The Most Influential People Across History
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List of the most influential people in History,
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Margaret R. Yocom
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Overall Influence
Margaret R. Yocom is a folklorist, and poet. Now emerita, she taught at George Mason University from 1977 to 2013 and founded the Folklore Studies Program there. She works in Maine. Early life and education Born in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, United States, the eldest child of Betty Keck and Norman Davidheiser Yocom, she first pursued her interest in folklore at Pennsylvania State University where she majored in English She went on to University of Massachusetts Amherst where she completed an MA. in English and then a PhD in English with a concentration in Folklore. While at U Mass, she wrote h...
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Lerna Ekmekçioğlu
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Overall Influence
1979 - Present (47 years)
Lerna Ekmekçioğlu is a historian and author of Turkish–Armenian origin. She is a faculty member at MIT. She works on the history of Armenians and Turks in the 20th century. Works
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Michelle Bubenicek
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Overall Influence
1971 - Present (55 years)
Michelle Bubenicek is a French medievalist historian. She was appointed director of the École Nationale des Chartes on 1 September 2016. Works Books 2002: 2013: 2014: 2016: 2016: Pamphlet 1996: Awards Prix Madeleine-Lenoir 2002 de la Société de l'École des chartes pour Quand les femmes gouvernent, droit et politique au XIV.
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Per Thomas Andersen
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Overall Influence
1954 - Present (72 years)
Per Thomas Andersen is a Norwegian literary historian and novelist. He was appointed professor at the University of Tromsø from 1992, and at the University of Oslo from 1993. His thesis from 1992 treated the decadence of Scandinavian literature of the period from 1880 to 1900. Among his other scientific works are Stein Mehren – en logosdikter from 1982, Norsk litteraturhistorie from 2001, and Tankevaser from 2003. He published the novels Hold in 1985 and Arr in 1992. He is a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
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Nathalie Beaux-Grimal
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Overall Influence
1960 - Present (66 years)
Nathalie Beaux-Grimal is a French Egyptologist, a research associate at the Collège de France and the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology in Cairo . She was educated at Yale University and obtained a Ph.D. in Egyptology under Jean-Claude Goyon in Lumière University Lyon 2 with a thesis on the Botanical Garden of the Precinct of Amun-Re at Karnak . From 1997 to 2005, she was French coordinator of Egyptology in the Faculty of Archeology at Cairo University in Giza. As part of the excavations of the IFAO, she participated in an expedition to the site of Deir el-Bahari, in collaboration with Janusz Karkowski of the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology of the University of Warsaw .
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Jerzy Snopek
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Overall Influence
1952 - Present (74 years)
Jerzy Snopek is a Polish literary historian and translator. He served as an ambassador to Hungary from 2016 to 2022. Life Snopek graduated from Polish philology at the University of Warsaw. He gained there also doctoral degree. In 1993, he received his post-doctoral degree at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, presenting a dissertation on the literary life in the Kraków area from 1750 to 1815.
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Günter Philipp
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Overall Influence
1927 - 2021 (94 years)
Günter Philipp was a German pianist, musicologist, composer and amateur painter. Life Born in Sohland an der Spree, Philipp grew up in Riesa, Oppach and Bautzen. Attracted by music and figure drawing, he was instructed by Rudolf Warnecke in nature study and visual art. In post-war Germany, forced labour damaged his left hand. Nevertheless, he became a student in Leipzig in 1947, a pupil of Hugo Steurer and Wilhelm Weismann . In 1948, he was able to enrol at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig and begin studying with Heinz Eberhard Strüning. For financial reasons, he had to break off his studies in 1949 and make a living as a freelance artist in Oppach.
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Piero Camporesi
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Overall Influence
1926 - 1997 (71 years)
Piero Camporesi was an Italian historian of literature and an anthropologist. He was a professor of Italian literature at the University of Bologna. Works Il Brodo Indiano La casa dell'eternità Le officine dei sensi Il sugo della vita Bread of DreamsLa terra e la luna: alimentazione folclore societa "Petrarca 66: l'aer gravato e l'importuna nebbia" "Giuseppe D'Alessandro poeta barocco tra seicento e settecento" "Biltri, blittri" Il tema dell'Adynaton nel Canzoniere del Petrarca "Una lettera inedita di Lodovico di Breme al Ginguene" "Documenti per la storia del romanticismo italiano: pensieri...
