> I merely mentioned that your and other claims that "anyone with a high school education has to have heard of him" is bollocks.

> I have both a high school and university degree and have never heard of him

With all due respect, it's far more likely that you have heard of him, but you didn't retain the information.

As I mentioned in a sibling thread, you are, with all due respect, assuming very specific, potentially very local schooling. I can't say where you grew up and at what time and what the curriculum would always contain.

However, whatever your schooling included, after reading through the entirety of the Wikipedia article I can say with absolute certainty that none of it rang any bells and it very much was not part of my schooling and I did not happen to come across it afterwards by accident such as through this article.

Like also hinted at in that sibling thread, there are other quite local historic figures I could cite which I know for a fact are locally well known but not otherwise. All through talking to colleagues and friends from other countries (or even just parts within a single country). What really got me both in your and their replies is this absolutist certainty. The world is so full of differences and yet somehow some people feel the need to express things like you do here in such absolute terms and no other realities seem to be possible to exist.