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Robert Burton (8 February 1577 – 25 January 1640) was an English author and fellow of Oxford University, who wrote the encyclopedic tome The Anatomy of Melancholy . Born in 1577 to a comfortably well-off family of the landed gentry, Burton attended two grammar schools and matriculated into Brasenose College, Oxford, in 1593, age 15.
Robert Burton (born February 8, 1577, Lindley, Leicestershire, England—died January 25, 1640, Oxford) was an English scholar, writer, and Anglican clergyman whose Anatomy of Melancholy is a masterpiece of style and a valuable index to the philosophical and psychological ideas of the time.
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Robert Burton. Actor: Dynasty. Robert Burton, an Army brat, was born in Frankfurt, Germany. His parents were Robert Bentley Burton and Mary Klotz Burton. After his father's overseas Army assignment, they returned to the United States, finally settling in California.
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Robert George Burton (August 13, 1895 – September 29, 1962) was an American film and television actor. Burton was born in Eastman, Georgia . He appeared in over 100 films and television programs, and was best known for playing Tom Gipson in the 1956 film The Brass Legend .
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Anatomy of Melancholy, The, exposition by Robert Burton, published in 1621 and expanded and altered in five subsequent editions (1624, 1628, 1632, 1638, 1651/52). In the first part of the treatise, Burton defines the “inbred malady” of melancholy, discusses its causes, and sets down the symptoms. The second part is devoted to its cure.
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The Anatomy of Melancholy (full title: The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is: With all the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and Several Cures of it. In Three Maine Partitions with their several Sections, Members, and Subsections. Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically, Opened and Cut Up) is a book by Robert Burton, first published ...
In 1621, Robert Burton (1577-1640) wrote and published the world’s first psychiatric encyclopaedia, an exhaustive study which is the result of his life’s work. The Anatomy of Melancholy quickly became one of the most popular books of the seventeenth-century and is still an influential work in the study of mental illness and depression.
