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John Aubrey FRS (12 March 1626 – 7 June 1697) was an English antiquary, natural philosopher and writer. He is perhaps best known as the author of the Brief Lives, his collection of short biographical pieces.
May 28, 2024 · John Aubrey (born March 12, 1626, Easton Piercy, Wiltshire, Eng.—died June 1697, Oxford) was an antiquarian and biographer, best known for his vivid, intimate, and sometimes acid sketches of his contemporaries.
Jul 14, 2010 · It isn’t everyone who has a set of holes named after them but then John Aubrey was one of the most intriguing characters to surface at Oxford University in the 17th Century. I’ve blogged before about the role Oxonians played in the founding of the Royal Society 350 years ago.
John Aubrey constructed an intimate and nonthreatening biographical persona, which allowed him to collect sensitive material about people in a politically turbulent period. He preserved documents and facts, but also anecdotes and “sayings,” as records of the human voice and the reputations of biographical subjects.
Brief Lives is a collection of short biographies written by John Aubrey (1626–1697) in the last decades of the 17th century. Writing. Aubrey initially began collecting biographical material to assist the Oxford scholar Anthony Wood, who was working on his own collection of biographies.
John Aubrey FRS (12 March 1626 – 7 June 1697) was an English antiquary, natural philosopher and writer. He is perhaps best known as the author of the Brief Lives, his collection of short biographical pieces.
John Aubrey (1626–1697) This Wiltshire-born antiquary made the first known accurate drawing of Stonehenge in 1666. He also identified ‘cavities in the ground’ which, 250 years later, were identified as pits and are now known as the Aubrey Holes.