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Byrd Gibbens
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1936 - Present (90 years)
Byrd Gibbens is an American historian and professor. Career she was a professor of English at the University of New Mexico. Selected publications This is a Strange Country: Letters of a Westering Family, 1880-1906 Far from Home: Families of the Westward Journey by Lillian Schlissel, Byrd Gibbens, and Elizabeth Hampsten
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María del Carmen Rovira Gaspar
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Overall Influence
1923 - 2021 (98 years)
María del Carmen Rovira Gaspar was a Spanish historian, researcher and academic. She arrived in Mexico in 1939, after the National victory in Spain.
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Isaac Lipschits
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Overall Influence
1930 - 2008 (78 years)
Isaac Lipschits was a Dutch-Jewish historian and political scientist. He survived World War II by hiding from the Nazis and their collaborators. He published many books from 1962 to 2008. Books 1962: La politique de la France au Levant 1939-1941 1966: Honderd jaar NIW: het Nieuw Israëlietisch Weekblad, 1865-19651967: Het kapitaal: kritiek van de politieke economie; Dl.1: Het productieproces van het kapitaal1971: Simulaties in de internationale politiek1977: Politieke stromingen in Nederland: inleiding tot de geschiedenis van de Nederlandse politieke partijen1977: Ontstaansgeschiedenis van de ...
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Dagfinn Mannsåker
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1916 - 1994 (78 years)
Dagfinn Mannsåker was a Norwegian archivist and historian. He was born at Ullensvang in Hordaland, Norway. He was the brother of Bergfrid Fjose. He took the dr.philos. degree in 1955, on the thesis Det norske presteskapet i det nittande hundreåret. Sosialhistoriske studiar. He worked as a school teacher from 1954 to 1959, lecturer at the University of Oslo from 1959 to 1965 and national archivist from 1965 to 1982. He edited the academic journal Historisk Tidsskrift for many years, and contributed to Norsk Biografisk Leksikon. From 1966 to 1972 he chaired the Norwegian Historical Association...
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Jonathan R. Lyon
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Overall Influence
1974 - Present (52 years)
Jonathan R. Lyon is an American historian of medieval Europe. He is a professor of history at the University of Chicago. Bibliography Princely Brothers and Sisters: The Sibling Bond in German Politics, 1100-1250, Cornell University Press, 2012
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Luis Castro Leiva
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1943 - 1999 (56 years)
Luis Hernan Castro Leiva was a Venezuelan political philosopher, historian, writer and columnist. He is known for his televised speech on 23 January 1998 for the National Congress in which he warns against bolivarianism, cronyism and atavistic absolutism. He was one of the country's foremost advocates for democracy and an outspoken critic of Hugo Chávez, which he considered a populist. Castro is also credited with introducing rugby to Venezuela.
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Halina Szwarc
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Overall Influence
1923 - 2002 (79 years)
Halina Szwarc de domo Kłąb - was a member of the Polish resistance during the Second World War, working undercover first under the pseudonym Ryszard, then Jacek II. Postwar, she became a professor of medicine in gerontology, and in 1970/1971, the prorector of the Józef Piłsudski University of Physical Education in Warsaw.
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Patrick Johansson
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Overall Influence
1946 - Present (80 years)
Patrick Johansson Keraudren is a French-born naturalized Mexican academic, researcher and professor of Nahuatl language. He is a Doctor of Letters from the University of Paris. Since 1979, he is a researcher of the Institute of Historical Research of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and associate professor of Miguel Leon-Portilla in the Seminario de Cultura Nahuatl. Since 1992, he has taught Nahuatl literature at the Faculty of Arts at the same university.
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Alexander Anton
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Overall Influence
1922 - 2011 (89 years)
Alexander Elder Anton, CBE, FBA , often known as Sandy Anton, was a Scottish legal scholar. Biography Anton was born on 2 July 1922. He served in the Gordon Highlanders from 1941 to 1945 and then attended the University of Aberdeen, where he graduated with a Master of Arts degree in 1946 and a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1949. He then practised as a solicitor in Aberdeen for four years before working as a lecturer at the University of Aberdeen from 1953 to 1959. Anton was Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Glasgow between 1959 and 1973.
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Kåre Langvik-Johannessen
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1919 - 2014 (95 years)
Kåre Johannes Langvik-Johannessen was a Norwegian philologist, literary historian and translator. He was born in Onsøy as a son of manager Hans Johannessen and Betzy Langvik . He finished his secondary education in 1939 in Fredrikstad, and during the Second World War he studied piano and organ, and took commerce school. He enrolled in Norwegian studies at the University of Oslo in 1946, and graduated with the cand.mag. degree in 1948. The same year he travelled to the Hague to study Dutch language and literature. He took another degree at the University of Oslo in 1955 with the master's thesis Det bibelske drama i Nederlandene før Joost van den Vondel.
