What can be passed on forever to the world, in addition to great human nature, is the brilliance of thought.
Liang Qichao said that reading celebrity biographies can best stimulate people's ambition, and the wisdom of receiving things has increased a lot, so the ancients used it to read history.
Roman Roland wrote in the preface to The Biography of Beethoven: "Do not be too grumpy, the best of mankind is with you." Draw on their courage as our nourishment! ”
Today Xiaobian recommends 50 biographies of world celebrities for everyone,
Before you can read a masterpiece, start by getting to know the celebrity.
1. The Biography of Constantine
The great emperors of the history of the world
Creation of the Byzantine Empire
The course of changing the entire history of the world
He founded the Byzantine Empire, pioneered the model of christianity in the Roman Empire, and laid the foundations of post-European, especially medieval European civilization.
2. Biography of the Twelve Emperors of Rome
About the life of the first 12 heads of the Roman Empire
The book records the life of the first 12 heads of state of the Roman Empire, including the biographies of Julius, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Galpa, Otto, Titus, and Domitian.
3. Memoirs of Babur
Babur was not only a famous monarch
And a poet and a master of Chagatai
His memoirs are first-hand accounts of the history of Central Asia and India from the 15th to the 16th centuries
4. Saint Louis (all two volumes)
The legendary life of King Louis IX of France in the 13th century, who was canonized as a "saint" by the Church of Christ in Rome
According to the 1996 edition of the French publishing house Galima
5. The Biography of Charlemagne
The legendary career of the "Father of Europe"
The prototype of the Peach K character on a French playing card
6. "Making Louis XIV"
Explore the history of the production, dissemination and reception of the "Sun King" Louis XIV public image
The most handsome, greatest and most artistic king in French history, a role model for the absolute monarchs of Europe.
A book of the best in the field of history and culture suitable for reading by the general public.
7. The Biography of Charles XII
Follow Voltaire's pen to see the legendary life of King Charles XII of Sweden
This book combines historical truth and literary description in one furnace, and "The Age of Louis XIV" and "The Theory of Customs" are listed by historians as Voltaire's three major historical masterpieces.
8. The Biography of Freud
A work that combines psychoanalysis, personal biography, and historical times
Winner of the National Book Award
The most comprehensive, complete, and delicate biography of Freud to date; the master of the master's pen, written for our time.
—The Washington Post
9. Spinoza Biography
One of the three major rationalists recognized in Western philosophy
On a par with Descartes and Leibniz
The book won the Korret Jewish Book Award
10. The Biography of Faulkner (Vol. 1 and 2)
"He made a powerful and artistically unparalleled contribution to the contemporary American novel"
Winner of the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature
The masters I admire are two very different North American novelists, and I have not let go of their works as long as they have been published, but I do not regard them as complementary readings, but two very different forms of literary creation. One was William Faulkner and the other was Hemingway.
—García Márquez, 1982 Nobel Laureate in Literature
The greatest influence on my literary creation was the philosophical ideas of Jean-Paul Sartre and the literary techniques of Faulkner.
—2010 Nobel Laureate in Literature Llosa
11. Captain Cook's Diary: Effort's Voyage 1768-1771
Cook "discovered" Australia
This allowed the world map to expand by nearly 8 million square kilometers of land
Captain Cook's Diary describes Captain Cook's voyages to New Zealand and Australia, and is a great voyage he made under the Endeavour, which Captain Cook himself recorded day by day.
Biography of Socrates by A.E. Taylor
Biography of Hegel by Terry Pinkard
Biography of Jaspers [de] by Hans Sanier
Russell's Autobiography (all three volumes) by Bertrand Russell
Tocqueville Biography by Larry Sidentop
Hayek's Commentary by Bruce Caldwell
Biography of Adam Smith by John Ray
Edward Sapier: Linguist, Anthropologist, And Humanist [plus] Regina Darnell
The Tale of Whitehead (all two volumes) [American] Victor Lowe
Fukuzawa Yukichi Autobiography [Japanese] Fukuzawa Yukiyoshi
12. The Biography of Socrates
Founder of Western political philosophy and ethics
The one who pulls philosophy back from heaven to earth
One of the two historical figures who have had the deepest influence on Western civilization
(The other is Jesus centuries later)
Know yourself.
