polymath

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He was tutored by his uncle, Étienne-Jean Delécluze, a polymath painter, art critic and novelist.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 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

Alberti was a genius — a polymath who grew up in exile from Florence.

From Salon • Apr. 19, 2025

And fellow co-founder of Autonomy, David Tabizel, called Mr Lynch a "human supercomputer" and a great polymath with an inquisitive mind.

From BBC • Aug. 22, 2024

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