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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
Peter Christen Asbjørnsen
Norwegian author
Helen Archibald Clarke
American writer and editor
Julius Schwartz
American editor
Charles Dudley Warner
American essayist
Francis Horace Vizetelly
American-British writer
Richard White
American writer and critic
Charlotte Endymion Porter
American editor
Jørgen Engebretsen Moe
Norwegian author
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
English author
Karl Marx
Karl Marx
German philosopher
Desiderius Erasmus
Erasmus
Dutch humanist
Thomas Cranmer
Thomas Cranmer
archbishop of Canterbury
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
French writer
Origen
Christian theologian
Portrait of poet Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope
English author