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Born 1544 • Ahmedabad • India
Died c.1603 • India
Founder Dadu Panth
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Jnanadeva
Indian poet
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Namdev
Indian poet
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Mahadevi
Hindu poet-saint
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Lalla Ded
Hindu poet-saint
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Purandaradasa
Indian poet and composer
Huxley, Thomas Henry
Thomas Henry Huxley
British biologist
Émile Durkheim
Émile Durkheim
French social scientist
Vigny, lithograph by Antoine Maurin, 1832
Alfred-Victor, count de Vigny
French author
Henri Bergson
Henri Bergson
French philosopher
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Ernest Renan
French scholar
Rudolf Otto
Rudolf Otto
German philosopher and theologian
Mircea Eliade
Mircea Eliade
Romanian religious historian and author
Ahura Mazdā
Zarathushtra
Iranian prophet
Max Müller
Max Müller
German scholar
Robert D. Putnam
Robert D. Putnam
American political scientist
Portrait of Sholem Asch around 1957, showing him with gray hair, a mustache, and wearing a suit and bow tie.
Sholem Asch
American writer
Constant, detail of an oil painting by Hercule des Roches, c. 1830; in the Musée Carnavalet, Paris
Benjamin Constant
French author
Simone Weil.
Simone Weil
French philosopher
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Martin E. Marty
American historian of religion
Quinet, oil painting by Sebastien-Melchior Cornu, 1833; in the Musee Carnavalet, Paris
Edgar Quinet
French historian and poet