Tags: Philosopher.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (French: [miʃɛl ekɛm də mɔ̃tɛɲ]; 28 February 1533 – 13 September 1592) was one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre.

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birth date
1533-02-28
birth place
Château de Montaigne
death date
1592-09-13
death place
Château de Montaigne
era
Renaissance philosophy
influenced
Blaise Pascal, Eric Hoffer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, René Descartes, Gore Vidal, José Saramago, William Shakespeare, William Hazlitt, Jean-François Lyotard, Albert Otto Hirschman, Michel Onfray
influenced by
Heraclitus, Horace, Plutarch, Cato the Younger, Sextus Empiricus, Seneca the Younger
notableIdea
Essay
philosophicalSchool
Renaissance humanism

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