Confucius

Confucius is recorded in the Open Library catalogue as a Chinese thinker and social philosopher, with a birth date given as September 28, 551 BCE and a death date of 479 BCE. The catalogue knows him under many names and spellings, among them the romanisations Kong Fuzi and K'ung-fu-tzu, the English form Master Kong, the Spanish Confucio and the German Konfuzius, and it also files his name under the Chinese characters used in China. Its linked identifiers include a Project Gutenberg author number and a LibriVox reader entry, which shows that texts attributed to him circulate in public domain editions and audio recordings. This entry places him on the Literature Atlas as an author of the Chinese tradition, whose sayings were handed down in translation to readers in many languages.