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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1577
- Died
- 1640
- Works
- 127
Top works
- The Anatomy of Love
- The anatomy of melancholy : what it is with all the kinds, causes, symptoms, prognostics, and several cures of it in three partitions
- A Full view of all the diseases incident to children
- Melancholy anatomised
- Ioan. Stvrmii, et Gymnasii Argentoratensis Lvctus
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1943-01-23
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 74
- Total plays
- 353
Robert Burton, age 19, is an upcoming songwriter in the college town of San Luis Obispo. His music is mostly acoustic and compares to artists such as the Rocket Summer, Making April, Chase Coy, Daphne Loves Derby, and Secondhand Serenade. He was born in the Bay Area of California and started music around age 16. And while he is getting a degree at Cal Poly, he hopes one day to be able to play music for a living. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Robert+Burton">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Development of the Colle-Salvetti correlation-energy formula into a functional of the electron density
· 1988 · cited 94,957x
- Hallmarks of Cancer: The Next Generation
· 2011 · cited 55,888x
- Research electronic data capture (REDCap)—A metadata-driven methodology and workflow process for providing translational research informatics support
· 2009 · cited 45,549x
- Regression Shrinkage and Selection Via the Lasso
· 1996 · cited 38,939x
- The PHQ-9
· 2001 · cited 38,336x
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Quotes
- “All my joys to this are follyNaught so sweet as melancholy.”
- “A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.”
- “The Chinese say that we Europeans have one eye, they themselves two, all the world else is blinde.”
- “I had a heavy heart and an ugly head, a kind of impostume in my head, which I was very desirous to be unladen of.”
- “I would help others, out of a fellow-feeling.”
- “They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works.”
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1577-02-08 ) 8 February 1577, Lindley , Leicestershire, England
- Died
- 25 January 1640 (1640-01-25) (aged 62), Oxford , Oxfordshire, England
- Resting place
- Christ Church Cathedral
- Pen name
- Democritus Junior
- Education
- Christ Church, Oxford ( BA , 1602; MA , 1605; BD , 1614)
- Notable works
- The Anatomy of Melancholy Philosophaster
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Wikidata facts
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- Robert Burton by Gilbert Jackson.jpg
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- Commons category
- Robert Burton (scholar)
- date of birth
- 1577-01-01
- date of death
- 1640-01-01
- pseudonym
- Democritus junior
- Commons Creator page
- Robert Burton
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Robert Burton (8 February 1577 – 25 January 1640; sometimes writing under the pen name Democritus Junior) was an English author and fellow of Oxford University, known for his encyclopaedic The Anatomy of Melancholy.
Born in 1577 to a comfortably well-off family of the landed gentry, Burton attended two grammar schools and matriculated at Brasenose College, Oxford in 1593, age 15. Burton's education at Oxford was unusually lengthy, possibly drawn out by an affliction of melancholy, and saw an early transfer to Christ Church. Burton received an MA and BD, and by 1607 was qualified as a tutor. As early as 1603, Burton indulged in some early literary creations at Oxford, including Latin poems, a now-lost play performed before and panned by King James I himself, and his only surviving play: an academic satire called Philosophaster. This work, though less well regarded than Burton's masterpiece, has "received more attention than most of the other surviving examples of university drama".