Robert Burton

Robert Burton

male, deceased (1640)
Oxford University, Doctor, TheAnatomyofMelancholy, Non-fiction writer, Alumni of Brasenose College, Oxford, Scholar…Fellow of Christ Church, Oxford, University of Oxford
Robert Burton was an English scholar and vicar at Oxford University, best known for writing "The Anatomy of Melancholy".
Paul Jordan-Smith

Paul Jordan-Smith

male, deceased (1971)
from Los Angeles, journalist, editor, Non-fiction writer, hoax, American…TheAnatomyofMelancholy
Paul Jordan-Smith (October 14 1885 - June 17 1971) an American journalist, editor, and author from Los Angeles, California. He produced an...

George Harding 8th Baron Berkeley

male, deceased (1658)
prince charles, jacobean, the duchess of malfi, caroline, Literature in English, Order of the Bath…Baron in the Peerage of England, TheAnatomyofMelancholy, The Renegado, The Young Admiral
George Harding, 8th Baron Berkeley (1601 - August 10, 1658) was a seventeenth-century English nobleman and a prominent patron of literature in his...
Richard Swineshead

Richard Swineshead

male
Scholastic philosopher, Gerolamo Cardano, Liber calculationum, Julius Caesar Scaliger, qui pene modum excessit humani ingenii, Bibliothèque du Roi…TheAnatomyofMelancholy, The Calculator
Richard Swineshead (fl. c. 1340 – 1354), logician and natural philosopher, was perhaps the greatest of the Oxford Calculators of Merton College, wh...

Richard Ferrybridge

male
Logician, 14th century, English, fourteenth century, Consequentiae, TheAnatomyofMelancholy
Richard Ferrybridge was an English logician of the fourteenth century. His works include a "Tractatus de veritate sive logica", and the...

Simon Grahame

male, deceased (1614)
writer, Scottish, Franciscan, Robert Burton, TheAnatomyofMelancholy, Passionate Sparke of a Relenting Minde…Anatomy of Humours
Simon Grahame or Simion (1570–1614), born in Edinburgh, Scotland, led a dissolute life as a traveller, soldier, and courtier on the Continent of Eu...