Ibn Khallikān: Quick Facts

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Born	September 22, 1211 • Erbil • Iraq
Died	October 30, 1282 (aged 71) • Damascus • Syria

Sarah Josepha Hale.

Sarah Josepha Hale

American author

Thomas Fuller, lithograph by C. Kell, 1874, after a portrait by an unknown artist, 1648

Thomas Fuller

English scholar, preacher, and author

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Sir Leslie Stephen

British critic

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George Smith

British publisher

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Evert Augustus Duyckinck

American literary critic

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Pierre-Sylvain Maréchal

French poet

Mattheson, detail of an engraving by J.J. Haid after a painting by J.S. Wahl

Johann Mattheson

German musician and writer

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Jared Sparks

American publisher

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Dumas Malone

American historian, editor, and the author

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Alexander Chalmers

Scottish author and editor

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Marchette Chute

American author

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Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm

German author, folklorist, and philologist

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Charles Edward Russell

American writer

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Laura E. Richards

American author

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Charles Dudley Warner

American essayist

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Sidney Colvin

English scholar

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Ion of Chios

Greek poet

British prime minister Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

prime minister of United Kingdom

Painting of Samuel Johnson showing Johnson seated at a desk with a quill in hand and papers before him, wearing a brown coat and white wig.

Samuel Johnson

English author

Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon

British author, philosopher, and statesman