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Flourished	c.101 - c.300

Martial

Roman poet

Titus Pomponius Atticus

Roman author

Justin

Roman historian

Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm

German author, folklorist, and philologist

Wilhelm Carl Grimm

German author, folklorist, and philologist

Helen Archibald Clarke

American writer and editor

Peter Christen Asbjørnsen

Norwegian author

Richard White

American writer and critic

Charles Dudley Warner

American essayist

Francis Horace Vizetelly

American-British writer

Julius Schwartz

American editor

Charlotte Endymion Porter

American editor

Jørgen Engebretsen Moe

Norwegian author

Samuel Johnson

English author

Karl Marx

German philosopher

Erasmus

Dutch humanist

Thomas Cranmer

archbishop of Canterbury

Victor Hugo

French writer

Origen

Christian theologian

Alexander Pope

English author

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