| LC control no. | n 50033773 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PA8485.B8 Latin PR2223 PR2224 English |
| Personal name heading | Burton, Robert, 1577-1640 |
| Variant(s) | Democritus Junior, 1577-1640 Berton, Robert, 1577-1640 |
| Associated country | England |
| Birth date | 1577-02-08 |
| Death date | 1640-01-25 |
| Place of birth | Leicestershire (England) |
| Place of death | Oxford (England) |
| Field of activity | Church work Christianity Melancholy Psychology Philosophy |
| Affiliation | University of Oxford |
| Profession or occupation | Authors Clergy |
| Found in | His The anatomy of melancholy, 1883. Iz istorii angliĭskoĭ literatury XVII-XVIII vekov, 1996: cover (Robert Berton) Oxford dictionary of national biography online, 14 December 2012 (Robert Burton, writer, born 8 February 1577 in Leicestershire; died 25 January 1640) Britannica (website), viewed March 13, 2024: Robert Burton (English author, scholar, and clergyman. Robert Burton (born February 8, 1577, Lindley, Leicestershire, England--died January 25, 1640, Oxford) was an English scholar, writer, and Anglican clergyman whose Anatomy of Melancholy is a masterpiece of style and a valuable index to the philosophical and psychological ideas of the time. Burton was educated at Oxford, elected a student (life fellow) of Christ Church (one of the colleges of the university) in 1599, and lived there the rest of his life, becoming a bachelor of divinity in 1614 and vicar of St. Thomas's Church, Oxford, in 1616. He also held livings in Lincolnshire (1624-31) and Leicestershire, the latter bestowed by his patron, Lord Berkeley. Burton's first work was the Latin comedy Philosophaster (1606; edited with an English translation by P. Jordan-Smith, 1931), a vivacious exposure of charlatanism that has affinities with Ben Jonson's The Alchemist. It was acted at Christ Church in 1618.) <https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-Burton> |
| Associated language | eng lat |
| Invalid LCCN | n 79091362 |
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