one of the painters of the Barbizon school, and is considered an important precursor of impressionism.

a French chemist known for his discoveries of the chemical elements gallium, samarium and dysprosium.

a German mathematician. Skilled in applied mathematics, he trained German army officers in ballistics

a Russian novelist, poet, religious thinker, and literary critic. A seminal figure of the Silver Age of Russian Poetry, regarded as a co-founder of the Symbolist movement

a German philosopher and one of the central Enlightenment thinkers.

a Norwegian folklorist, bishop, poet, and author.