Edward Gibbon is a/an -

• Edward Gibbon is a British rationalist historian and scholar.
- He is best known as the author of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776–88), a continuous narrative from the 2nd century CE to the fall of Constantinople in 1453.

Notable Works:
- A Vindication of Some Passages in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Chapters of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- An Essay on the Study of Literature
- Critical Observations on the Sixth Book of the Aeneid
- Memoirs
- The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: Britannica.