John Harris

male, deceased (1719)
Fellow of the Royal Society, writer, shropshire, book editor, encyclopedia, English
John Harris (c. 1666 - September 7, 1719), was an English writer. He is best known as the editor of the "Lexicon technicum", or "Dictionary of the...
Carla Emery

Carla Emery

female, deceased (2005)
crop failure, washington state, back to the land, Encyclopedist, encyclopedia, American…Encyclopedia of Country Living
Carla (Carlotta Louise Harshbarger) Emery DeLong (born January 19, 1939, died October 11, 2005). Born in Los Angeles where her parents had gone in...

Peter Nicholls

male, 70 years old
writer, The Science in Science Fiction, Explorations of the Marvellous, Foundation The Review of Science Fiction, The Science Fiction Encyclopedia, The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction…encyclopedia
Peter Nicholls (1939-) is an Australian literary scholar and critic. He is the creator and a co-editor of "The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction"...
Rabanus Maurus

Rabanus Maurus

male, deceased (856)
German, Latin grammarian, abbot, Carolingian Latin writer, Medieval linguist, bishop…encyclopedia
Rabanus Maurus Magnentius (c. 780 - 4 February 856), also known as Hrabanus or Rhabanus, was a Benedictine monk, the archbishop of Mainz in...
Vincent Of Beauvais

Vincent Of Beauvais

male, deceased (1264)
Speculum Maius, Latin writer, Middle Ages, oise, Dominicans, encyclopedia
The Dominican friar Vincent of Beauvais (Vincentius Bellovacensis) ("ca" 1190 - 1264?) wrote the Speculum Maius, the main encyclopedia that was...
Ian Shaw

Ian Shaw

male
university of liverpool, encyclopedia, Egyptian, el-Amarna, English, egyptologist
Dr. Ian Shaw is an Egyptologist and senior lecturer in Egyptian archaeology at the University of Liverpool. His field work was largely focused in...
Rashid Al-Din

Rashid Al-Din

male, deceased (1318)
Jewish person, islam, convert to islam, adam, 13th century, 14th century…encyclopedia
Rashid al-Din Tabib also Rashid ad-Din Fadhlullah Hamadani, was a Persian physician, writer and historian, who wrote an enormous Islamic history...
James Joyner

James Joyner

male
university of tennessee at chattanooga, troy state university, Bainbridge College, naval postgraduate school, operation desert storm, U.S. Army…encyclopedia
James Joyner (born November 16, 1965) is best known as the founder and editor-in-chief of the weblog Outside The Beltway and a frequent contributor...
Franco Moretti

Franco Moretti

male
Stanford University, comparative literature, Palme d'Or, encyclopedia, Classical scholar, Columbia University
Franco Moretti is an Italian scholar. He has written four groundbreaking books, "Signs Taken for Wonders" (1983), "Modern Epic" (1995), "Atlas of...
Guan Zhong

Guan Zhong

male
centralize, manpower, iron, Village, compilation, trade…encyclopedia
Guan Zhong (管仲) (born 725 BC, died in 645 BC) was a politician in the Spring and Autumn Period. His given name was "Yíwú" (夷吾). "Zhong" was his co...