Horapollon

Egyptian writer

Person human Q364379

Facts

8 properties

Instance of: human
Sex or gender: male^[5]
Occupation: writer, grammarian, philosopher, historian
Languages spoken, written or signed: Ancient Greek^[13]
Copyright status as a creator: copyrights on works have expired^[14]
Described by source: Dictionary of African Biography, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Pauly–Wissowa^[8]^[9]^[10]^[11]^[12]
Floruit: 500^[7]
Said to be the same as: Horapollon^[6]

🏷️ Also known as

en Horapollon ar هورابولو ar حورابولو cs Horapollo cs Hórapollón cs Horapollon Constantinopolitanus Phenebythis cs Horus Apollo cs Orus Apollo cs Orus Apollo Niliacus cs Hórapollo de Horapollon de Hor-Apollon de Hor-Apollo el Ωραπόλλων es Horapolo he הורפולון it Orapollo it Orapollo Niloo ja ホラポロ pl Horapollo

🔖 Identifiers · 74

ISNI: 0000000371198002
VIAF cluster ID: 267152636160.7B (250.7M–8438159248180.8B, n=6)
Library of Congress authority ID: n84141023
GND ID: 11952516X
BIBSYS ID: 95002396
BVMC person ID: 70680
Babelio author ID: 367615
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID: 124596093
Biblissima authority ID: Espolla
British Museum person or institution ID: 32053
CERL Thesaurus ID: cnp01344670, cnp02009400, cnp02151360, cnp02154212
CIRIS author ID: 1089

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CONOR.BG ID: 22141541
CONOR.SI ID: 91697763
Canadiana Name Authority ID: ncf11351632
Catalogue of the Capitular Library of Verona author ID: 5379
CiNii Research ID: 1140282266834713088
Clavis Historicorum Antiquitatis Posterioris author ID: 851
CoBiS author ID: 95a5yja38danygjp8nb5yc1k74t36e0
DDB person (GND) ID: 11952516X
Deutsche Biographie (GND) ID: 11952516X
EBAF authority ID: 30275
EDIT16 catalogue author ID: 6490
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID: biography/Horapollon
FAST ID: 141896
Freebase ID: /m/07c27v
IdRef ID: 033762708
IxTheo authority ID: 080341454
KBR person ID: 14688225
LAGL author ID: urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2052
Lex ID: Horapollon
Libris-URI: dbqtxppx2cnv4jp
McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia ID: H/horapollo-or-horus-apollo
NACSIS-CAT author ID: DA09953914
NBM authority ID: 35545
NDL Authority ID: 001339812
NL CR AUT ID: mzk2007395121
NLP ID: a0000001684883
NUKAT ID: n2004022817
National Library of Greece ID: 173640
National Library of Israel J9U ID: 987007279365705171
National Library of Lithuania ID: LNB:wg0;=Bu
National Library of Poland MMS ID: 9810697145605606
National Library of Portugal ID: 1760204
National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID (BNE v1.0): XX954252
Nationale Thesaurus voor Auteursnamen ID: 069907862
Notable Names Database ID: 298/000102989
Online Books Page author ID: Horapollo
Open Library ID: OL42508A
OpenMLOL author ID: 96016
Parsifal cluster ID: 721823, 302486
Pinakes author ID: 1370
Provenio UUID: 1787fa13-fe3c-4da1-a399-f2ba851751e3
RERO ID (legacy): A000126232
RSPA ancient author ID: 1c4ece34f01da46e1c4c2859b0ebbd18aef2bee9
Rijksmuseum Research Library authority ID: 3028
SBN author ID: BVEV039238
SEARCH on line catalogue ID: 26759
SELIBR ID: 291418
SHARE Catalogue author ID: 439354
Sandrart.net person ID: 2953
Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts name ID: 615
Svenska Institutet i Rom ID: 35721
TLG author ID: 2052
Treccani ID: orapollo-niloo
Treccani's Enciclopedia Italiana ID: orapollo-niloo
Trismegistos author ID: 394
Unione Romana Biblioteche Scientifiche ID: 8940
University of Barcelona authority ID (former scheme): a1138816
Unz Review author ID: Horapollo
Vatican Library VcBA ID: 495/33316
Wellcome Collection concept ID: pbaejnd3
WorldCat Entities ID: E39PCjqPpBf7YDC8CmM9fbt4tq
Yale LUX ID: person/645d63ae-9a16-487c-b7a4-7ff84acfbd2f

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Occupation 3

writer, priest, grammarian

Described by source 2

Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition

Languages spoken, written or signed 2

Ancient Greek, Coptic

Instance of 1

human

Sex or gender 1

male

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Summary

Horapollon worked as a writer^[1], grammarian^[2], philosopher^[3], and historian^[4].

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Horapollon worked as writer^[1], grammarian^[2], philosopher^[3], and historian^[4].

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

8w ago · Synergates · 2026-09-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Date of death → —

Languages spoken, written or signed → Ancient Greek

Place of birth → —

Described by source → Dictionary of African Biography, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary +2

+ 1 other property edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)

"/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Described by source: Pauly–Wissowa"
8w ago · Carnby · 2026-09-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Date of birth → —

Place of birth → —

"/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Place of birth: Phenebythis"
14w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Biblissima authority ID → Espolla

"/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Biblissima authority ID: Q7079, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/a6710164cdc|details]])"
18w ago · Epìdosis · 2026-06-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Parsifal cluster ID → 721823, 302486

"/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Parsifal cluster ID: 302486, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/295421388|secolo 4./5 Horapollo (#295421388)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/8088|Parsifal p"
19w ago · Epìdosis · 2026-06-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Parsifal cluster ID → 721823, 302486

"/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Parsifal cluster ID: 721823, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/161589824|Horapollo (#161589824)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/6216|Parsifal persons]] #mi"
23w ago · Epìdosis · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Occupation → writer, grammarian, philosopher +1

"/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/32085|batch #32085]]: import P21 and P106 from GND (27)"
25w ago · Epìdosis · 2026-05-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Aliases → —

Occupation → writer, grammarian, philosopher +1

LAGL author ID → urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2052

Occupation → —

+ 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)

"/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/30848|batch #30848]]: match CERL IDs on the basis of GND (5)"

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