A life without thinking is not worth living.
- Socrates
13. The Biography of Hegel
His ideas marked the culmination of the German idealistic philosophical movement of the 19th century
A monument in the history of human philosophy
The most complete and credible biography of Hegel to date
"The system of law is the kingdom of freedom that is realized"
"The strength of the state lies in the unity of its universal ultimate purpose and the special interests of the individual, that is, how many obligations the individual has to the state, and at the same time how many rights he enjoys."
Hegel always understands things from the opposite side. He said that the end is the end precisely because it is also the beginning!
In fact, if we understand Hegel's death, we can understand the meaning of his life more clearly.
14. The Biography of Jaspers
Famous German philosopher of the twentieth century
Relationships with contemporaries and the achievements of Jaspers's ideas
15. Russell's Autobiography
What should a person live for?
The desire for love, the quest for knowledge, and the irrepressible compassion for human suffering have dominated my life with these three pure but incomparably strong passions.
16. The Biography of Tocqueville
Tocqueville as the epitome of democracy
No one can discuss the advantages and disadvantages of democracy more comprehensively than he did
"In the United States, free sentiment creates a free system; in France, it must be a free system that creates a free populace."
--Tocqueville
17. Hayek's Commentary
"Prophets of the 20th Century"
One of the greatest thinkers
Hayek is a mystery
He won the Nobel Prize in Economics
But his academic contributions went far beyond economics
18. The Biography of Adam Smith
Great thinker of the 18th century and originator of economics
The founder of the British classical political economy system
The father of modern economics
Didn't know Adam Smith
Not reading The Wealth of Nations and The Theory of Moral Sentiments
It is difficult to understand the market and human nature
"2015 Hexun Chinese Financial Book Award" · Biography Award
One of the most detailed and comprehensive biographies of Adam Smith
19. Edward Sapir – Linguist, Anthropologist, Humanist
An interdisciplinary genius scholar
One of the founders of the school of cultural personality
Genius linguist, anthropologist, humanist, master of ideas and architects
One of the first linguists to combine linguistics and anthropology
"Language Influences the Formation of Human Conceptual Systems About the Real World"
"The real world is largely based on the linguistic habits of groups"
The "Sapir-Wolf hypothesis": How deep is the relationship between language and culture and thinking?
20. The Tale of Whitehead (all two volumes)
Whitehead student
Whitehead research authority
Victor Low took twenty years
Wrote important works
Deeply and comprehensively showed to the world
Whitehead was a philosopher of great ingenuity
A lifetime of experience and its academic contributions
The book is divided into two volumes, the first of which consists of fifteen chapters, describing Whitehead's life and career development from 1861 to 1910. The second volume, consisting of thirteen chapters, describes the academic development of Whitehead from 1910 to 1947.
21. The Autobiography of Fukuzawa Yukichi
"Japanese Voltaire"
An outstanding Enlightenment thinker in modern Japan
Author of "Persuasion Chapter" and "Introduction to civilization theory" and founder of Keio Yoshihku
He played a huge role in promoting the spread of Western Enlightenment ideas in Japan and the transformation of Japanese society
Cicero Biography by Elizabeth Rosen
Mara Biography [Su] A Levandowski
Jefferson's Autobiography [American] by Thomas Jefferson
Lincoln Biography [American] Benjamin by P. Thomas
Roosevelt: The Warrior of Freedom (1940-1945) by James McGregor Burns
By Peter the Great [Soviet Union] B.B Mavrogin
Princess Sissi [Au] Brigitte Haman
Biography of Queen Victoria [English] by Ridun Stryche
Robespierre biography by Gérard Walter
Commentary on Caesar [Soviet Union] by Shea LeUtchenko
Biography of Napoleon [Soviet Union] by Ye Vi Tarle
22. The Biography of Cicero
Famous Roman statesman, orator, orator, jurist and philosopher
He had a profound influence on European philosophy and political science
Cicero "expanded the spiritual realm of the Romans"
The most detailed biography of Cicero's life Chinese
"Where is the dignity without honesty"
"Those who have courage must be full of faith in their hearts"
"The meaning of the law is to be applicable and valid to all"
"Nothing makes us sublime more than recognizing that we were born for justice"
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