List of people considered a founder in a Humanities field

Those known as the father, mother, or considered a founder in a Humanities field are those who have made important contributions to that field. In some fields several people are considered the founders, while in others the title of being the "father" is debatable.

Contents

Humanities Fields

Arts

Subject Father / Mother Reason
Danish painting Nikolaj Abraham Abildgaard[1]
Gothic architecture Abbot Suger[2] Built the first Gothic church at the Abbey of St Dennis
Oil painting Jan van Eyck[3] For experimenting with the medium to remarkable effect
Photojournalism Mathew Brady[4]
Pop art Richard Hamilton[5]
Stop-motion animation Art Clokey[6]

Communication

Subject Father / Mother Reason
Spam Gary Thuerk[7][8] Penned the first message that advertised the availability of a new model of Digital Equipment Corporation computers to 393 recipients on ARPANET in 1978.[9]

Crime

Subject Father / Mother Reason
Modern bank robbery Herman Lamm[10]
Organized crime Lucky Luciano[11]

History

Subject Father / Mother Reason
Ecclesiastical History Eusebius of Caesarea[12] Because of his work in recording the history of the early Christian church
French history André Duchesne[12]
Historiography Ibn Khaldun[13] Muqaddimah (Prolegomena) (1377)
History Herodotus[14][15]
Thucydides		 The Histories
History of the Peloponnesian War
History of science George Sarton[16] Founded Isis (1912) and wrote Introduction to the History of Science (1927)
Modern history Leonardo Bruni[17]
Philosophy of history Ibn Khaldun[18] Muqaddimah (Prolegomena) (1377)
Public administration Woodrow Wilson[19] "The Study of Administration" in Political Science Quarterly, June 1887.

Language and literature

Subject Father / Mother Reason
American folklore Richard Dorson[20]
American literature Mark Twain[21]
English literature Geoffrey Chaucer[22]
English poetry Geoffrey Chaucer[12]
Epic poetry Homer[12][15]
Finnish written language Mikael Agricola[23]
German Literature Gotthold Ephraim Lessing[12]
Grammar Pāṇini[24] Wrote the Ashtadhyayi
Greek Tragedy Aeschylus[12]
Modern Hebrew language Eliezer Ben Yehuda[25]
Italian language Dante Alighieri[26]
Italian literature Dante Alighieri[26]
Letters (messages) Francis I of France[12]
Linguistics (early) Pāṇini[27] Wrote the Ashtadhyayi
Linguistics (modern) Ferdinand de Saussure

Noam Chomsky[28][29]
Modern fantasy literature J. R. R. Tolkien[30]
Novel Homer[31]
Science fiction Mary Shelley

Lucian of Samosata[32]

Jules Verne[33][34]

HG Wells[33][34]
Science fiction magazine Hugo Gernsback[34][35]
Urdu Maulvi Abdul Haq[36]

Law

Subject Father / Mother Reason
European patent law Kurt Haertel[37][38]
International Law Francisco de Vitoria[39]
Hugo Grotius		 For speculating on human rights and the proper relations that ought to exist between nations
Russian jurisprudence Semyon Efimovich Desnitsky[40] Russian social and political theorist (18th century)
United States Constitution James Madison

Music

See also: Honorific nicknames in popular music
Subject Father / Mother Reason
Ambient music Erik Satie[41]
American piano manufacture Jonas Chickering[42]
Blues Ma Rainey[43]
Bluegrass music Bill Monroe[44]
Chicago blues / electric blues Muddy Waters[45]
Country music Jimmie Rodgers[46][47][48]
Death metal Chuck Schuldiner[49][50][51]
Disco Mel Cheren (Godfather)[52]
Giorgio Moroder[53]
English Cathedral Music Thomas Tallis[12]
Funk George Clinton ("Godfather")[54]
Gospel music Thomas A. Dorsey[55]
Greek music Terpander[12]
Grunge Neil Young[56]
Heavy metal Ozzy Osbourne ("Godfather of Metal")[57]
Italo Disco Alexander Robotnick (Godfather)[58]
Punk rock Patti Smith (Godmother),[59]

Joey Ramone
Jazz Buddy Bolden[60]
Jelly Roll Morton[61]
Theodore August Metz[62]
Modern jazz piano Earl "Fatha" Hines[63]
Reggae Frederick "Toots" Hibbert
Rock music in China Cui Jian[64]
Soul music James Brown (godfather)[65]
Symphony and string quartet Joseph Haydn[66][67][68]
Thrash metal James Hetfield[69]

Performance art

Subject Father / Mother Reason
Vogue Willi Ninja[70] Godfather[71][72]

Philosophy and religion

See also: List of founders of religious traditions and Church fathers
Subject Father / Mother Reason
Anarchism Mikhail Bakunin[73]
Behaviorism John B. Watson[74]
Cynicism (school of thought) Diogenes of Sinope[75]
Epicureanism Epicurus[75]
Existentialism Søren Kierkegaard[76]
Feminism Mary Wollstonecraft[77][78]
Faith missions Anthony Norris Groves[79]
Humanism Petrarch[80][81]
Islamic logic Al-Farabi[82]
Liberalism Baruch Spinoza[83]
Logical positivism Moritz Schlick[84]
Methodism John Wesley[85]
Moral Philosophy Thomas Aquinas[12]
Protestantism (Lutheranism) Martin Luther[86]
Scholasticism John Scotus Erigena[87]

Lanfranc of Canterbury[87]
Anselm of Canterbury[87]
Peter Abelard[87]

Book: Sic et non
Scholasticism (Protestant) Hugo Grotius[88]
Secularism Averroes[89]
Socialism Karl Marx[90]
Robert Owen[91]
Thomism Thomas Aquinas[12]
Zionism Theodor Herzl[92]

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  92. ^ Binyamin Ze-ev (Theodor) Herzl - Father of Zionism