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polyhistor

English

(wikipedia polyhistor)

Noun

(en noun)
  • someone gifted or learned in multiple disciplines.
  • a universal scientist (generally in use to describe such a person when the term philosophy meant the entire summation of all scientific knowledge; i.e., generally from the ancient Greeks into the eighteenth century.)

    • Synonyms

    * (gifted in multiple disciplines) polymath, renaissance man

    Quotations

    * (rfdate) Henry Schumann, in German Art from Beckmann to Richter , page 289. *: [Carlfriedrich] Claus is an artist, though he does not like to call himself one, and a scholar. As such, he personifies the polyhistor , a species rarely found today.

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