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

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

For all we know, Eric’s payback may be as much about that horse as Shelly, a thinly realized character who will ultimately neither help nor harm twigs’ brand as an entrancing art polymath.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 23, 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