Philosophers in Geneva

The atlas holds 6 people and 17 moments here, from 1579 to 1985. The most recorded lives are Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Voltaire and Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
from 1712 to 1754
6 moments here
Genevan philosopher, writer, composer, and a major figure of the European Enlightenment. Rousseau’s documented movements ranged across Geneva, Savoy,…
Voltaire
from 1754 to 1761
5 moments here
François-Marie Arouet, known as Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, historian, dramatist, and philosopher.…
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
from 1862 to 1868
2 moments here
Russian novelist, journalist, essayist, and former military engineer whose life moved between Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Siberian imprisonment and…
Raisa Gorbacheva
in 1985
2 moments here
Soviet and Russian activist, philanthropist, lecturer, and public figure; wife of Mikhail Gorbachev.…
Adam Smith
in 1765
1 moment here
Scottish moral philosopher and political economist of the Scottish Enlightenment, author of The Theory of Moral Sentiments and An Inquiry into the…
Giordano Bruno
in 1579
1 moment here
Italian Renaissance philosopher, Dominican friar, writer, and cosmological theorist. Born at Nola, Bruno studied and lived in Italy, Switzerland,…