Edward Gibbon
English historian
Died when: 56 years 264 days (680 months)Star Sign: Taurus
Edward Gibbon FRS (/'g?b?n/; 8 May 1737 – 16 January 1794) was an English historian, writer, and member of parliament.His most important work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published in six volumes between 1776 and 1788, is known for the quality and irony of its prose, its use of primary sources, and its polemical criticism of organised religion.
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