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Peter Krečič
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Overall Influence
1947 - Present (79 years)
Peter Krečič is a Slovenian historian of art and architecture. He is a specialist on the life and work of architect Jože Plečnik, and has published numerous books on this topic, including Plecnik:The Complete Works and Plecnik's Ljubljana. He is the father of the writer Jela Krečič.
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Hans Georg Beck
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Overall Influence
1910 - 1999 (89 years)
Hans-Georg Beck FBA was a German scholar, specializing in Byzantine studies. Biography He was born in Schneizlreuth, Bavaria in 1910. In 1929 he graduated from high school in Ettal. In 1930 he entered the Ludwig-Maximilian University, where in 1936 he defended his doctoral thesis in theology, "Vorhersehung und Vorherbestimmung in der theologischen Literatur der Byzantiner" , which was published in Rome the following year as volume 114 of the Orientalia Christiana Analecta series. In 1949 he defended his habilitated work "Theodoros Metochites. Die Krise des byzantinischen Weltbildes im 14. Jahrhundert" .
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Michael Foster
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Overall Influence
1965 - Present (61 years)
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Bjarne Hodne
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Overall Influence
1943 - Present (83 years)
Bjarne Hodne is a Norwegian folklorist. He defended his dr.philos. degree in 1973 with the thesis Personalhistoriske sagn. En studie i kildeverdi. He worked as a lecturer at the University of Oslo from 1975 to 1976, docent from 1976 to 1984 and professor from 1985. He was the dean of the Historical-Philosophical Faculty from 1991 to 1997. He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. In 2007 he became leader of the trade union Norwegian Association of Researchers.
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Tsiang Tingfu
1895 - 1965 (70 years)
Tsiang Tingfu , was a historian and diplomat of the Republic of China who published in English under the name T.F. Tsiang. Early life and education Tsiang was born in Shaoyang, Hunan. Tsiang's education from his teenage years had been Western and largely Christian, and he converted to Christianity at 11. Having been urged to study in the US by his teacher from a missionary school, he was sent in 1911 to study in the United States, where he attended the Park Academy, Oberlin College and Columbia University. His dissertation, "Labor and Empire: A Study of the Reaction of British Labor, Mainly as...
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Hugo Obermaier
1877 - 1946 (69 years)
Hugo Obermaier was a distinguished Spanish-German prehistorian and anthropologist who taught at various European centres of learning. Although he was born in Germany, he was later naturalized as a Spanish citizen in 1924. He is particularly associated with his work on the diffusion of mankind in Europe during the Ice Age, and in connection with north Spanish cave art, and resisted placing his science at the disposal of nationalistic and racialist interests in the Germany of the 1930s.
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Aldo Mieli
1879 - 1950 (71 years)
Aldo Mieli was an influential historian of science, and a pioneer of gay rights. Early life and education Born in 1879 in Livorno, Italy to a wealthy Jewish family, Mieli was raised in Chianciano, a small spa town in Tuscany, to which his family moved in 1880.
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Reginald Lane Poole
1857 - 1939 (82 years)
Reginald Lane Poole, FBA was a British historian. He was Keeper of the Archives and a lecturer in diplomatics at the University of Oxford, where he gave the Ford Lectures in 1912 on the subject of "The Exchequer in the Twelfth Century". Son of Edward Stanley Poole, the "Lane" in his surname comes from his paternal grandmother Sophia Lane Poole, author of An Englishwoman in Egypt . He was the father of Austin Lane Poole , also a historian and Ford's Lecturer; the brother of the orientalist Stanley Lane-Poole; the nephew of Reginald Stuart Poole; and the great-nephew of Edward William Lane.
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Robert Winslow Gordon
1888 - 1961 (73 years)
Robert Winslow Gordon was an American academic, known as a collector of folk songs. Gordon was educated at Harvard University. He joined the English faculty at the University of California at Berkeley in 1918. In 1923, he was asked by Arthur Sullivant Hoffman to run the folk music column "Old Songs Men Have Sung" in Hoffman's magazine, Adventure. Gordon accepted and used the Adventure column to collect information on traditional American music from the magazine's readers.
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Elias Joseph Bickerman
1897 - 1981 (84 years)
Elias Bickerman , also spelled as Bickermann or Bikerman, was a leading scholar of Greco-Roman history and the Hellenistic world. Biography Bickerman was born in Kishinev, then part of the Russian Empire, to a secular Jewish family. He left Russia during the Bolshevik revolution and the Russian civil war for Germany, where he received education from German classicists and Hellenists. Due to the rise of the Nazi Party to power and his Jewish heritage, he fled to France. He soon had to abandon that country as well after the Battle of France. Since 1942 he lived in the U.S. His research interests extended to Judaism and some aspects of Iranian history.
