Historical figures in Egypt
The atlas holds 11 people and 11 moments here, from 517 BC to 1996. The most recorded lives are Jorge Luis Borges, Seneca the Younger and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Among them Writers, Educators and Philosophers, across the Ottoman Empire and the Space Age.
Notable people
Al-Farabi
in 948
1 moment here
Abu Nasr al-Farabi was an early Islamic philosopher, logician, and music theorist. The surviving reliable evidence for his movements is sparse: it…
Darius the Great
in 517 BC
1 moment here
Darius I, commonly called Darius the Great, was Achaemenid king of kings from 522 to 486 BCE.…
Jorge Luis Borges
in 1978
1 moment here
Argentine writer, poet, essayist, translator, lecturer, librarian, and critic. Borges was born in Buenos Aires, lived in Switzerland and Spain during…
Miguel Ángel Asturias
in 1932
1 moment here
Guatemalan poet-diplomat, novelist, playwright, journalist, and 1967 Nobel laureate. Asturias’s documented life moved between Guatemala, Europe,…
Muhammad al-Bukhari
in 832
1 moment here
Muhammad ibn Isma'il al-Bukhari (810–870) was a hadith scholar from Bukhara whose travels for study, teaching, and transmission ranged across Central…
Nawal El Saadawi
in 1996
1 moment here
Egyptian physician, psychiatrist, feminist writer, and activist whose life and work challenged patriarchal authority, gender-based violence,…
Ralph Waldo Emerson
in 1872
1 moment here
American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, Unitarian minister, poet, abolitionist, and leading figure in Transcendentalism.…
Ronald Ross
in 1913
1 moment here
British physician, malariologist, mathematician, writer, and 1902 Nobel laureate. Ross established the mosquito’s role in malaria transmission…
Selma Lagerlöf
in 1899
1 moment here
Swedish writer, teacher, Nobel laureate, and women’s-suffrage speaker. Lagerlöf was born at Mårbacka in Värmland, trained in Stockholm, taught in…
Seneca the Younger
in 20
1 moment here
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, commonly called Seneca the Younger, was a Roman Stoic philosopher, writer, and statesman.…
Zhou Enlai
in 1963
1 moment here
Chinese revolutionary, statesman, and diplomat who served as the first premier of the People’s Republic of China from 1949 until his death.…
Moments
- 517 BC Egyptian royal visit and pacification Darius the Great
- 20 Convalescence with his aunt Seneca the Younger
- 832 Study visit to Egypt Muhammad al-Bukhari
- 948 Visit to Egypt Al-Farabi
- 1872 Arrives in Egypt Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 1899 Middle Eastern journey: Egypt Selma Lagerlöf
- 1913 Transit through Egypt Ronald Ross
- 1932 Journey through Egypt Miguel Ángel Asturias
- 1963 Meeting with Nasser in Egypt Zhou Enlai
- 1978 Travel in Egypt Jorge Luis Borges
- 1996 Return to Egypt Nawal El Saadawi