List of aphorists
The following list contains the authors of aphorisms with German Wikipedia articles, broken down chronologically by year of birth, and is internationally oriented. An alphabetical structure contains the category: aphorism .
Before 1500
- Heraclitus of Ephesus (* around 520 BC; † around 460 BC), Perì phýseōs ( On Nature )
- Publilius Syrus (1st century BC), The Proverbs
- Mark Aurel (121–180), self-contemplations
- Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466–1536), Adagia
- Francesco Guicciardini (1483-1540), Ricordi
16th Century
- Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592), Essais
- Francis Bacon (1561–1626), Aphorisms, of the Interpretation of Nature and the Rule of Man
17th century
- Madame de Sablé (1599-1678), Maximes
- Baltasar Gracián (1601–1658), hand oracle and art of sophistication
- Samuel Butler (1612-1680), Prose Observations
- François de La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680), maxims and reflections
- Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), Pensées
- Jean de La Bruyère (1645–1696), The Characters or The Morals of the Century
- Jonathan Swift (1667–1745), Thoughts on Various Objects of an edifying and delightful kind
18th century
- Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715–1747) in: The French Moralists , ed. u. trans. v. Fritz Schalk
- Nicolas-Sébastian Roch Chamfort (1741–1794), A forest full of thieves. Maxim, characters, anecdotes
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799), Sudelbücher
- Wilhelm Heinse (1746–1803), aphorisms
- Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749–1832), maxims and reflections
- Joseph Joubert (1754-1824), Pensées
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand (1754-1838)
- Jean Paul (1763–1825), Remarks on Man
- Johann Gottfried Seume (1763–1810), Apocrypha
- Rahel Varnhagen (1771–1833), Streaks of Light and Embers Paths
- Friedrich Schlegel (1772–1829), Athenaeum Fragments
- Novalis (1772-1801), pollen
- William Hazlitt (1778-1830), Common Places
- Friedrich von Raumer (1781–1873), chaff
- Stendhal (1783–1842), in: About love , trans. v. Arthur Schurig
- Ludwig Börne (1786–1837), aphorisms and miscells
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860), aphorisms on wisdom
- Giacomo Leopardi (1798–1837), The Book of Thoughts. Notes of a skeptic
19th century
- Ernst von Feuchtersleben (1806–1849), leaves from a lonely person's diary
- Friedrich Feuerbach (1806–1880), Theanthropos
- Friedrich Hebbel (1813–1863), diaries
- Eduard Douwes Dekker (1820–1887), pseudonym: “Multatuli”, ideas
- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830–1916), aphorisms
- Daniel Spitzer (1835–1893), Last Walks in Vienna
- Mark Twain (1835-1910), notebook
- Samuel Butler (1835-1902), The Note-Books
- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), Mixed opinions and sayings in: Menschliches Allzumenschliches and The great person in: The happy science
- Max Bernstein (1854–1925), "subsequently built-in" aphorisms in his plays and speeches ( source )
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated
- George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950), Shaw Breviary
- Peter Altenberg (1859-1919), Prodromos
- Arthur Schnitzler (1862–1931), Book of Proverbs and Concerns
- Jules Renard (1864–1910), Ideas dipped in ink. Diary records
- Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946), Afterthoughts
- Paul Valéry (1871-1945), Cahiers
- Christian Morgenstern (1871–1914), stages and other aphorisms and sayings
- Karol Irzykowski (1873–1944), deeds and words. Opinions of a skeptic
- Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874–1929), Book of Friends
- Karl Kraus (1874–1936), Proverbs and Contradictions
- Adolf Nowaczyński (1876–1944), Polish Eulenspiegeleien
- Rudolf Alexander Schröder (1878–1962), aphorisms and reflections
- Erich Mühsam (1878–1934), various anthologies
- Oswald Spengler (1880–1936), original questions
- Hans Albrecht Moser (1882–1978), The Comedy of Life
- Franz Kafka (1883–1924), “He” and reflections on sin, suffering, hope and the true path
- Kurt Hiller (1885–1972), The Wisdom of Boredom
- Alfred Grünewald (1884–1942), results
- Ramón Gómez de la Serna (1888–1963), Greguerías
- Kurt Tucholsky (1890–1935), Schnipsel , Sudelbuch
- Walter Benjamin (1892–1940), one-way street
- Julian Tuwim (1894–1953), in: Puzzle Games - Polish Aphorisms of the Twentieth Century
- Ernst Jünger (1895–1998), Seventy Gone
- Heimito von Doderer (1896–1966), repertory
