Thomas Browne

Sir Thomas Browne (* October 19, 1605 in London, † October 19, 1682 in Norwich) was an English philosopher and poet.

Life

Browne studied at the University of Oxford and the University of Leiden and settled in 1636 as a general practitioner in Norwich, where he was beaten in 1671 by Charles II knighted and died October 19, 1682.

Browne was a friend of Arthur Dee.

Works

• Religio medici (London 1643; ibid. new edition 1881), a kind of philosophical creed, distinguished by originality and scholarship, which drew upon him the charge of atheism Translation: Religio Medici. Transferred from the English, edited and with an afterword by Werner von Koppenfels. Dieterich, Mainz 1998, ISBN 3-87162-044-0.

Total expenditure

• Works, including his life and correspondence. Edited by Simon Wilkin. 4 volumes. Pickering, London 1835-1836.
• The Works of Sir Thomas Browne. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes. 5 volumes. Faber & Gwyler, London 1928.