Flashcards: Encyclopedists

Rabanus Maurus Magnentius (c. 780 – 4 February 856), also known as Hrabanus or Rhabanus, was a Frankish Benedictine monk and theologian who became archbishop of Mainz in Germany.

Saint Isidore of Seville (Latin: Isidorus Hispalensis; c. 560 – 4 April 636), a scholar and, for over three decades, Archbishop of Seville, is widely regarded as the last of the Fathers of the Church, as the 19th-century historian Montalembert put it in an oft-quoted phrase, "The last scholar of the ancient world.

Jean-Rodolphe Perronet (27 October 1708 – 27 February 1794) was a French architect and structural engineer, known for his many stone arch bridges.

Jesús Mosterín (born 1941) is a leading Spanish philosopher and a thinker of broad spectrum, often at the frontier between science and philosophy.

Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Muhammad ibn Mahdi al-Hussaini al-Shirazi (Arabic: آية الله العظمى السيد محمد بن مهدي الحسيني الشيرازي‎‎; August 31, 1928 – December 17, 2001), commonly known as Mohammad Al-Shirazi, was a Shia Muslim author, politician and religious leader.

Paul-Henri Thiry, Baron d'Holbach (French: [dɔlbak]), was a French-German author, philosopher, encyclopedist and prominent figure in the French Enlightenment.

Andrew Bell (1726–1809) was a Scottish engraver and printer, who co-founded Encyclopædia Britannica with Colin Macfarquhar.

Al-Nuwayrī, also Shihāb al-Dīn Ahmad, b.

Shihab al-Din abu 'l-Abbas Ahmad ben Ali ben Ahmad Abd Allah al-Qalqashandi (1355 or 1356 – 1418) was a medieval Egyptian writer and mathematician.

Hesychius of Miletus (Greek: Ήσύχιος ο Μιλήσιος Hesychios o Milesios), Greek chronicler and biographer, surnamed Illustrius, son of an advocate, flourished at Constantinople in the 6th century AD during the reign of Justinian.

Aulus Cornelius Celsus (c. 25 BC – c. 50 AD) was a Roman encyclopaedist, known for his extant medical work, De Medicina, which is believed to be the only surviving section of a much larger encyclopedia.

Lawrence Henry Yaw Ofosu-Appiah (18 March 1920 – 1 June 1990) was a Ghanaian academic who taught classics at the University of Ghana and was subsequently Director of the Encyclopedia Africana.

Dionysius Lardner (3 April 1793 – 29 April 1859) was an Irish scientific writer who popularised science and technology, and edited the 133-volume Cabinet Cyclopædia.

Gerson ben Solomon Catalan, also known as Gerson ben Solomon of Arles, was a Jewish author who lived at Arles, France in the middle of the thirteenth century.

Paul Augé (4 July 1881, L'Isle-Jourdain – 23 July 1951, Cabourg) was an 20th-century French publisher, romanist and lexicographer.

Jean-Louis Castilhon (1721, Toulouse – 24 August 1798, Bouillon) was an 18th-century French man of letters and encyclopedist.

Amos Urban Shirk (1890? – October 20, 1956) was an American businessman, author and reader of encyclopedias.

He was a strong advocate of Arabic/Islamic culture and its interweaving with Sudanese culture.

Sir John Alexander Hammerton (born 27 February 1871 in Alexandria, Scotland; died 12 May 1949 in London) is described by the Dictionary of National Biography as "the most successful creator of large-scale works of reference that Britain has known".

Song Yingxing (Traditional Chinese: 宋應星; Simplified Chinese: 宋应星; Wade Giles: Sung Ying-Hsing; 1587-1666 AD), born in Yichun of Jiangxi, was a Chinese scientist and encyclopedist who lived during the late Ming Dynasty (1368–1644).

Jiang Tingxi (simplified Chinese: 蒋廷锡; traditional Chinese: 蔣廷錫; pinyin: Jiǎng Tíngxí; Wade–Giles: Chiang T'ing-hsi, 1669–1732), courtesy name Yangsun (杨孙), was a Chinese painter, and an editor of the encyclopedia Gujin Tushu Jicheng (Complete Collection of Ancient and Modern Writings and Charts).

Heinrich Joseph Wetzer (Anzefahr, Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel), 19 March 1801 – Freiburg, Baden, 5 November 1853) was a German Orientalist.

Khady Diallo (born 1955) is an Ivory Coast Francophile and cultural engineer.

Guy Hardy Scholefield CMG OBE (17 June 1877 – 19 July 1963) was a New Zealand journalist, historian, archivist, librarian and editor, known primarily as the compiler of the 1940 version of the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography.

Isaac Lampronti (February 3, 1679 – November 16, 1756) was an Italian rabbi and physician, best known as author of the rabbinic encyclopedia Paħad Yitzħak.

Paul Skalich (1534–1573), also known as Stanislav Pavao Skalić or Paulus Scalichius de Lika, was an encyclopedist, Renaissance humanist, and adventurer born in Zagreb, Croatia, and who lived part of his life in Germany.

Jacques-François de Villiers (1727–1794) was a French physician and translator.

Ephraim Chambers (c.1680 – 15 May 1740) was an English writer and encyclopaedist, who is primarily known for producing the Cyclopaedia, or a Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences.

Peter Nicholls (born 1939) is an Australian literary scholar and critic and is the creator and a co-editor of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction with John Clute.

Philipp Andreas Nemnich (1764–1822), German encyclopaedist, lexicographer and travel writer

Pasquale Tola (30 November 1800, Sassari – 25 August 1874, Genoa) was an Italian judge, politician and historian.

Mate Ujević (July 13, 1901 – January 6, 1967) was a Croatian poet and encyclopedist.

Joseph Jacobs (29 August 1854 – 30 January 1916) was an Australian folklorist, literary critic, historian and writer of English literature who became a notable collector and publisher of English folklore.

Bracha Peli (Hebrew: ברכה פלאי‎‎) (1892–1986) was the founder and owner of the Israeli publishing house, Massada.

Abraham Portaleone (died July 29, 1612) was an Italian-Jewish physician in Mantua.

Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf al-Kātib al-Khwārizmī, also referred to as al-Balkhī, was a 10th-century Persian encyclopedist and the author of the early encyclopedia Mafātīḥ al-ʿulūm (“Key to the Sciences”) in the Arabic language.

Anders Thiset (born 25 February 1850 in Copenhagen, died 14 July 1917) was a Danish historian, genealogist, heraldic artist, archivist and encyclopedist.

Pierre-Ange Vieillard de Boismartin (17 June 1778 – 12 January 1862) was an 19th-century French poet, playwright and literary critic.

Louis Heilprin (1851–1912) was a Hungarian American author, historian, and encyclopedia editor.

Alexander Peli (1915–2007) was a Ukrainian-born Israeli encyclopedist, the supervising editor of the Encyclopaedia Hebraica.

Ramón Armando Rodriguez Lugo (September 7, 1895 in Cúa, Miranda - April 16, 1959 in Caracas) was a Venezuelan writer, journalist, and historian, best remembered as the author of the 1957 Diccionario biográfico, geográfico e histórico de Venezuela.

Samuel Krauss (Ukk, February 18, 1866 - Cambridge, June 4, 1948) was professor at the Jewish Teachers' Seminary, Budapest, 1894–1906, and at the Jewish Theological Seminary, Vienna, 1906-1938.