Izaak Walton
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English author and biographer (1593-1683)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1593
- Died
- 1683
- Works
- 188
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 4
- Total plays
- 7
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Measurements of Ω and Λ from 42 High‐Redshift Supernovae
· 1999 · cited 15,595x
- <i>Gaia</i> Data Release 2
· 2018 · cited 7,446x
- The<i>Gaia</i>mission
· 2016 · cited 6,410x
- Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults
· 2017 · cited 5,579x
- Global surveillance of trends in cancer survival 2000–14 (CONCORD-3): analysis of individual records for 37 513 025 patients diagnosed with one of 18 cancers from 322 population-based registries in 71 countries
· 2018 · cited 4,327x
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Quotes
- “But God, who is able to prevail, wrestled with him, as the Angel did with Jacob, and marked him; marked him for his own; marked him with a blessing, a blessing of obedience to the motions of his blessed Spirit.”
- “For love is a flattering mischief, that hath denied aged and wise men a foresight of those evils that too often prove to be the children of that blind father; a passion, that carries us to commit errors with as much ease as whirlwinds move feathers, and begets in us an unwearied industry to the attainment of what we desire.”
- “The great secretary of Nature and all learning, Sir Francis Bacon.”
- “God has two dwellings — one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.”
- “I have laid aside business, and gone a-fishing.”
- “Of which, if thou be a severe, sour-complexioned man, then I here disallow thee to be a competent judge.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Izaak Walton , c. 1593 , Stafford , England
- Died
- 25 December 1683 (1683-12-25) (aged 90), Winchester , England
- Notable works
- The Compleat Angler (1653)
- Spouse
- Rachel Floud ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. December 1626</span>"}]]}'>1626 ; died 1640 ) Anne Ken ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1641?–1662 )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Walton
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Stafford
- Place of death
- Winchester
- Occupation
- biographer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Image
- Izaak Walton.jpg
- Residence
- Chebsey
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- place of burial
- Winchester Cathedral
- Commons category
- Izaak Walton
- date of death
- 1683-12-15
- date of birth
- 1593-08-09
- name in native language
- Izaak Walton
- writing language
- English language
- has works in the collection
- J. Paul Getty Museum
- P12749
- Pierre Beaumarchais
Sources (3)
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Works in European collections
5 objects attributed to Izaak Walton, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
~16 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Walton's house at '120 Chancery Lane' occupied 1627–1644 (from Old & New London, Walter Thornbury, 1872) Izaak Walton (baptised 21 September 1593 – 15 December 1683) was an English writer. Best known as the author of The Compleat Angler (1653), he also wrote a number of short biographies including one of his friend John Donne. They have been collected under the title of Walton's Lives.
Born at Stafford around 1593, Walton moved to London in his teens, where he worked as a linen draper. In the capital, he befriended the poet and clergyman John Donne. A Royalist during the English Civil War, Walton returned to his home county of Staffordshire, settling at Shallowford, following the Royalist defeat at Marston Moor in 1644. Though Walton had returned to London by 1650, his experiences at Shallowford provided material for The Compleat Angler: a celebration of the art and spirit of fishing, first published in 1653. Throughout his life, Walton published biographies of subjects including Donne and Henry Wotton. These were later collected as Walton's Lives.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Izaak Walton” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.