English

Noun

polyhistor ‎(plural polyhistors)

1. someone gifted or learned in multiple disciplines.
2. a universal scientist (generally in use to describe such a person when the term philosophy meant the entire summation of all scientific knowledge; i.e., generally from the ancient Greeks into the eighteenth century.)

Synonyms

• (gifted in multiple disciplines): polymath, renaissance man

Quotations

• 1997, Eckhart Gillen, quoting Henry Schumann, German Art from Beckmann to Richter, ISBN 978-0-300073249, page 289:

  [Carlfriedrich] Claus is an artist, though he does not like to call himself one, and a scholar. As such, he personifies the polyhistor, a species rarely found today.

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