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بنجامین فرانکلین

Also known as Silence Dogood, Ben Franklin, The First American, Franklin, Poor Richard

دانشمند و دولتمرد آمریکایی (۱۷۰۶–۱۷۹۰)

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Benjamin Franklin was a politician, publisher, printer, and postmaster born in Boston on January 17, 1706, and died in Philadelphia on April 17, 1790. He held citizenship in British America and the United States. Franklin served as the United States Ambassador to France and Sweden, and as United States Postmaster General. He was educated at Boston Latin School and was employed by the University of Pennsylvania. His religious worldview was deism.

Franklin was a member of the Royal Society, the American Philosophical Society, the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, and the French Academy of Sciences. He received the Copley Medal and was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He used the pseudonyms Silence Dogood, Poor Richard, and Richard Saunders. His notable works include *Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin*, *Information to those who would remove to America*, and early writings such as *Silence Dogood* and *the Busy-Body*. He was married to Deborah Read Franklin, and his father was Josiah Franklin.

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Born: 17 January 1706
Died: 17 April 1790
Works: 1518

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: Benjamin
Family name: Franklin
Gender: male
Citizenship: United States
Place of birth: Boston
Place of death: Philadelphia
Spouse: Deborah Read Franklin
Father: Josiah Franklin
Sibling: James Franklin
Occupation: philosopher
Educated at: Boston Latin School
Employer: University of Pennsylvania
Languages spoken: English language
Religion: deism
Participant in: Albany Congress
Field of work: physics
Sport: chess
Country for sport: United States
Image: Joseph Siffrein Duplessis - Benjamin Franklin - Google Art Project.jpg

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member of: Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony
Commons category: Benjamin Franklin
date of birth: 1706-01-17
date of death: 1790-04-17
topic's main category: Category:Benjamin Franklin
Commons Creator page: Benjamin Franklin
Commons gallery: Benjamin Franklin
name in native language: Benjamin Franklin
Y-DNA Haplogroup: Haplogroup V
pseudonym: Richard Saunders
cause of death: pleurisy
place of burial: Christ Church Burial Ground
writing language: English language
on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
P8168: Peter Neusel
has works in the collection: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
National Governors Association biography URL: www.nga.org/governor/benjamin-franklin
maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Mathematics
relative: Ann Smith Franklin
P12749: Paul E. Kahle
manner of death: natural causes

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Works in European collections

36 objects attributed to بنجامین فرانکلین, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

chair

The autobiography

Benjamin Franklin’s life and writings: after the original London edition, staged by his grandson, William Temple Franklin. 1, Franklin 's life: edited according to a description of his life, begun by himself and continued by his grandson, W. Temple Franklin; using his correspondence and other news

Benjamin Franklin’s life and writings: after the original London edition, staged by his grandson, William Temple Franklin. 3, Franklin 's views on objects of school and poor education, trade and public sciences and human and international rights

Dr. Benjamin Franklin’s abandoned writings and correspondence: along with his life. 5, essays mixed with content: with Franklin’s portrait in his housecode

Smoking the fireplaces and chimneys

Benjamin Franklin’s little writings: mostly in the spectator’s manner, along with his life. 2

Dr. Benjamin Franklin’s abandoned writings and correspondence: along with his life. 1, Benjamin Franklin “s private correspondence exchange: with Franklin” s portrait