- Norbert Elias (1897–1990), poems and sayings
- Karl Heinrich Waggerl (1897–1973), Everything true is simple
- Friedrich Georg Jünger (1898–1977), Thoughts and Marks
- Erich Kästner (1899–1974), a. a. in Doctor Erich Kästner's lyric medicine cabinet
- Stefan Napierski (1899–1940), in: Think before you think , ed. by Karl Dedecius
- Charles Tschopp (1899–1982), the kaleidoscope of everyday life
20th century
- Hans Kudszus (1901–1977) , yes words, no words. Aphorisms
- Martin Kessel (1901–1990), counterpart
- Josemaría Escrivá (1902–1975), The Way
- Max Horkheimer (1895–1973), twilight
- Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969) Minima Moralia. Reflections from the damaged life
- Ludwig Hohl (1904–1980), The Notes or On the Rash Reconciliation
- Elias Canetti (1905–1994), The Province of Man
- Joachim Günther (1905–1990), boulders
- René Char (1907–1988), Inhabiting a lightning bolt
- Stanisław Jerzy Lec (1909–1966), All Uncoated Thoughts
- Hans Arndt (1909 / 1911–1995), In sight
- Emil Cioran (1911–1995), Syllogisms of Bitterness
- Nicolás Gómez Dávila (1913–1994), Loneliness. Glosses and text in one
- Hans Kasper (1916–1990), Time Without Breath
- Walter Hilsbecher (1917–2015), Sporades
- Wiesław Brudziński (1920–1996), Katzenjammer. Aphorisms
- Peter Ustinov (1921–2004), Winged words
- Ernst Wimmer (1924–1991), Austria today
- Karlheinz Deschner (1924–2014), Only living things swim against the current
- Arthur Feldmann (1926–2012), short messages from the murder pit
- Ernst R. Hauschka (1926-2012), Excerpta
- Guido Ceronetti (1927–2018), Tea Thoughts
- Michael Genin (1927-2003), Samo Truths. Aphorisms from the Soviet Union - together with Stefan Kurella
- Martin Walser (* 1927), Messmer's thoughts
- Žarko Petan (1929–2014), It is easier to nod with an empty head. Satirical aphorisms
- Gerhard Uhlenbruck (* 1929), Medical Aphorisms
- Gerd W. Heyse (* 1930), The fool in us
- Sigmar Schollak (1930–2012), The kiss, lip service
- Helmut Arntzen (1931–2014), Short Trial
- Johannes Gross (1932–1999), Tacheles spoken
- Brana Crnčević (1933–2011), state examination. Aphorisms
- Hans Saner (1934–2017), The Anarchy of Silence
- Alfonso Hüppi (* 1935), fractions. Parerga 2001
- Werner Mitsch (1936–2009), contradictions and contradictions
- Nikolaus Cybinski (* 1936), The penultimate state of affairs
- Elazar Benyoëtz (* 1937), Fraglicht: Aphorisms 1977–2007
- Werner Schneyder (1937–2019), laughter before the end. Aphorisms, epigrams . Kindler 1980
- Hans-Jürgen Quadbeck-Seeger (* 1939), aphorisms and quotations
- Beat Schmid (* 1940), Off the Hinge. Aphorisms
- Peter Handke (* 1942), The Weight of the World
- Klaus von Welser (1942–2014), from case to case
- Ludger Lütkehaus (1943–2019), The worst comes last: Philosophical Bonsais
- Botho Strauss (* 1944), aphorisms in: Couples, Passers-by
- Jacques Wirion (* 1944), seedlings. 333 aphorisms
- Horst-Joachim Rahn (* 1944), Small dictionary of my aphorisms
- Jürgen Wilbert (* 1945), almost conceivable
- Rudolf Kamp (* 1946), Sprüchewirbel. Snapbacks
- Friedemann Spicker (* 1946), The Aphorism
- Dietrich V. Wilke (* 1947), Aphor
- Michael Rumpf (* 1948), cross lines. Aphorisms
- Klaus D. Koch (* 1948), submarines in the Ehehafen. Aphorisms
- Ulrich Horstmann (* 1949), bearer of hope
- André Brie (* 1950), Only the bare truth goes with no fashion
- Michael Richter (* 1952), contradictions. 1000 new aphorisms
- Beat Rink (* 1957), awards. Aphorisms
- Oliver Tietze (* 1965), Traces in the Future. Aphorisms
- Andrzej Majewski (* 1966), aphorisms. Magnum in Parvo
21st century
- Rudolf Kamp (* 1946), Sprüchewirbel. Snapbacks.
- Michael Richter (* 1952), contradictions. 1000 new aphorisms
- Beat Rink (* 1957), awards. Aphorisms
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb (* 1960), The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
- Michael Klonovsky (* 1962), Every side is the wrong one. Aphorisms and the like
- Oliver Tietze (* 1965), Traces in the Future. Aphorisms
- Andrzej Majewski (* 1966), aphorisms. Magnum in Parvo
- Paul Mommertz (* 1930), Change of View Volume IV
For the sake of clarity, only one typical volume of aphorisms per author is mentioned. Books preceded by “in” are either not pure volumes of aphorisms or anthologies that contain several aphorists.
Individual references, comments
- ↑ BÜRGERLICH, HEROISCH, BANAUSISCH Review by Gustav René Hocke about Oswald Spengler: "Urfragen"
- ^ Edited by Antoni Marianowicz and Ryszard Marek Gronski, Insel, Frankfurt 1974