2. Sima Qian, a famous historian in the Western Han Dynasty. The accident made him suffer from corruption, but he was not knocked down by adversity. After he was released from prison, he endured the torture of the remnants with amazing perseverance, and finally completed China's first biography "Historical Records", which was called by Lu Xun as "the historian's swan song, Li Sao has no rhyme" and later called "the father of China's history".
Dalton is an outstanding chemist and physicist in Britain. He was born in poverty and his living conditions were poor, but he didn't give up on himself because of it. He left his hometown at the age of 15 to find his own way. 12 When I was an assistant to the principal of a school, I worked part-time and wrote down the motto "Sleep at midnight and get up at dawn" to motivate myself. Through hard work, I have accumulated a lot of scientific knowledge. At the age of 28, he discovered the law of gas partial pressure, founded the law of multiple proportion and Dalton atomic theory, and put forward the atomic scale. His outstanding contribution was praised by Engels as "the father of modern chemistry".
4. Ludwig van Beethoven (1770- 1827) is one of the greatest German musicians. Born in a civilian family in Bonn, Germany, he showed his musical talent very early and began to perform at the age of eight. 1792 went to Vienna for further study, and his art made rapid progress. Beethoven believed in republicanism and advocated heroes, and created a large number of outstanding works full of the flavor of the times, such as the symphony Heroes and Destiny; Overture Egmont; Piano sonatas Pathetique, Moonlight, Storm, Passion, etc. I had a rough life and didn't get married. I began to lose my hearing at the age of 26, and I was completely deaf in my later years. I can only talk to people through a conversation book. However, the lonely life did not make him silent and retired. In the feudal restoration era when all progressive thoughts were banned, he still adhered to the political belief of "freedom and equality", shouted for the ideal of the Republic through speeches and works, and wrote the immortal masterpiece "Ninth Symphony". Influenced by the Enlightenment in18th century and the hurricane movement in Germany, his works are distinctive in personality and have made great progress compared with his predecessors. In music performance, he almost involved all the music schools at that time; Greatly improve the expressive force of the piano and make it obtain a symphonic dramatic effect; It also makes symphony an important music form that directly reflects social changes. Beethoven, as a masterpiece of classical music, opened up the road of music in The Romantic Period and played a decisive role in the development of world music. He was addressed as a "saint of music".
5. Michelangelo,1born in Florence on March 6, 475, was a famous sculptor, painter, architect and poet in the Italian Renaissance. 13 years old, he learned 1 year painting from Kilanda, and then learned 1 year sculpture from Betodo. His artistic creation was deeply influenced by humanism and savonarola's religious reform movement. With realistic techniques and romantic fantasies, he showed the patriotism and the spirit of fighting for himself of the civil class at that time. With strong perseverance and great verve in art, Michelangelo's middle-aged work "The Portrait of David" is regarded as a symbol of the power to fight for a just cause. He also worked continuously on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel for four years and independently completed the giant zenith painting of Genesis. In his later years, the sculptures of Medici's mausoleum, such as Morning, Curtain, Day and Night, have a calm and gloomy tragic nature, showing the contradiction between the excitement and will of the characters and reflecting the mental state of the Italian people who lost their freedom and independence at that time. Other important works include the mural The Last Judgment and the sculpture Moses and Slaves.