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#6601

Nicholas Adontz

Nicholas Adontz

1871 - 1942 (71 years)

Nicholas Adontz was an Armenian historian, specialising in Byzantine and Armenian studies, and a philologist. Adontz was the author of Armenia in the Period of Justinian, a highly influential work and landmark study on the social and political structures of early Medieval Armenia.

#6602

Furio Jesi

1941 - 1980 (39 years)

Furio Jesi was an Italian historian, writer, archaeologist, and philosopher. Biography The only son of "war hero" Bruno Jesi, Furio Jesi was an independent scholar of myth, Egyptology, history of Mediterranean religions, philology and archeology, most notable for his work on extending the ideas of Károly Kerényi including studies of the science of myth and the difference between classic Myths and "Technified Myths".

#6603

Boris Porshnev

1905 - 1972 (67 years)

Boris Fyodorovich Porshnev was a Soviet historian known for his works on popular revolts in Ancien Régime France and a doctor of social sciences working on psychology, prehistory, and neurolinguistics as relating to the origins of man.

#6604

Joseph Vogt

1895 - 1986 (91 years)

Joseph Vogt was a German classical historian, one of the leading 20th-century experts on Roman history. Following his studies at the universities of Tübingen and Berlin, he earned his doctorate in history in 1921 and his Habilitation in 1923. Subsequently he became Professor of Classical History at the University of Tübingen. He was Professor at the universities of Würzburg , Breslau , Tübingen and Freiburg im Breisgau , before he returned to Tübingen again in 1946 and taught there until his retirement in 1963.

#6605

Hernán Ramírez Necochea

1917 - 1979 (62 years)

Hernán Ramírez Necochea was a Chilean Marxist historian. In 1968 he became director of the faculty of Philosophy and Education in the University of Chile. Following the 1973 Chilean coup d'etat he went to exile in Paris, France where he lectured in the Paris-Sorbonne University.

#6606

Pinkhos Churgin

1894 - 1957 (63 years)

Pinkhos Churgin was an Israeli scholar who was the first President of Bar-Ilan University. Biography Churgin was born in Pohost, Belorussia, a shtetl near Pinsk. In 1907 he and his parents immigrated to Palestine, and settled in Jerusalem. In 1910 he went to study at the Volozhin Yeshiva. Churgin returned to Palestine in 1912. In 1915 he went to the United States and taught Hebrew. He studied as an undergraduate at Clark College, and then at Yale University, earning a Ph.D. in the field of Semitics, as a student of the famous researcher Charles C. Torrey. His dissertation, "Targum Jonathan to the Prophets", was published by Yale in 1927 and has since become a classic.

#6607

Jan Zawidzki

1866 - 1928 (62 years)

Jan Wiktor Tomasz Zawidzki was a Polish physical chemist and historian of chemistry. He researched mainly chemical kinetics, thermochemistry and autocatalysis. Zawidzki was a professor of the Akademia Rolnicza in Dublany , Jagiellonian University , University of Warsaw , rector of the University of Warsaw , member of the Academy of Learning , co-founder of the Polish Chemical Society and magazine Roczniki Chemii.

#6608

Liselotte Welskopf-Henrich

1901 - 1979 (78 years)

Liselotte Welskopf-Henrich was a German novelist and historian of the classical period. As a writer she concerned herself with two distinct cultures: that of Ancient Greece and that of the "North American Indians" . As an East German academic she was an influential authority on Ancient Greece. Away from the university she wrote novels concerned with the North American Indians which became classics of East German children's literature.

#6609

Boris Eikhenbaum

1886 - 1959 (73 years)

Boris Mikhailovich Eikhenbaum was a Russian Empire and Soviet literary scholar and historian of Russian literature. He is a representative of Russian formalism. Biography Eikhenbaum was born in Voronezh, the grandson of Jewish mathematician and poet Jacob Eichenbaum. His childhood and adolescence were spent there. After finishing elementary school in 1905, Eikhenbaum went to Petersburg and enrolled in the Military Medical Academy, soon thereafter in 1906, he enrolled in the biological faculty of the Free High School of P. F. Lesgaft. In parallel he studied music . In 1907 Eikhenbaum left this school and enrolled in the Musical school of E.

