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List of the most influential people in History,

#5101

John Childs

#58496

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (76 years)

John Charles Roger Childs FRHS is Emeritus Professor of Military History at the University of Leeds. Early life and education John Childs was born in June 1949. He studied at the University of Hull, from which he received the degree of BA, and at King's College London, from which he received a PhD with a thesis on the standing army of the Stuart Restoration.

#5102

Mary W.M. Hargreaves

#113642

Overall Influence

1914 - 2008 (94 years)

Mary Wilma Massey Hargreaves , a scholar of U.S. agricultural history, was the first woman at the University of Kentucky to reach the rank of full professor in the Department of History. Her areas of research included the agricultural history of the Northern Great Plains, dry land agriculture and land utilization. She was a Brookings Institution scholar, editor of the Henry Clay Papers and served in leadership roles in the Organization of American Historians, the Southern Historical Association; in 1975 was elected president of the Agricultural History Society. She also served as a local and ...

#5103

Luuk van Middelaar

Luuk van Middelaar

#47267

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (52 years)

Luuk Johannes van Middelaar is a Dutch historian and political philosopher. From December 2009 to 2014 he was a member of the cabinet of Herman Van Rompuy, the first full-time President of the European Council. Van Middelaar is best known for his book The Passage to Europe .

#5104

Dan Simonescu

#80026

Overall Influence

1902 - 1993 (91 years)

Dan Simonescu was a Romanian literary historian, bibliographer, folklorist, and librarian. His debut was in his late teens, when he accompanied C. Rădulescu-Codin during fieldwork in Muscel County, publishing his first contributions in the field of Romanian folklore. After graduating from the University of Bucharest in 1925, and publishing his first book, a collection of articles, in 1926, he became an assistant professor at his alma mater, and was also employed as a librarian by the Romanian Academy. Simonescu joined an editorial team headed by senior scholars Ioan Bianu and Nicolae Cartojan...

#5105

Alf Kaartvedt

#170862

Overall Influence

1921 - 2013 (92 years)

Alf Kaartvedt was a Norwegian historian. He was born in Bergen. He held the dr.philos. degree and was Professor of History at the University of Bergen from 1957 to his retirement in 1988. He was a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

#5106

Joe William Trotter Jr.

#84927

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (80 years)

Joe William Trotter Jr. is a Giant Eagle Professor of History and Social Justice and past History Department Chair at Carnegie Mellon University. He is an expert in African-American history. Education and career Trotter received his BA degree from Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Minnesota. He presides over numerous committees, including the Executive Councils of the Organization of American Historians and the Society for Historical Archaeology, the Program Committee of the Oral History Association, the Jameson Fellowship and Program...

#5107

Esther E. Wood

#144007

Overall Influence

1905 - 2002 (97 years)

Esther Elizabeth Wood was an American historian, educator, writer, and journalist. She taught history and social science at Gorham State Teachers College for 43 years. After her retirement, she wrote four books, a newspaper column, and numerous articles describing the history of Blue Hill, Maine, where her family had lived for generations, achieving local celebrity as the "town historian". She was inducted into the Maine Women's Hall of Fame in 1994.

#5108

Gordon Ogilvie

#116200

Overall Influence

1934 - 2017 (83 years)

Gordon Bryant Ogilvie was a New Zealand historian and biographer who wrote over 20 books, mainly about the people, places and institutions of the Canterbury region. He played a considerable role in uncovering the exploits of pioneer aviator Richard Pearse and popularising these for the first time through his 1973 work The Riddle of Richard Pearse. His other major biography, Denis Glover : His Life , was the first full account of this significant figure in New Zealand literature.

#5109

Patrick Bellegarde-Smith

#116500

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (78 years)

Patrick Bellegarde-Smith is a professor emeritus of Africology at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. Bellegarde-Smith is an associate editor of the Journal of Haitian Studies and former president of the Haitian Studies Association and the Congress of Santa Barbara , a scholarly association for the study of Vodou and other African-derived religions.

#5110

Michael O'Brien

#131341

Overall Influence

1948 - 2015 (67 years)

Michael O'Brien was an English historian, specialising in the intellectual history of the American South. He was Professor of American Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge from 2005 to 2015.

