He was born in 1766 in the south of England into a wealthy family. His father is close to the philosophers David Hume and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. After studying at Jesus College in Cambridge, he became an Anglican pastor. He noted the increase in poverty and in 1798 published his Essay on the princip
Louis is the younger brother of Antoine de Bourbon and therefore the uncle of the future Henri IV. He is at the origin of the House of Condé, a very powerful line in France until the 19th century. He made a military career under Henri II (defeat of Saint-Quentin in 1557). Under François II, he becam
Eldest son of Robert Guiscard, Bohémond was one of the leaders of the First Crusade. He seized Antioch on June 2, 1098. He could not defend his Syrian principality for long against the double threat of the Byzantines and the Turks. Captured by the Emir of Sivas, he remained a prisoner from 1100 to 1
Austrian physicist, Marietta Blau (1894 – 1970) received several awards for his pioneering work on photographic methods of particle detection. Physicist Daughter of Florentine Goldzweig and Mayer Blau, a lawyer, Marietta Blau was born into a middle-class Jewish family in Vienna on April 29, 1894