polymath

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She was this extraordinary polymath from the 12th century who was a healer, a writer of revelations and an early environmentalist.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026

Later this month, the world premiere of Kurtag's second opera "Die Stechardin" about the 18th-century love story of a German polymath and a flower girl will cap the centenary of his birth.

From Barron's • Feb. 18, 2026

Legxacy is a mercurial figure – a musical polymath, defiantly original, who has largely stopped speaking in public, partly due to the tragic backstory behind his latest mixtape.

From BBC • Jan. 8, 2026

After leaving the military, Burkle became a medical polymath, qualified in five different specialties he felt would be necessary: emergency medicine, pediatrics, adolescent medicine, public health and psychiatry.

From Salon • Feb. 8, 2025

His father was a wealthy banker in Birmingham; his mother was the daughter of Erasmus Darwin, the polymath poet and doctor, who was also Charles Darwin's grandfather.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee