Since its beginning, it has published the work of a significant number of both Spanish and foreign philosophers, including Jan A. Aertsen, Elizabeth Anscombe, Werner Beierwaltes, Michael Dummett, Peter Geach, Susan Haack, Friedrich Kaulbach, Ralph McInerny, Antonio Millán-Puelles, Giovanni Reale and Robert Spaemann.
He was also the cousin and at one time the student of the painter Wilhelm von Kaulbach, son of Philipp Karl Friedrich v. Kaulbach (1775–1846), goldsmith and amateur painter; Wilhelm's son, Herman Kaulbach (1846–1909); and his own son, Friedrich August von Kaulbach (1850–1920).
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In Berlin, Comfort was influenced by meetings and studies with the philosopher Friedrich Kaulbach, Carl Richard Lepsius (curator of Egyptology at the Berlin Museum), Gemäldegalerie director Gustav Waagen, Leopold von Ranke, among others.