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Richard Hakluyt
English author, editor and translator (1553–1616)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 1552
- Died
- 23 October 1616, 23 November 1616, 1616
- Place of birth
- Hereford
- Place of death
- London
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Richard
- Family name
- Hakluyt
- Father
- Richard Hakluyt
- Movement
- renaissance humanism
- Occupation
- geographer, writer, translator, diplomat, historian, prose writer, scientific consultant, presbyter, theologian
- Position held
- chaplain, archdeacon
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of England, England
- Religion
- Anglicanism
- date of burial or cremation
- 26 November 1616
- described by source
- Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Library of the World's Best Literature, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- educated at
- Christ Church, Westminster School
- employer
- University of Oxford
- has works in the collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- name in native language
- Richard Hakluyt
- notable work
- Principal Navigations
- place of burial
- Westminster Abbey
- writing language
- English
Connected on Wikidata
Author of
- Principal Navigations
- Discourse Concerning Western Planting
- Divers voyages touching the discouerie of America
- The principal navigations, voyages, traffiques and discoveries of the English nation, Volume 15
- The principal navigations, voyages, traffiques and discoveries of the English nation (Volume 16)
- The principal navigations, voyages, traffiques and discoveries of the English nation, Volume 1
- The principal navigations, voyages, traffiques and discoveries of the English nation, Volume 2
- The principal navigations, voyages, traffiques and discoveries of the English nation, Volume 3
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