polyhistor
Noun
Meaning
One versed in various learning.
Source: Webster's dictionarySynonyms
renaissance man
polymath
academician
clerk
savant
authority
brain
academic
scholar
philosopher
genius
erudite
pundit
mastermind
generalist
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The Celts In the 1st century BCE Alexander Cornelius Polyhistor wrote: The Pythagorean doctrine prevails among the Gauls' teaching that the souls of men are immortal, and that after a fixed number of years they will enter into another body.
The Pythagorean tradition considered the mathematician to have studied with Zoroaster in Babylonia ( Porphyry Life of Pythagoras 12, Alexander Polyhistor apud Clement's Stromata I.15, Diodorus of Eritrea, Aristoxenus apud Hippolitus VI32.2).