Pliny, the Elder

Natural history in ten volumes
book chapter 1967

Summary: Gaius Plinius Secundus, known in English as Pliny the Elder, was a Roman author, naturalist, scientist, naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, procurator, and friend of the emperor Vespasian. Pliny wrote the encyclopedic Naturalis Historia, a thirty-seven-volume work covering a vast array of topics on human knowledge and the natural world, which became an editorial model for encyclopedias. He spent most of his spare time studying, writing, and investigating natural and geographic phenomena in the field. Wikipedia
Gender or Sex: Male [1][2][3][4][5]
Born: 0023 [2]; 0020s [4]
Birth Place: Como [2]; Novum Comum [4]
Died: 0079 [2][4]
Death Place: Stabies, Italie [3]; Stabiae [4]
Country: Rome [2]
Language: Latin [3]
Occupation: writer [4]; historian [4]; naturalist [4]; military personnel [4]; poet [4]; philosopher [4]; art historian [4]; civil servant [4]; military commander [4]
Encyclopædia Britannica: Biography [4]
Yale LUX: Entity [4]
Notable Names Database: Profile [4]
British Museum person-institution thesaurus: Entry [4]
Oxford Reference: Overview [4]

Sources: 1. VIAF; 2. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany); 3. Bibliothèque nationale de France; 4. Wikidata; 5. Library of Congress

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