Polygraph (author)

<h2 id="polygraph-writers">Polygraph writers</h2>
<h3>Classical Antiquity</h3>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Xenophon/d3uAqxEu">Xenophon</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Philostratus_of_Lemnos/3pNruhjM">Philostratus of Lemnos</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Duris_of_Samos/SgUY6dpe">Duris of Samos</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Suetonius/djJaFVvM">Suetonius</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Apuleius/uVqvP52s">Apuleius</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Apion/DbdMehXX">Apion</a></li></ul>
<h3>Middle Ages</h3>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Abu_Nuwas/xfjLcLyK">Abu Nuwas</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Isidore_of_Seville/xyug04T2">Isidore of Seville</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Jacob_of_Edessa/Kuq3jtk0">Jacob of Edessa</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Al-Jahiz/nWx3G4vY">Al-Jahiz</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Michael_Psellos/LnKszCKS">Michael Psellos</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Bar-Hebraeus/nP2Ran1N">Bar-Hebraeus</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Piero_Valeriano_Bolzani/4fXj0yvQ">Piero Valeriano Bolzani</a></li></ul>
<h3><a href="/facts/Early_modern_period/hhpHM721">Early modern period</a> (1500-1800)</h3>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Carlo_Amoretti/49JdDjr7">Carlo Amoretti</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Jean-Fran%25C3%25A7ois_de_Bastide/xAjfamN8">Jean-François de Bastide</a></li>
<li>Giuseppe Betussi</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Jacques_Pierre_Brissot/FbB9NU6w">Jacques Pierre Brissot</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Gatien_de_Courtilz_de_Sandras/jkmLNDw4">Gatien de Courtilz de Sandras</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe/k5hW4Tw5">Johann Wolfgang von Goethe</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Ferdinand_Hoefer/F0CfSgPT">Ferdinand Hoefer</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Athanasius_Kircher/049o9hE5">Athanasius Kircher</a></li>
<li>Pierre-Jean Le Corvaisier [fr]</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Pierre_Louis_Manuel/ndXp5kkF">Pierre Louis Manuel</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Mathieu-Fran%25C3%25A7ois_Pidansat_de_Mairobert/9HvvVNWh">Mathieu-François Pidansat de Mairobert</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Nicolas_Edme_Restif_de_La_Bretonne/h42UQk0x">Nicolas Edme Restif de La Bretonne</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/C%25C3%25A9sar_Vichard_de_Saint-R%25C3%25A9al/gjApAVPt">César Vichard de Saint-Réal</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Francesco_Sansovino/wGE08QUH">Francesco Sansovino</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Charles_Sorel/KC8ktALG">Charles Sorel</a></li></ul>
<h3>Modern era (1800 onwards)</h3>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/August_Strindberg/q8yJVrWE">August Strindberg</a></li>
<li>Jean-Marie-Vincent Audin</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Arthur_Conan_Doyle/52dvrHvc">Arthur Conan Doyle</a></li>
<li>Pierre Gévart</li>
<li>Henry de Graffigny</li>
<li><a href="/facts/T._Proctor_Hall/hDIj4SYv">T. Proctor Hall</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/L%25C3%25A9on_Hal%25C3%25A9vy/d7rTF1T9">Léon Halévy</a></li>
<li>Vincent Labaume</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Paul_Lacroix/LAPdnDWD">Paul Lacroix</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Gustave_Le_Rouge/9DYmHtvJ">Gustave Le Rouge</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Simin_Palay/Cdbv84GG">Simin Palay</a></li>
<li>Christian Plume</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Claude_Roy_(poet)/S1sSKBGw">Claude Roy</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Ludwig_Tieck/M1aMTj40">Ludwig Tieck</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Isaac_Asimov/11oRajCj">Isaac Asimov</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Stephen_Jay_Gould/FtAcabjg">Stephen Jay Gould</a></li></ul>
<h2 id="other-usage">Other usage</h2>
<p>The term can be used in a pejorative sense to mean a <a href="/facts/Journalist/LADe3dzs">journalist</a> who writes on many subjects but without expertise in any particular one.  The composer <a href="/facts/Georg_Philipp_Telemann/AEwgm9r4">Georg Telemann</a> was considered, somewhat pejoratively, a polygraph by critics due to the vast number and variety of his musical compositions.
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<h2 id="notes">Notes</h2>

<ul><li>This article incorporates text from French Wikipedia, Polygraphe (auteur).</li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>"Definition of polygraph | Dictionary.com". www.dictionary.com. Retrieved 2020-12-12. <a href="https://www.dictionary.com/browse/polygraph" target="_blank">https://www.dictionary.com/browse/polygraph</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Richard Barrie Dobson. Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages: A-J (Editions du Cerf, 2000) p. 749 <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>Richard Barrie Dobson. Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages, Volume 2 (Routledge, 2000) p. 49 <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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