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Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 17 January 1706
- Died
- 17 April 1790
- Place of birth
- Boston
- Place of death
- Philadelphia
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Benjamin
- Family name
- Franklin
- Father
- Josiah Franklin
- Mother
- Abiah Folger
- Spouse
- Deborah Read Franklin
- Sibling
- Jane Franklin Mecom, James Franklin
- Field of work
- physics
- Occupation
- politician, publisher, printer, political theorist, inventor, political activist, statesperson, diplomat, dilettante, polymath, chess player, designer
- Position held
- United States Ambassador to France, United States Ambassador to Sweden, United States Postmaster General, Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, President of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, Delegate to the United States Constitutional Convention
- Citizenship
- British America, United States
- Native language
- English
- Religion
- deism
- Awards
- Copley Medal, honorary doctor of the University of St Andrews, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- cause of death
- pleurisy
- country for sport
- United States
- depicted by
- Benjamin Franklin
- described by source
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Dictionary of American Library Biography, BEIC Digital Library, Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary, Library of the World's Best Literature, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), The American Portrait Gallery, A Dictionary of Eminent Librarians
- educated at
- Boston Latin School
- employer
- University of Pennsylvania
- has works in the collection
- Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- manner of death
- natural causes
- member of
- Royal Society, American Philosophical Society, Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, French Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Pennsylvania Abolition Society, Société d'agriculture de Paris, Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL, Academy of Sciences of Turin, freemasonry, Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony
- name in native language
- Benjamin Franklin
- participant in
- Albany Congress
- place of burial
- Christ Church Burial Ground
- pseudonym
- Silence Dogood, Poor Richard, Richard Saunders
- related category
- Category:Things named after Benjamin Franklin
- relative
- Ann Smith Franklin
- social classification
- slave owner
- sport
- chess
- topic's main category
- Category:Benjamin Franklin
- writing language
- English
- Y-DNA Haplogroup
- Haplogroup V
Connected on Wikidata
Author of
- Poor Richard's Almanack
- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- The Morals of Chess
- Fart Proudly
- Experiments and Observations on Electricity
- The Way to Wealth
- death and taxes
- A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain
- Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries, etc.
- The Drinker's Dictionary
- Petition from the Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery
- Franklin to Abbé Jean-Louis Giraud Soulavie
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