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A Short Biography of Edward Gibbon

Author Name:

Edward Gibbon

Born As:

Edward Gibbon

Other Names:

Edward Gibbon

Born:

27 Apr 1737

Died:

16 Jan 1794




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Historian                          
Selected Works:

Essai sur l'Étude de la Littérature  - 1761
Critical Observations on the Sixth Book of Vergil's - 'The Aeneid'  - 1770
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - 1776 - Volume 1
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire  - Volume 2 and 3 - 1781
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 4, 5 and 6 - 1788 - 1789

A Vindication of some passages in the fifteenth and sixteenth chapters of the History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - 1779

Mémoire Justificatif pour servir de Réponse à l’Exposé, etc. de la Cour de France - 1779.                          
Parents Edward and Judith Gibbon, six children, five of which died during infancy.