Short Name: | Thomas Browne |
Full Name: | Browne, Sir Thomas, 1605-1682 |
Birth Year: | 1605 |
Death Year: | 1682 |
Browne, Sir Thomas, born in St. Michael's, Cheapside, London, Oct. 19, 1605, and educated at Winchester, and at the Hall now known as Pembroke College, Oxford, graduating B.A. in 1626. He practised as a physician in Oxfordshire, Shipden Hall, near Halifax, Yorkshire, and at Norwich. In 1671 he was knighted by Charles II. at Norwich, and died there, Oct. 10, 1682. He wrote numerous scientific, antiquarian, and other works, including Religio Medici, 1642, and others, republished in Bonn's Library. The Religio Medici has been edited in the Golden Treasury series, Macmillan, 1882, with great fulness of detail. He is known principally to hymnology through his fine hymn, "The night is come; like to the day."
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Texts by Thomas Browne (3)![]() | As | Authority Languages | Instances |
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Praise the Lord of heaven, Praise Him in the height (Browne) | Thomas B. Browne (Author) | English | 1 |
The night is come, like to the day | Sir Thomas Browne, 1605-82 (Author) | English | 8 |
The sun is gone, like to the day | Thomas Browne (Author) | 2 |