#5111

Richard Ayoun

#111387

Overall Influence

1948 - 2008 (60 years)

Richard Ayoun was a professor at University of Paris, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales , Jewish historian and lecturer in Sephardic language and civilization. Works consulted Typologie d’une carrière rabbinique L’example de Mahir Charleville, in Presses Universitaires de Nancy, 1993, 2 vol., 1004 p.Les Juifs de France de l’émancipation à l’intégration , in L’Harmattan, coll. « Judaïsmes », 1997, 320 p.Un Grand rabbin au XIXe siècle : Mahir Charleville 1814–1888, in Cerf, 1999, 545 p.The Judeo-Spanish people : Itineraries of a community, Paris, in JEAA, March 2003, 8...

#5112

Janko Prunk

#129431

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (83 years)

Janko Prunk is a Slovenian historian of modern history. He has published articles and monographs on analytical politology, modern history, the genesis of modern political formations, and the history of social and political philosophy in Slovenia. He has also written on the history of political movements in Europe from the end of the 18th century until today, especially about Slovene Christian socialism and the history of Slovenian national questions.

#5113

Wilhelm Agrell

#88548

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Hans Wilhelm Kristofer Agrell is a Swedish writer and historian within the area of peace and conflict studies. His authorship has mostly focussed on Swedish foreign, security and defence policy during the Cold War.

#5114

Mikko Juva

#170758

Overall Influence

1918 - 2004 (86 years)

Mikko Einar Juva was a Finnish historian, theologian and Lutheran archbishop. Biography He was professor in Nordic history 1957–1962 at the University of Turku and professor in Finnish and Scandinavian history and church history at the University of Helsinki 1962–1978. He served as rector of the University of Helsinki from 1971 to 1973 and chancellor from 1973 to 1978. He was also a member of the Finnish parliament 1964–1966 and the chairman of Liberal People's Party 1965–1968.

#5115

Johannes van Oort

Johannes van Oort

#102641

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (76 years)

Johannes van Oort is a Dutch academic who is the Professor of Patristics and Gnostic Studies at Radboud University, Nijmegen, and at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He is best known for his specialty in the study of St. Augustine, the gnostic world religion of Mani , and the Gospel of Judas. In 2006 van Oort presented, with the National Geographic Society, the discovery of this gnostic “gospel” to the Dutch speaking world.

#5116

Susan Schulten

#122440

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (57 years)

Susan Schulten is an American historian, and professor at the University of Denver. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a B.A., and from the University of Pennsylvania, with a PhD.

#5117

Frederick Dickinson

#130661

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (64 years)

Frederick R. Dickinson is a professor of Japanese history at the University of Pennsylvania. Career Dickinson teaches courses in the University of Pennsylvania Department of History on modern Japan, East Asian diplomacy, as well as politics and nationalism in Asia. The Japanese Ministry of Education, the Fulbright Commission, and the Japan Foundation have conferred grants upon him, and he was a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution and visiting research scholar at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies .

#5118

Albert Ronsin

#110956

Overall Influence

1928 - 2007 (79 years)

Albert Ronsin was a 20th-century French scholar, historian, librarian, and curator in Saint-Dié-des-Vosges. Historian He undertook historical research, especially about the Age of Discovery. He was particularly interested in the history of the name America given by Martin Waldseemüller to the continent that Amerigo Vespucci passed through and described. He studied globes and World maps of the early sixteenth, including Johannes Schöner globe created by Johann Schoener and Waldseemüller's maps.

#5119

Susan A. Miller

Susan A. Miller

#125150

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (47 years)

Susan A. Miller is an American Indian historian and past faculty member at Arizona State University within the American Indian Studies Program. She currently lives in Lincoln, Nebraska. She is member of the Tiger Clan and Tom Palmer Band of the Seminole Nation and attended the University of Nebraska. She has made important contributions to academia in respect to Native American history. As a historian, she has written pieces that look to educate the masses in America about the myths and lies that have been taught about Native Americanss since colonization. She has helped to retell history as w...

