Burton, Robert, 1577-1640
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Democritus Junior, 1577-1640
Berton, Robert, 1577-1640
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found: His The anatomy of melancholy, 1883.
found: Iz istorii angliĭskoĭ literatury XVII-XVIII vekov, 1996:cover (Robert Berton)
found: Oxford dictionary of national biography online, 14 December 2012(Robert Burton, writer, born 8 February 1577 in Leicestershire; died 25 January 1640)
found: Britannica (website), viewed March 13, 2024:Robert Burton (English author, scholar, and clergyman. Robert Burton (born February 8, 1577, Lindley, Leicestershire, England--died January 25, 1640, Oxford) was an English scholar, writer, and Anglican clergyman whose Anatomy of Melancholy is a masterpiece of style and a valuable index to the philosophical and psychological ideas of the time. Burton was educated at Oxford, elected a student (life fellow) of Christ Church (one of the colleges of the university) in 1599, and lived there the rest of his life, becoming a bachelor of divinity in 1614 and vicar of St. Thomas's Church, Oxford, in 1616. He also held livings in Lincolnshire (1624-31) and Leicestershire, the latter bestowed by his patron, Lord Berkeley. Burton's first work was the Latin comedy Philosophaster (1606; edited with an English translation by P. Jordan-Smith, 1931), a vivacious exposure of charlatanism that has affinities with Ben Jonson's The Alchemist. It was acted at Christ Church in 1618.) - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-Burton
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1980-06-30: new
2024-03-15: revised
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