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Arthur I, Duke of Brittany
1187 - 1203 (16 years)
Arthur I was 4th Earl of Richmond and Duke of Brittany between 1196 and 1203. He was the posthumous son of Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany, and Constance, Duchess of Brittany. His father, Geoffrey, was the son of Henry II, King of England.
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Montagu Burrows
1819 - 1905 (86 years)
Montagu Burrows was a British historian. Following a career as an officer in the Royal Navy, he was the first Chichele Professor of Modern History at Oxford University, holding the Chair from 1862 until his death. He was probably the first academic to lecture on naval history at Oxford or at any university in Britain.
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Hayam Wuruk
1334 - 1389 (55 years)
Hayam Vuruk , also called Rajasanagara, Pa-ta-na-pa-na-wu, or Bhatara Prabhu after 1350, was a Javanese Hindu emperor from the Rajasa dynasty and the 4th emperor of the Majapahit Empire. Together with his prime minister Gajah Mada, he reigned the empire at the time of its greatest power. During his reign, the Hindu epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, became ingrained in the culture and worldview of the Javanese through the wayang kulit . He was preceded by Tribhuwana Wijayatunggadewi, and succeeded by his son-in-law Wikramawardhana.
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Giorgio Levi Della Vida
1886 - 1967 (81 years)
Giorgio Levi Della Vida was an Italian Jewish linguist whose expertise lay in Hebrew, Arabic, and other Semitic languages, as well as on the history and culture of the Near East. Biography Born in Venice to a Jewish family originally from Ferrara, he moved with them first to Genoa and then to Rome, from whose university he graduated in 1909 with the Hebraist Ignazio Guidi. Immediately after graduation, he participated in numerous research expeditions to Cairo, Athens , and Crete.
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Romesh Chunder Dutt
1848 - 1909 (61 years)
Romesh Chunder Dutt was an Indian civil servant, economic historian, translator of Ramayana and Mahabharata. He was one of the prominent proponents of Indian economic nationalism. Early life and education Dutt was born into a distinguished Bengali Maulika Kayastha family. His parents were Thakamani and Isan Chunder Dutt, a Deputy Collector in Bengal, whom Romesh often accompanied on official duties. He was educated in various Bengali District schools, then at Hare School, Calcutta. After his father's untimely death in a boat accident in eastern Bengal, his uncle, Shoshee Chunder Dutt, an accomplished writer, became his guardian in 1861.
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Evarts Boutell Greene
1870 - 1947 (77 years)
Evarts Boutell Greene was an American historian, born in Kobe, Japan, where his parents were missionaries. He graduated Harvard University , and began teaching American history at the University of Illinois, where he was also dean of the college of arts and literature. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1918.
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Albert Pollard
1869 - 1948 (79 years)
Albert Frederick Pollard was a British historian who specialized in the Tudor period. He was one of the founders of the Historical Association in 1906. Life and career Pollard was born in Ryde on the Isle of Wight and educated at Portsmouth Grammar School, Felsted School and Jesus College, Oxford where he achieved a first class honours in Modern History in 1891. He became Assistant Editor of and a contributor to the Dictionary of National Biography in 1893. His main academic post was that of Professor of Constitutional History at University College London which he held from 1903 to 1931. He ...
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Aizu Yaichi
1881 - 1956 (75 years)
Aizu Yaichi was a Japanese poet, calligrapher and historian. Biography Yaichi was born in the Furumachi area of Niigata, Niigata, and was a professor emeritus of ancient Chinese and Japanese art at Waseda University. His focus was mostly on Buddhist art of the Asuka and Nara eras.
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Viktor Novak
1889 - 1977 (88 years)
Viktor Novak was a Yugoslav Croat historian, professor at the University of Belgrade and full member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts , and a corresponding member of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts .
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Dimitrie Onciul
1856 - 1923 (67 years)
Dimitrie Onciul was a Romanian historian. He was a member of the Romanian Academy and its president from 1920 until his death in 1923. Biography Onciul was born in Straja, at the time in the Duchy of Bukovina, Austrian Empire, now in Suceava County, Romania. He studied at the University of Czernowitz, where he was active in Arboroasa and then in Societatea Academică Junimea, and at the University of Vienna. In 1884, he received his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Czernowitz.
