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Who are some figures in history that were barely noticed or even
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Who are some figures in history that were barely noticed or even reviled during their own time, but are now recognized as great in some capacity?

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>>350771

>hey pope could you send me a couple of men? I need some guards on the borders with the moahmettans.
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>>350741
Gutenberg Initiated the third revolution of media after the invention of language and complex writing systems. Nobody could've known back then
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>>350741
Vlad III, Nietzsche
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Mostly artists, writers, and philosophers will fall into this category.
Kafka, van Gogh, Nietzsche spring to mind
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>>350809
Neitzsche was a head professor of philosophy IIRC
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>>350826
so were lots of people
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>>350804
>>350809
>nietzsche

What?
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>>350826
You mean philology.
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>>350826
>>350836
Except for the Birth of Tragedy, his work was mostly dismissed or ignored. Only 40 copies of Thus Spoke Zarathustra were sold during his life and he died in penniless obscurity.
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>>350809
>>350741
Lovecraft comes to mind.

Also people like Henry Matisse, Cezanne, Monet. They were actually demonized by the French Art Academy but now no one would think of their artworks as 'vulgar, disgusting, pornographic, trashy'
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>>350934

I do think that though.
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>>350942
Then you just have plebian tastes
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>>350741
The only people who hated Caesar during his lifetime were a portion of the Senate
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