Both versions of the work circulated widely and eventually Polyhistor was taken for the author's name.

A small museum dedicated to the well-known ornithologist and polyhistor.

Polyhistor's writings have not survived to the present.

The museum took the name of the famous polyhistor Ottó Herman in 1953.

Zeiler was very productive as an author, meeting the template of the Baroque polyhistor.

He was so productive a writer that he earned the surname polyhistor.

Parts of Polyhistor's work have been preserved in the books of two later historians:

Hístōr also implies that the polyhistor displays erudition and wisdom.

It contains material by Alexander Polyhistor, possibly direct.

The term was first used in the seventeenth century but the related term, polyhistor, is an ancient term with similar meaning.

He is called the Polish Polyhistor.

Terms such as polyhistor, polymath or even universal genius are sometimes employed as synonyms to the term.

Polymath: (also known as a polyhistor) A person who excels in multiple fields, particularly in both arts and sciences.

The most direct source of material on Berossus is Josephus, received from Alexander Polyhistor.

He is a polyhistor with a wide range of artwork, including drawings, paintings, graphic arts, Coat of Arms, and woodcrafts.

Eusebius was quoting Alexander Polyhistor, a Pontic historian living in Rome.

This version contains a letter that Solinus wrote as an introduction to the work which gives the work the title Polyhistor ('multi-descriptive').

In the 1st century BC Alexander Cornelius Polyhistor wrote:

Alexander Polyhistor's Successions of Philosophers.

(Such indirect quotations of Eupolemus via Polyhistor are referred to as Pseudo-Eupolemus.)

Jewish and Christian references to Berossus probably had a different source, either Alexander Polyhistor (c. 65 BC.)

Fragments of Chaldean History, Berossus: From Alexander Polyhistor:

Freudenthal, Alexander Polyhistor, Breslau, 1875 (Hellenistische Studien, i. and ii.)

Unger, "Wann Schrieb Alexander Polyhistor?"

Solinus in his Polyhistor repeated these descriptions, noting that the people of Thule had a fertile land where they grew a good production of corn and fruits.