Pliny, the Elder

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Natural history in ten volumes
book chapter 1967

Summary: Gaius Plinius Secundus, known in English as Pliny the Elder, was a Roman author, naturalist, and naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of the emperor Vespasian. He wrote the encyclopedic Naturalis Historia, a comprehensive 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
Encyclopædia Britannica: Biography [4]
Gender or Sex: Male [1][2][3][4]
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]

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

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