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Robert Burton (8 February 1577 – 25 January 1640) was an English author and fellow of Oxford University, known for his encyclopedic The Anatomy of Melancholy . Born in 1577 to a comfortably well-off family of the landed gentry, Burton attended two grammar schools and matriculated at 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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically, Opened and Cut Up) is a book by Robert Burton, first published in 1621, [1] but republished five more times over the next seventeen years with massive alterations and expansions. Overview.
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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 Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Oct 5, 2010 · An article that explores the life and work of Robert Burton, a 17th-century Oxford scholar who wrote a vast and erudite book on melancholy. The article examines the medical, literary and historical sources of Burton's Anatomy, and its therapeutic and self-reflective aims.
- Michael Edwards
- 2010
Jan 13, 2004 · Robert Burton was the son of Ralph Burton, of an ancient and genteel family at Lindley, in Leicestershire, and was born there on the 8th of February 1576.
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.