#5120

Robert Alan Goldberg

#143486

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (76 years)

Robert Alan Goldberg is an American historian. He teaches at the University of Utah and has written several books as well as articles and papers. Goldberg was born in New York City on August 16, 1949. He studied history at Arizona State University, and completed a doctorate in history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He began teaching in 1977 as an assistant history professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio. The University of Utah, where he has taught since 1980, has a collection of his papers.

#5121

Matt Houlbrook

#168423

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (50 years)

Matthew Houlbrook , known professionally as Matt Houlbrook, is a British academic historian who is Professor of Cultural History at the University of Birmingham. Career Houlbrook grew up near the Lincolnshire town of Scunthorpe, and studied history at the University of Cambridge before completing his doctorate at the University of Essex in 2002, for a thesis entitled sun among cities": space, identities and queer male practices, London 1918–57. He then spent a year as a Junior Research Fellow at New College, Oxford, and then five years at the University of Liverpool. In 2008 he was appointed...

#5122

Guido Ruggiero

#140564

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (81 years)

Guido Ruggiero is a preeminent historian of the history of Italy, from the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries. He is Professor of History and Cooper Fellow of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Miami, Emeritus. A master of Italian archival repositories, his work has forged new paths in the historical analysis of gender, sex, crime, violence, magic, science, and everyday life and culture. His later works also exemplify the fruits of combining the discipline of literary analysis with history. Ruggiero is one of the most prolific and groundbreaking scholars in his field. ...

#5123

A. J. A. Morris

#90897

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (89 years)

Andrew James Anthony Morris is a historian. He was educated at the London School of Economics and in 1974 was appointed Head of the School of Philosophy, Politics and History at Ulster College . In 1981 he was elected a Nuffield Foundation Research Fellow.

#5124

John V. Lombardi

#113038

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (83 years)

John Vincent Paul Maher Lombardi is an American professor and former university administrator. He is a native of California, and earned his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees before becoming a professor of Latin American history. Lombardi has served as the president of the University of Florida, the chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and the president of the Louisiana State University System.

#5125

Momčilo Spremić

#118669

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (88 years)

Momčilo Spremić is a Serbian historian and member of the Serbian Academy of Science and Arts. He is professor of General history of the Middle Ages at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy. Spremić specialized in the History of the Balkans, Italy and Spain in the Late Middle Ages.

#5126

James W. St. G. Walker

#92891

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (85 years)

James W. St.G. Walker is a Canadian professor of history at the University of Waterloo, and a historian of human rights and racism. Walker received his PhD from Dalhousie University in 1973. His publications have focused on the history of Black Nova Scotians, racism in Canada, the holocaust, and civil society. He created the first courses in African-Canadian history offered at a Canadian university.

#5127

Pasquale Chessa

#153242

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (78 years)

Pasquale Chessa, born in Alghero, is an Italian historian and journalist. He first appeared on cultural programs for the Italian National Radio and then, in turn, worked on the Italian magazines L'espresso, L'Europeo, Epoca and Panorama.

#5128

Hanan Yoran

#95589

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (62 years)

Hanan Yoran is a lecturer in the department of History at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Ahva Academic College and at the Interdisciplinary Center, Israel. Life Hanan Yoran studied for his BA degree in Mathematics and Computer Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and graduated in 1987. In 1999 he completed his PhD at the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas at the Tel Aviv University, under the supervision of Professor Rivka Feldhay and Professor Miriam Eliav Feldon. The title of the dissertation was: Erasmus and Thomas More between the Republic of L...

#5129

Perrine Simon-Nahum

Perrine Simon-Nahum

#117470

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (65 years)

Perrine Simon-Nahum is a contemporary French historian. Biography She is the daughter of Pr Pierre Simon. Holder of a doctorate in history , Simon-Nahum is responsible for research at the CNRS and associate member of the CRIA-EHESS. Specializing in contemporary history, her research focuses on Judaism and the history of Jews in France.

#5130

Helen J. Nicholson

#171328

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (65 years)

Helen J. Nicholson FRHistS FLSW is Emerita Professor of Medieval History and former Head of the History Department at Cardiff University. She is a world-leading expert on the military religious orders and the Crusades, including the history of the Templars.

