George John Romanes FRS was a Canadian-Scots evolutionary biologist and physiologist who laid the foundation of what he called comparative psychology, postulating a similarity of cognitive processes and mechanisms between humans and other animals.
George John Romanes war ein britischer Evolutionsbiologie. Er legte den Grundstein für die Tierpsychologie und sagte Ähnlichkeiten zwischen den kognitiven Prozessen bei Menschen und Tieren voraus, schrieb Tieren jedoch auch in weit stärkerem Maß menschliche Eigenschaften zu als dies wissenschaftlich gesichert war (Anthropomorphismus).
George Edward Bateman Saintsbury, FBA, was an English critic, literary historian, editor, teacher, and wine connoisseur. He is regarded as a highly influential critic of the late 19th and early 20th century.
George Sand [ʒɔʁʒ sɑ̃d], nom de plume d'Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin de Francueil, par mariage baronne Dudevant, est une romancière, dramaturge, épistolière, critique littéraire et journaliste française, née le 1er juillet 1804 à Paris et morte le 8 juin 1876 au château de Nohant-Vic. Elle compte parmi les écrivains les plus prolifiques, avec plus de 70 romans à son actif et 50 volumes d'œuvres diverses dont des nouvelles, des contes, des pièces de théâtre et des textes politiques.
Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin de Francueil, best known by her pen name George Sand, was a French novelist, memoirist and journalist. One of the most popular writers in Europe in her lifetime, being more renowned than either Victor Hugo or Honoré de Balzac in England in the 1830s and 1840s, Sand is recognised as one of the most notable writers of the European Romantic era, with more than 50 volumes of various works to her credit, including tales, plays and political texts, alongside her 70 novels.
Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás, known in English as George Santayana, was a Spanish-American philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist. Born in Spain, Santayana was raised and educated in the US from the age of eight and identified himself as an American, although he always retained a valid Spanish passport. At the age of 48, Santayana left his position at Harvard and returned to Europe permanently.
