prosopography
noun
[ ˌprɒsə(ʊ)ˈpɒɡrəfi ]
• a description of a person's appearance, personality, career, etc., or a collection of such descriptions.
• "Genet's prosopography of the members of the University of Paris in the Middle Ages"
Origin:
1920s: from modern Latin prosopographia, from Greek prosōpon ‘face, person’ + -graphia ‘writing’.