#5131

Jacques Rougerie

#84599

Overall Influence

1932 - 2022 (90 years)

Jacques Rougerie was a French historian of the Paris Commune. Works Procès des communards Paris libre 1871 1871: Jalons pour une histoire de la Commune de Paris La Commune Eugène Varlin: Aux origines du mouvement ouvrier

#5132

Sarah Watts

#120062

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (83 years)

Sarah Lyons Watts is a history professor at Wake Forest University and author of the critically acclaimed Rough Rider in the White House: Theodore Roosevelt and the Politics of Desire, University of Chicago Press, 2003, and other publications.

#5133

Sarah Abrevaya Stein

Sarah Abrevaya Stein

#124376

Overall Influence

Sarah Abrevaya Stein is a prominent American historian of Sephardic and Mediterranean Jewries. She is the Sady and Ludwig Kahn director of the Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, Professor of History, and holder of the Viterbi Family Chair in Mediterranean Jewish Studies at UCLA. She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University and her B.A. from Brown University.

#5134

Peter Silver

#175529

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Peter Silver is an early American historian. Life He was raised in Richmond, Indiana. He graduated from Harvard College, magna cum laude, and from Yale University, with an MA and Ph.D. in 2001. He taught at Princeton University, where he held the Richard Allen Lester University Preceptorship. He teaches at Rutgers University.

#5135

Carl Abbott

#161993

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (81 years)

Carl Abbott is an American historian and urbanist, specialising in the related fields of urban history, western American history, urban planning, and science fiction, and is a frequent speaker to local community groups. Since 1967 he has been married to Margery Post Abbott, a Quaker scholar and teacher.

#5136

Wilhelm Baum

#121432

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (77 years)

Wilhelm Baum is an Austrian historian, theologian, philosopher and publisher. Biography He studied history, German language, and theology in Innsbruck, Rome, Mainz and Tübingen . In 1971, he became a doctor of philosophy and in 1999 in Graz a doctor of theology. In 1995, he taught medieval history at the university of Klagenfurt and at Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz. Now he lives in Klagenfurt, Austria, and works as a chief of a publishing house Kitab-Verlag, which he founded in 1999. He's a member of PEN club.

#5137

Łukasz Hirszowicz

#125596

Overall Influence

1920 - 1993 (73 years)

Łukasz Hirszowicz was a Polish historian, associate professor of the Institute of History, and expert on Middle East and Jewish issues in central and eastern Europe. Hirszowicz was born in Grodno and left "just before the war" to study at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He studied physics and Arabic as well as history. When he returned to Poland in 1948, he went to work at the Polish Institute of International Affairs, Szkoła Główna Służby Zagraniczne, which is the Main School of Foreign Service. He earned his doctorate at the Institute of History PAN and began working there in 1954.

#5138

J. Fred MacDonald

#148222

Overall Influence

1941 - 2015 (74 years)

John Frederick MacDonald was a professor of history at Northeastern Illinois University, and an archivist of historical films. Biography MacDonald was born in New Waterford, Nova Scotia, Canada a small coal-mining town on Cape Breton Island . His parents, Murray Dodd MacDonald and Caroline Pinkerton MacDonald, migrated to the United States in 1944: first to Boston, then in 1946 to Hawthorne, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. He was educated in local public schools, graduating from Leuzinger High School in 1959.

#5139

Margaret Creighton

#172112

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (76 years)

Margaret S. Creighton is an American historian, writer, and professor emerita at Bates College in Maine. She is the author of many articles, essays and several award-winning books including Rites and Passages: The Experience of American Whaling, 1830-1870 , The Colors of Courage: Gettysburg's Forgotten History: Immigrants, Women, And African Americans in the Civil War's Defining Battle , The Electrifying Fall of Rainbow City: Spectacle and Assassination at the 1901 World's Fair , and with Lisa Norling edited the collection Iron Men, Wooden Women: Gender and Seafaring in the Atlantic World, 170...

#5140

Dorothy J. Thompson

#110178

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (86 years)

Dorothy Joan Thompson, is an ancient historian and classicist who specialises in the culture and society of Hellenistic Egypt, the early Hellenistic world, and documentary papyrology. Career In her research and writing Thompson employs the evidence of papyri to look at social and economic questions; she is further concerned with relations between the different ethnic groups of Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt. She has taught extensively at Cambridge with a visiting professorship in 1996 at Princeton University. She was a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton in 1982–1983 as well as a Fellow of the National Humanities Center, North Carolina in 1993–1994.

