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Born December 25, 1759 • England
Died September 25, 1808 (aged 48) • London • England
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Byzantine scholar
Richard Bentley, detail of an oil painting by James Thornhill, 1710; in Trinity College, Cambridge.
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British scholar
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French scholar
Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo
Italian poet
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Adamántios Koraïs
Greek scholar
Opitz, Martin
Martin Opitz
German poet
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Maximus Planudes
Byzantine scholar and theologian
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Johann Albert Fabricius
German scholar
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Jan Kasprowicz
Polish writer
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Aristophanes Of Byzantium
Greek critic and grammarian
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Joachim Camerarius
German scholar and theologian
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Manuel Moschopoulos
Byzantine grammarian
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Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff
German scholar
Murray, Gilbert
Gilbert Murray
British scholar
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Reiske, engraving, 1770
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German scholar
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Greek poet
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English author
Thomas Cranmer
Thomas Cranmer
archbishop of Canterbury
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Alexander Pope
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