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Also Known As	Marcus Junianus Justinus
Flourished	c.201 - c.300

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Richard White

American writer and critic

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Martial

Roman poet

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Titus Pomponius Atticus

Roman author

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Sextus Pompeius Festus

Latin grammarian

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Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm

German author, folklorist, and philologist

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Wilhelm Carl Grimm

German author, folklorist, and philologist

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Helen Archibald Clarke

American writer and editor

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Charlotte Endymion Porter

American editor

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Charles Dudley Warner

American essayist

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Peter Christen Asbjørnsen

Norwegian author

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Francis Horace Vizetelly

American-British writer

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Jørgen Engebretsen Moe

Norwegian author

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Julius Schwartz

American editor

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

Karl Marx

Karl Marx

German philosopher

Portrait of Desiderius Erasmus, shown in dark robes and cap, writing with a quill at a desk, after Quinten Massijs, oil on panel, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Erasmus

Dutch humanist

Thomas Cranmer

Thomas Cranmer

archbishop of Canterbury

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

French writer

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Origen

Christian theologian

Portrait of poet Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope

English author