#6610

Nalini Kanta Bhattasali

Nalini Kanta Bhattasali

1888 - 1947 (59 years)

Nalini Kanta Bhattasali was an Indian Bengali historian, archaeologist, numismatist, epigraphist and antiquarian. Career Bhattasali completed his master's degree in 1912. He then joined the Comilla Victoria College as a teacher in history. After that he joined Balurghat High School as its headmaster. In July 1914, he joined Dhaka Museum as its curator, a position he held until his death in 1947. He wrote reports and research papers on the contribution of important objects to the history and chronology of ancient Bengal. East Bengal was his special field of study.

#6611

Ruth Ann Musick

1897 - 1974 (77 years)

Ruth Ann Musick was an American writer and folklorist specializing in West Virginia. She was the sister of artist Archie Musick and niece of writer John R. Musick. Biography Youth and education Born in Kirksville, Missouri, to Levi Prince Musick and Zada Goeghegan, Musick received a Bachelor of Science degree in Education from Kirksville State Teacher's College in 1919. From September 1919 to June 1921 Musick taught at Luana High School, Luana, Iowa, before moving to Garwin, Iowa, in 1921, where she taught at Garwin High School until June 1922. She then continued her education at the State University of Iowa, graduating with a Master of Science in mathematics in 1928.

#6612

Paul Kluke

1908 - 1990 (82 years)

Professor Paul Otto Alfred Kluke was director of the German Historical Institute London from August 1975 to July 1977.

#6613

Lawrence Henry Yaw Ofosu-Appiah

1920 - 1990 (70 years)

Lawrence Henry Yaw Ofosu-Appiah was a Ghanaian academic who taught classics at the University of Ghana and was subsequently Director of the Encyclopedia Africana. Background Ofosu-Appiah was born in a village called Kukua near Adawso in the Eastern Region of Ghana. His parents were Seth Fianko — a teacher and a descendant of the royal family of Kubease, Larteh, Ghana — and Agnes Fianko — also a teacher and a descendant of the royal family of Akropong, Akwapim, Ghana. His education started at Adawso Presbyterian Primary School. In January 1932, he joined Achimota Secondary School for his secondary education.

#6614

Peter Berglar

1919 - 1989 (70 years)

Peter Berglar was a German historian, professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Cologne, and was known for his many publications. His biography of Thomas More is considered one of the best.

#6615

Maurice Garland Fulton

1877 - 1955 (78 years)

Maurice Garland Fulton was an American historian and English professor. He was a professor of English and History at the New Mexico Military Institute for three decades. He was the author or editor of several books, and "an authority on the Lincoln County War and Southwestern history."

#6616

Paul Wentzcke

1879 - 1960 (81 years)

Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Paul Wentzcke was a German academic, archivist, and historian. He proposed a national flag for West Germany in 1948. The flag that Paul Wentzcke proposed for West Germany, called the "Republican Tricolour"

#6617

Julian P. Boyd

1903 - 1980 (77 years)

Julian Parks Boyd was an American professor who was Professor of history at Princeton University. He served as president of the American Historical Association in 1964. For his efforts in preserving the site of the Battle of Hastings, he was appointed an honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

#6618

Arthur Maheux

1884 - 1967 (83 years)

Monsignor Joseph Thomas Arthur Maheux, SM, OBE, FRSC was a Canadian priest and historian. He was a leading proponent of Canadian unity as well as a trenchant critic of Quebec society. He was president of the Société du parler français au Canada from 1924 to 1925 and president of the Canadian Historical Association from 1948 to 1949.

#6619

Viola Florence Barnes

1885 - 1979 (94 years)

Viola Florence Barnes was an American historian and writer, one of the most prominent female historians in the US in the first half of 20th century. Life Born in Albion, Nebraska, Barnes was educated at the University of Nebraska and Yale University. She taught at Smith College and Mount Holyoke College . In 1940, she was honored by the Women's Centennial Congress as one of a hundred successful women in fields formerly closed to women.

#6620

Leland Sage

1899 - 1989 (90 years)

Leland Livingston Sage was an American professor emeritus of history at the University of Northern Iowa. He was deeply interested in Iowa history, and wrote two books on it, both of which won national recognition from the American Association for State and Local History. In 1983, Sage was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters.

