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Thomas More
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28 May 1779 - 25 February 1852
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Thomas More was born on February 7, 1479 in London. He is a well-known English humanist, writer and statesman.
Thomas grew up in a wealthy family of a London lawyer. He was educated at St. Anthony’s School. At the age of thirteen, he was accepted by page into the home of Archbishop John Morton of Canterbury. In 1492-1494 he studied at Oxford University. More then took a legal science course, attending law schools in London. At the same time, he studied classical languages – Greek and Latin, read
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Thomas More was born on February 7, 1479 in London. He is a well-known English humanist, writer and statesman.
Thomas grew up in a wealthy family of a London lawyer. He was educated at St. Anthony’s School. At the age of thirteen, he was accepted by page into the home of Archbishop John Morton of Canterbury. In 1492-1494 he studied at Oxford University. More then took a legal science course, attending law schools in London. At the same time, he studied classical languages – Greek and Latin, read the works of major ancient and early Christian thinkers – Aristotle, Plato, Augustine.
In 1502 he became a lawyer and a law teacher. In 1504, he was elected to the Parliament, within which he convincingly opposed the financial claims of King Henry VII. After that, Thomas was forced to leave politics for a while and return to the practice of law. In 1510, More again sat in Parliament, which was created by the new King Henry VIII. Thomas represents the citizens of London. At the same time, he is appointed assistant to the city sheriff.
More's first work was Utopia, which he began in Flanders and finished after returning home. Utopia was published in 1516 in Louvain. The first part of this work contains an analysis of the socio-economic situation of England, a description of the moral decline of society. The second book describes the ideal social system. To the third edition of Utopia, published in 1518, several poetic works of various genres were added - poems, epigrams and prose.