvin D. Yalom

Irvin D. Yalom

Irvin David Yalom (born June 13, 1931 in Washington, D.C.) is an American psychoanalyst, psychotherapist, psychiatrist, and writer. He is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at Stanford University and the author of numerous academic books and novels. Yalom is considered the most important living representative of existential psychotherapy. He is the recipient of the 2009 International Sigmund Freud Prize for Psychotherapy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx9J8j2Xz0g The book Every Day a Read more [...]
Marcos Aguini

Marcos Aguini

Marcos Aguinis (born January 15, 1935 in Córdoba, Argentina) is an Argentine neurosurgeon and writer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p9cCMkk46o Aguinis' father immigrated to Buenos Aires from Bessarabia in 1928 and soon moved in with relatives living in Cruz del Eje in the province of Córdoba. As a schoolchild, Marcos Aguinis suffered discrimination from classmates and some teachers because of his Jewish heritage. During the persecution of Jews in Germany, all of his remaining family Read more [...]
Manolis Anagnostakis

Manolis Anagnostakis

Manolis Anagnostakis (Greek: Μανώλης Αναγνωστάκης; * 10 March 1925 in Thessaloniki – 22 June 2005 in Athens) was a Greek existentialist poet. Leben https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jACb97OSkM&list=PLBCyD-wapubOIugG_gysUX-Y_kVSZHtlQ Anagnostakis initially studied medicine at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and later practiced as a radiologist. During World War II and the subsequent civil wars, he was an active member of the resistance movement. After Read more [...]
Wassili Pawlowitsch Aksjonow

Wassili Pawlowitsch Aksjonow

Vasily Pavlovich Aksyonov (Russian: Василий Павлович Аксёнов, scientific transliteration: Vasilij Pavlovič Aksënov, born August 20, 1932 in Kazan; died July 6, 2009 in Moscow) was a Russian writer. He began his career in the Soviet Union and later had to emigrate to the United States. Wassili Aksjonow (left) with Viktor Nekrasov (in front of the equestrian statue of Joan of Arc, Place du Martroi, Orléans, 1983) From 1956 to 1960, he worked as a doctor, but had Read more [...]
Wolfram Hackel

Wolfram Hackel

Wolfram Hackel (born April 25, 1942) is a German physician and organ researcher. Hausorgel von Dr. Wolfram Hackel in Dresden/Plauen Wolfram Hackel studied medicine. In 1967, he received his doctorate from the Medical Academy in Dresden. He then ran a urology practice in Dresden-Plauen as a specialist. Wolfram Hackel has published works on organs and churches since the 1970s. He soon became one of Saxony's most important organ researchers. Wolfram Hackel is a long-standing member Read more [...]
Wolfgang Adelung

Wolfgang Adelung

Wolfgang Adelung (1 October 1920 in Berlin; 15 November 1994 in Singen, Baden-Württemberg) was a German physician and organ researcher. Wolfgang Adelung studied medicine. He received his doctorate in Freiburg in 1948. Later, he ran a dermatology practice in Singen (Hohentwiel). Adelung also became an organist and was one of the most important members of the Society of Organ Friends during his time. In 1952, he co-founded its organ journal, Ars Organi. He subsequently became editor (1957–1972), Read more [...]