Authors of the Top-100 non-fictional books

According to https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZEIT-Bibliothek_der_100_B%C3%BCcher (german)
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Title
Answer
1
The Republic
Plato
2
Politics
Aristotle
3
Elements
Euclid
4
The Jewish War
Flavius Josephus
5
Parallel Lives
Plutarch
6
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
7
The City of God
Augustine of Hippo
8
Summa Theologica
Thomas Aquinas
9
In Praise of Folly
Erasmus
10
On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church
Martin Luther
11
The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli
12
De revolutionibus orbium coelestium
Nicolaus Copernicus
13
Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects
Giorgio Vasari
14
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
Galileo Galilei
15
An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding
John Locke
16
Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes
17
Discourse on the Method
René Descartes
18
De l'Esprit géométrique
Blaise Pascal
19
Ethics, Demonstrated in Geometrical Order
Baruch Spinoza
20
Théodicée
Gottfried Leibniz
21
The Spirit of the Laws
Montesquieu
22
Essai sur les mœurs et l'esprit des nations
Voltaire
23
The Social Contract
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
24
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
David Hume
25
The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith
26
A Voyage Round the World
Georg Forster
27
Critique of Pure Reason
Immanuel Kant
28
Über den Zwischenkiefer der Menschen und der Tiere
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
29
Über den Umgang mit Menschen
Adolph Knigge
30
Enquiries into the Course of Nature in the Development of the Human Race
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
31
An Essay on the Principle of Population
Thomas Robert Malthus
32
The Phenomenology of Spirit
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
33
The World as Will and Representation
Arthur Schopenhauer
34
Nouveau Christianisme
Henri de Saint-Simon
35
On War
Carl von Clausewitz
36
Life of Jesus
David Strauss
37
Democracy in America
Alexis de Tocqueville
38
What is Property?
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
39
The Concept of Anxiety
Søren Kierkegaard
40
The Condition of the Working Class in England
Friedrich Engels
41
The Ego and Its Own
Max Stirner
42
History of the Reformation in Germany
Leopold von Ranke
43
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
Jacob Burckhardt
44
On the Origin of Species
Charles Darwin
45
Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe
Alexander von Humboldt
46
Statism and Anarchy
Mikhail Bakunin
47
History of Rome
Theodor Mommsen
48
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
49
Diaries
Friedrich Hebbel
50
History of Germany in the nineteenth century
Heinrich von Treitschke
 
Title
Answer
51
The Foundations of Arithmetic
Gottlob Frege
52
Das Kapital
Karl Marx
53
The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
Gustave Le Bon
54
Gedanken und Erinnerungen
Otto von Bismarck
55
The world-riddle
Ernst Haeckel
56
Vorträge und Erinnerungen
Max Planck
57
Logical Investigations
Edmund Husserl
58
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Max Weber
59
Reflections on Violence
Georges Sorel
60
Kompositionslehre der Natur
Jakob Johann von Uexküll
61
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory
Albert Einstein
62
Fundamental Questions of Sociology
Georg Simmel
63
The Epistle to the Romans
Karl Barth
64
Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy
Bertrand Russell
65
The Decline of the West
Oswald Spengler
66
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Ludwig Wittgenstein
67
The Ego and the Id
Sigmund Freud
68
Toward an Architecture
Le Corbusier
69
History and Class Consciousness
György Lukács
70
Literature and Revolution
Leon Trotsky
71
Ideal Marriage: Its Physiology and Technique
Theodoor Hendrik van de Velde
72
Being and Time
Martin Heidegger
73
Sex and Repression in Savage Society
Bronisław Malinowski
74
The Revolt of the Masses
José Ortega y Gasset
75
Die geistige Situation der Zeit
Karl Jaspers
76
What Is to Be Done?
Vladimir Lenin
77
Coming of Age in Samoa
Margaret Mead
78
A Study of History
Arnold J. Toynbee
79
Jesus Christus und die Mythologie
Rudolf Bultmann
80
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
Joseph Schumpeter
81
Being and Nothingness
Jean-Paul Sartre
82
Dialectic of Enlightenment
Max Horkheimer/Theodor W. Adorno
83
The Open Society and Its Enemies
Karl Popper
84
Der SS-Staat
Eugen Kogon
85
The Phenomenon of Man
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
86
Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine
Norbert Wiener
87
The Second Sex
Simone de Beauvoir
88
The Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt
89
The Second World War
Winston Churchill
90
Die Auflösung der Weimarer Republik
Karl Dietrich Bracher
91
The Principle of Hope
Ernst Bloch
92
Physics in My Generation
Max Born
93
Silent Spring
Rachel Carson
94
Language and Mind
Noam Chomsky
95
Knowledge and Human Interests
Jürgen Habermas
96
The Double Helix
James Watson
97
Physics and Beyond
Werner Heisenberg
98
Chance and Necessity
Jacques Monod
99
A Theory of Justice
John Rawls
100
The Limits to Growth
Club of Rome
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