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Lucretius Carus (also Lukrez)

Is about 98 before Christ born and about 54 died before Christ?

The poet and philosopher Lucretius Carus (also Lukrez) is a representative of the natural philosophical teaching, after which the natural events through a multitude of moving, the smallest indivisible atoms in the empty space caused unlimited. Lukrez lived in Rome. He relied primarily on the doctrine of Epikur.

First appeared in the 19th century, inspired by Wolfgang von Goethe, the first German translation at the Baron von Knebel. Albert Einstein was also fascinated by Lukrez

The idea that atoms an inner structure, ultimately led to atomic physics
In his teaching poem "De rerum natura”, in six philosophical books of Epikur.

Lukrez has sought to convey a philosophy to which the human mind calm and serenity, and his fear of death and the gods take from the ignorance the people about his position in the world, about the nature and the nature arises, and consequently is overcome through education.

They play the atomistic theory, the doctrine of the mortality of the human soul and the view that the gods are neither able nor are willing to settle in the real world life involved, the crucial role.

Lukrez takes, as opposed to Epikur, share of the social events of his time, condemns the moral decay of the aristocracy, laments the war and its horrors, by the technical progress steadily grow. The work was reworked of Cicero and must be equal to 50 before Christ has been published.
Lukrez died about 54 before Christ after taking a love potion, declined the insanity and committed suicide. Hans Terwege