# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-long
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:01:25.042Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-long"
name: "George Long"
slug: "george-long"
description: "George Long was an English writer and classical scholar. He is best known for his books Meditations of Marcus Aurelius (1862) and Discourses of Epictetus (1877). Alongside Charles Knight, he was the editor of the Penny Cyclopaedia, and he was widely known throughout England."
tagline: "English writer and classical scholar (1800–1879)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/George_Long%2C_Professor_of_Ancient_Languages%2C_University_of_Virginia.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1800-11-04"
deathDate: "1879-08-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.15
  momentum:             15
  historical:           4.81026
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Long_(Altphilologe)"
    title: "George Long (Altphilologe)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Long_(scholar)"
    title: "George Long (scholar)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AC_%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%AF_(%D9%BE%DA%98%D9%88%D9%87%D8%B4%DA%AF%D8%B1)"
    title: "جورج لانگ (پژوهشگر)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Long_(universitaire)"
    title: "George Long (universitaire)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Long_(scholar)"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1507776"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump