This man made lists, perhaps to cope with depression; a set of lists he published in 1852 made his name synonymous with a type of book

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This man made lists, perhaps to cope with depression; a set of lists he published in 1852 made his name synonymous with a type of book

Final Jeopardy Answer

The Final Jeopardy Answer is: Peter Mark Roget

Final Jeopardy Explanation

Peter Mark Roget was a British physician, natural theologian, and lexicographer best known for publishing the Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases, also known as Roget’s Thesaurus, which was a classified collection of related words. He created it in 1805 and released it to the public on April 29, 1852.

In the first edition’s foreword, he described his thesaurus as follows:

It is now nearly fifty years since I first projected a system of verbal classification similar to that on which the present work is founded. Conceiving that such a compilation might help to supply my own deficiencies, I had, in the year 1805, completed a classed catalogue of words on a small scale, but on the same principle, and nearly in the same form, as the Thesaurus now published

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