Biographies

Joseph Black was a Scottish chemist and physician, known for his discovery of specific heat, latent heat, magnesium and carbon dioxide.

Lycurgus was an ancient Greek politician to whom the reforms of the state system of Sparta are attributed.

Franz Kafka was a German-language writer.

Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo – Argentine writer, poet and essayist.

Jane Austen, born on December 16, 1775 in Steventon, Hampshire, England, and died on July 18, 1817 in Winchester, Hampshire, was an English novelist and writer.

Charles Dickens, born in Landport, near Portsmouth, Hampshire, a county on the south coast of England, on February 7, 1812 and died at Gad’s Hill Place in Higham, Kent, on June 9, 1870, is considered the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish writer, poet and playwright.

Leo Tolstoy, French name of Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, born on August 28, 1828 in Iasnaya Poliana, and died on November 7, 1910 in Astapovo, is a Russian writer.

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky is a Russian writer, thinker, philosopher and publicist.

Infant Don Juan of Austria, born on February 24, 1545 or 1547 and died on October 1, 1578 in Bouge, near Namur, was a Spanish prince of the Habsburg family – illegitimate son of Charles V – who had a military career in the armies of his half-brother Philip II and was governor of the Netherlands from 1576 to 1578.