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Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti
1754 - 1822 (68 years)
Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti , full name: Abd al-Rahman bin Hasan bin Burhan al-Din al-Jabarti , often simply known as Al-Jabarti, was a Somali-Egyptian scholar and historian who spent most of his life in Cairo.
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Marcus Lee Hansen
1892 - 1938 (46 years)
Marcus Lee Hansen was an American historian, who won the 1941 Pulitzer Prize for History for The Atlantic Migration, 1607–1860 . Biography Hansen was born in Neenah, Wisconsin. He was one of eight children born to Danish immigrant Marcus Hansen and Norwegian immigrant Gina O Lee Hansen . He received a BA from Central College, an MA from the University of Iowa, and a PhD from Harvard University, where he studied under Frederick Jackson Turner. He was Associate Professor of History and Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Charles Oman
1860 - 1946 (86 years)
Sir Charles William Chadwick Oman, was a British military historian. His reconstructions of medieval battles from the fragmentary and distorted accounts left by chroniclers were pioneering. Occasionally his interpretations have been challenged, especially his widely copied thesis that British troops defeated their Napoleonic opponents by firepower alone. Paddy Griffith, among modern historians, argues that the British infantry's discipline and willingness to attack were equally important.
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Otto of Freising
1109 - 1158 (49 years)
Otto of Freising was a German churchman of the Cistercian order and chronicled at least two texts which carries valuable information on the political history of his own time. He was the bishop of Freising from 1138. Otto participated in the Second Crusade; he lived through the journey and reached Jerusalem, and later returned to Bavaria in the late 1140s, living for another decade back in Europe.
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John II Casimir Vasa
1609 - 1672 (63 years)
John II Casimir Vasa was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1648 to his abdication in 1668 as well as a claimant to the throne of Sweden from 1648 to 1660. He was the first son of Sigismund III Vasa with his second wife Constance of Austria. John Casimir succeeded his older half-brother, Władysław IV Vasa.
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Harry Pratt Judson
1849 - 1927 (78 years)
Harry Pratt Judson was an American educator and historian and the second president of the University of Chicago. Biography Judson was born at Jamestown, New York and educated at Williams College , where he was a brother of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity . Judson taught at Troy High School in Troy, New York, from 1870 to 1885 and was professor of history and lecturer on pedagogics at the University of Minnesota from 1885 to 1892.
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Charles Webster
1886 - 1961 (75 years)
Sir Charles Kingsley Webster was a British diplomat and historian. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Crosby and King's College, Cambridge. After leaving Cambridge University, he went on to become a professor at Harvard, Oxford, and the London School of Economics . He also served as President of the British Academy from 1950 to 1954.
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Mieczysław Żywczyński
1901 - 1978 (77 years)
Mieczysław Żywczyński was a Polish historian and priest. He was a professor of Catholic University of Lublin. He was a researcher of the Church's history and general history. He was born in Warsaw and died in Lublin.
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Stanley Vestal
1887 - 1957 (70 years)
Stanley Vestal was an American writer, poet, biographer, and historian, perhaps best known for his books on the American Old West, including Sitting Bull, Champion of the Sioux. Biography Vestal was born Walter Stanley Vestal to Walter Mallory Vestal and the former Isabella "Daisy" Wood near Severy in Greenwood County in southeastern Kansas. Vestal's father died when he was young. His mother remarried, and Vestal took the legal surname Campbell from his stepfather, James Robert Campbell. About 1889, the Campbell family relocated to Guthrie in the newly established Oklahoma Territory, where he...
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Edgar Zilsel
1891 - 1944 (53 years)
Edgar Zilsel was an Austrian-American historian and philosopher of science. He is best known for the Zilsel Thesis, a scientific proposal which traces the origins of western science to the interactions between scholars and skilled artisans. The proposal melded practical experimentation with analytical thought. As part of the left wing of the Vienna Circle he endorsed historical materialism, and sought to establish empirical laws in history and in society.
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Joshua Prawer
1917 - 1990 (73 years)
Joshua Prawer was a notable Israeli historian and a scholar of the Crusades and Kingdom of Jerusalem. His work often attempted to portray Crusader society as a forerunner to later European colonialist expansion. He was also an important figure in Israeli higher education, was one of the founders of the University of Haifa and Ben-Gurion University, and was a major reformer of the Israeli education system.
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Franz Schnabel
1887 - 1966 (79 years)
Franz Schnabel was a German historian. He wrote about German history, particularly the "cultural crisis" of the 19th century in Germany as well as humanism after the end of the Third Reich. He opposed Nazism during the Second World War.
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