# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-selden
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:11:13.574Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/john-selden"
name: "John Selden"
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description: "John Selden was an English jurist, a scholar of England's ancient laws and constitution and scholar of Jewish law. He was known as a polymath; John Milton hailed Selden in 1644 as \"the chief of learned men reputed in this land\"."
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birthDate: "1584-12-16"
deathDate: "1654-11-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump