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Flourished c.101 - c.300
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Martial
Roman poet
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Titus Pomponius Atticus
Roman author
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Justin
Roman historian
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Peter Christen Asbjørnsen
Norwegian author
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Francis Horace Vizetelly
American-British writer
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Wilhelm Carl Grimm
German author, folklorist, and philologist
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Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm
German author, folklorist, and philologist
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Charlotte Endymion Porter
American editor
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Jørgen Engebretsen Moe
Norwegian author
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Charles Dudley Warner
American essayist
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Richard White
American writer and critic
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Julius Schwartz
American editor
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Helen Archibald Clarke
American writer and 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