Edward Gibbon
1737
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1794
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: Great Britain
educated at: Magdalen College, Westminster School, Kingston Grammar School
occupation: historian, politician, classical scholar, writer
position held: Member of Parliament of Great Britain, member of the 14th Parliament of Great Britain, member of the 15th Parliament of Great Britain
influenced by: Montesquieu
Edward Gibbon (; 8 May 1737 – 16 January 1794) was an English essayist, historian, and politician. His most important work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published in six volumes between 1776 and 1789, is known for the quality and irony of its prose, its use of primary sources, and its polemical criticism of organised religion. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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