#5141

Arvydas Anušauskas

#122573

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (62 years)

Arvydas Anušauskas is a Lithuanian politician and historian. He focuses on the history of the interwar Lithuanian secret services, KGB actions in Lithuania, and Soviet repressions in Lithuania. As a member of the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats, he was elected to the Seimas in 2008 and reelected in 2012, 2016 and 2020.

#5142

José Ramón Hinojosa Montalvo

#170014

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (78 years)

José Ramón Hinojosa Montalvo is a historian and Professor of Medieval History at the University of Alicante in Spain. He is also Academic Correspondent of the Real Academia de la Historia. Works El Mediterráneo medieval The Jews in the Kingdom of València, from the persecution to expulsion Diccionario de historia medieval del Reino de Valencia

#5143

Arnošt Klíma

#116602

Overall Influence

1916 - 2000 (84 years)

Arnošt Klíma, PhDr., DrSc. , was a historian, most noted for his work on the economic and social history of the Czech-speaking region in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. He was a member correspondent of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and professor of the Philosophical Faculty of the Charles University in Prague. He also translated extensively from German. He is particularly noted in Anglophone scholarship for his contribution to the Brenner Debate on the origins of capitalism.

#5144

Judith R. Goodstein

#45602

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (86 years)

Judith Ronnie Goodstein is an American historian of science, historian of mathematics, archivist, and book author. She worked for many years at the California Institute of Technology , where she is University Archivist Emeritus.

#5145

Ge Jianxiong

#115311

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (80 years)

Ge Jianxiong is a Chinese historical geographer. He is a professor and the former Director of the Institute of Historical Geography of Fudan University in Shanghai, and Director of the Fudan University Library. His research focus is on historical population movements and human geography. Ge is also a well-known public figure in China. He is a member of the Standing Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and is on the Advisory Committee of the Shanghai Municipal Government.

#5146

Lynn K. Nyhart

#103166

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (25 years)

Lynn K. Nyhart is the Vilas-Bablitch-Kelch Distinguished Achievement Professor in the Department of the History of Science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She served as president of the History of Science Society from 2012 to 2013. Her main areas of interest are the history of biology, international transfer of ideas, relations between elite and popular science, and theories of individuality, parts, and wholes. Her book Modern Nature: The Rise of the Biological Perspective in Germany received the Susan E. Abrams Prize in 2009.

#5147

E. M. Rose

#99864

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (66 years)

E. M. Rose is a historian of medieval and early modern England and a journalist, and the inaugural visiting scholar in the Program in Medieval Studies at Harvard University, best known for the book The Murder of William of Norwich. Rose worked as a producer at CNN for a decade prior to beginning a career as a historian. She has taught at Princeton University, Johns Hopkins, Villanova, and Baruch College.

#5148

K. W. Swart

#135833

Overall Influence

1916 - 1992 (76 years)

Koenraad Wolter Swart was a Dutch-American historian, best known for his work on the role of William of Orange in the Dutch Revolt, and for his doctoral dissertation on the relationship between the state and state functionaries in the seventeenth century.

#5149

Thomas S. Burns

#107018

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (80 years)

Thomas Samuel Burns is an American historian who is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor Emeritus of Late Ancient and Medieval History at Emory University. He specializes on relations between "barbarians" and Romans in classical antiquity.

#5150

Sami Saeed Al Ahmed

#135250

Overall Influence

1930 - 2006 (76 years)

Sami Saeed al-Ahmad 1930–2006 was a historian in Ancient history of the Middle east. He was born in 1930 in Hillah , Iraq, where he had received primary and secondary education, and in 1953 received a bachelor's degree in history from the University of Baghdad, and a point well in his career, including the University of Chicago received a master's degree in 1957 and doctorate from the University of Michigan in 1962, he was appointed professor at the University of Denver in Colorado in America in 1963 -1967. He returned to Iraq in the late sixties and was appointed professor at Baghdad Univer...

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