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About Edward Gibbon
Edward Gibbon was a British essayist, historian and politician. His most important and influential work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, was published in six volumes between 1776 and 1789, to critical and commercial success. It is known for the quality and irony of its prose, its use of primary sources, and its polemical criticism of organised religion.
Everything about Edward Gibbon →- Occupation
- historian, politician, classical scholar, writer
- Position held
- Member of Parliament of Great Britain, member of the 14th Parliament of Great Britain, member of the 15th Parliament of Great Britain
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Great Britain
- Born
- April 27, 1737, May 8, 1737, 1737
- Died
- January 16, 1794, 1794