Published “IL28B is associated with response to chronic hepatitis C interferon-α and ribavirin therapy” in Nature Genetics — cited 1,555 times.
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Oswald Spengler
Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spengler was a German polymath whose areas of interest included history, philosophy, mathematics, science, and art, as well as their relation to his organic theory of history. He is best known for his two-volume work The Decline of the West, published in 1918 and 1922, covering human history. Spengler's model of history postulates that human cultures and civilizations are a…
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science · German polymath (1880–1936) · historian · philosopher · sociologist · mathematician · writer · philologist · opinion journalist · philosopher of culture · also Oswald Spengler, Spengler
Born 29 May 1880 · Died 8 May 1936 · Q57112
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Published “An Association between Air Pollution and Mortality in Six U.S. Cities” in New England Journal of Medicine — cited 5,973 times.
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1936· 2 entries
Died 1936-05-08.
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“This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.”
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1934· 1 entry
Spengler pronounced the funeral oration for one of the victims of the Night of the Long Knives and retired in 1935 from the board of the highly influential Nietzsche Archive which was viewed as opposition to the regime
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1933· 2 entries
And after a lengthy discussion remained unimpressed, saying that Germany did not need "a heroic tenor but a real hero"
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Was a bestseller, but was later banned for its critique of Nazism
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1932· 1 entry
Spengler found the Führer vulgar
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1931· 1 entry
Spengler published Man and Technics, which warned against the dangers of technology and industrialism to culture
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1924· 1 entry
Following the social-economic upheaval and hyperinflation, Spengler entered politics in an effort to bring Reichswehr General Hans von Seeckt to power as the country's leader
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1923· 1 entry
And hyperinflation, seemed to prove Spengler right
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1914· 1 entry
But the first edition was published in the summer of 1918, shortly before the end of World War I
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1911· 1 entry
Following his mother's death, Spengler moved to Munich, where he lived for the rest of his life
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1905· 1 entry
Spengler suffered a nervous breakdown
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1903· 1 entry
Failed his doctoral thesis on Heraclitus—titled Der metaphysische Grundgedanke der heraklitischen Philosophie (The Fundamental Metaphysical Thought of the Heraclitean Philosophy) and conducted under the direction of A
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1901· 1 entry
Spengler attended the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, the Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin, and the University of Halle as a private scholar, taking courses in a wide range of subjects
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1880· 1 entry
Born 1880-05-29.
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1879· 1 entry
When his mother tried to move a heavy laundry basket, and died at the age of three weeks
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1837· 1 entry
Married Katharina Kirchner (1813–1873), a solo dancer from a Munich Catholic family; the second of their four daughters was Spengler's mother
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