Definition of Polyhistors. Meaning of Polyhistors. Synonyms of Polyhistors

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Definition of Polyhistors

Polyhistor
Polyhistor Pol`y*his"tor, n. [Gr. ? very learned.] One versed in various learning. [R.]

Meaning of Polyhistors from wikipedia

- World of the Polyhistors: Humanism and Encyclopedism", Central European History, 18: 31–47. (1985). Jaumann, Herbert, "Was ist ein Polyhistor? Gehversuche...
- Lucius Cornelius Alexander Polyhistor (Ancient Gr****: Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Πολυΐστωρ; flourished in the first half of the 1st century BC; also called Alexander...
- Joseph Schaffarik, Pavel Josef Safarik) (1795–1861) – poet, professor, polyhistor Jakob Jakobeus (1591–1645) – poet, historian, priest, and writer Anton...
- 64 BC – AD 17) was a Latin author, a pupil of the scholar Alexander Polyhistor, and a freedman of Augustus, and reputed author of the Fabulae and the...
- Rerum Memorabilium ("A Collection of Curious Things"), Mirabilia, and Polyhistor, the latter title being favoured by the author himself. The work is indeed...
- from the central Slovak dialect in 1843. Slovakia is also known for its polyhistors, of whom include Pavol Jozef Šafárik, Matej Bel, Ján Kollár, and its...
- characterized as "decadent" by ****tus Empiricus. According to Alexander Polyhistor, quoted by Diogenes Laërtius. According to a tradition reported by Diogenes...
- BC) Pseudo-Scymnus (c. 90 BC) Diodorus Siculus (c. 90–30 BC) Alexander Polyhistor (1st century BC) Roman Empire period Periplus of the Erythraean Sea Strabo...
- including Hecataeus of Abdera (quoted by Diodorus Siculus), Alexander Polyhistor, Manetho, Apion, Chaeremon of Alexandria, Tacitus and Porphyry also make...
- reincarnation is central. In the first century BCE Alexander Cornelius Polyhistor wrote: The Pythagorean doctrine prevails among the Gauls' teaching that...