#6621

Henri Grégoire

1881 - 1964 (83 years)

Henri Grégoire was an eminent scholar of the Byzantine Empire, virtually the founder of Byzantine studies in Belgium. Grégoire spent most of his teaching career at the Université libre de Bruxelles. In 1938, he taught at the New School for Social Research and during the Second World War, joined the École libre des hautes études at the New School.

#6622

Eduard Castle

1875 - 1959 (84 years)

Eduard Friedrich Ferdinand Castle [kastle] was an Austrian-German Germanist and literary historian . He participated in the establishment of the Wiener Volkskonservatorium. He taught as a professor at Vienna University . He retired in 1949.

#6623

Walther Judeich

Walther Judeich

1859 - 1942 (83 years)

Walther Judeich was a German ancient historian. His grandfather on his mother's side was publisher Heinrich Brockhaus . He studied history at the Universities of Tübingen, Leipzig and Strasbourg. From 1886 to 1888 he took part in archaeological excavations in Greece and Asia Minor, followed by research in Rome, Pompeii and Sicily . Later on, he taught classes at the Universities of Marburg, Czernowitz and Erlangen. From 1907 to 1931 he was a professor of ancient history at the University of Jena. His successor at Jena was Fritz Schachermeyr.

#6624

Vasily Zubov

1900 - 1963 (63 years)

Vasily Pavlovich Zubov was a Russian and Soviet philosopher who wrote on architecture, art, and the history of science based on studies of texts from the Middle Ages and Renaissance. He received a posthumous George Sarton medal from the history of science society in 1963.

#6625

Costa Chekrezi

1892 - 1959 (67 years)

Costa Chekrezi , also known as Constantin Anastas Chekrezi was an Albanian patriot, historian, and publicist. Biography Chekrezi was born on 31 March 1892 in Ziçisht village, in the Upper Devoll region located near Korça . After finishing a 5-year school in his native village, he finished the Greek high school in the town of Korça on June 12, 1910. The school documents show he was awarded as "excellent student in all subjects", and earned a scholarship from the Ottoman government to attend the law school in Thessaloniki, now Greece. The studies were interrupted by the start of the First World War.

#6626

Garry Tregidga

1900 - Present (126 years)

Garry Harcourt Tregidga is a Cornish academic, director of the Institute of Cornish Studies at the University of Exeter's Penryn Campus in Cornwall, UK, and editor of the journal Cornish Studies. He lives in Bugle, near St Austell, and was named as a Bard of the Cornish Gorsedh for services to Cornish history, taking the name "Map Rosvean" - "Son of Rosevean".

#6627

Johan Carel Marinus Warnsinck

1882 - 1943 (61 years)

J.C.M. Warnsinck was a Dutch naval officer and naval historian. Johan Carel Marinus Warnsinck was the son of the notary Cornelis Warnsinck and his wife, Tettje Halbertsma. He entered the Royal Naval Academy at Den Helder in 1899 and was commissioned an officer in the Royal Netherlands Navy in 1903, eventually rising to the rank of captain in 1930. In 1919, he married Catarina Elisabeth Delprat and they had one son and a daughter.

#6628

Effie Mona Mack

1888 - 1969 (81 years)

Effie Mona Mack was an American historian, educator, and textbook co-author. She is said to be the only person to have received a Doctorate degree in History of Nevada. The Mack Social Science building at the University of Nevada, Reno is named in her honor. She received a bachelor's degree from Smith College, a Master's at the University of Nevada , and a Ph.D. from the University of California . She taught at the University of Nevada, Reno, and at Nevada Southern, which became the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

#6629

Hubert Essame

1896 - 1976 (80 years)

Major General Hubert Essame, was a British Army officer who fought in the First and Second World Wars. He was also a military lecturer, historian and broadcaster. Military career Born on 24 December 1896, Hubert Essame was the son of Ernest H. Essame of Wokingham. He was educated at Nottingham High School.

#6630

Bibhutibhushan Datta

Bibhutibhushan Datta

1888 - 1958 (70 years)

Bibhutibhushan Datta was a historian of Indian mathematics. Datta came from a poor Bengali family. He was a student of Ganesh Prasad, studied at University of Calcutta and secured the master's degree in mathematics in 1914 and doctorate degree in 1920 in applied mathematics. He taught at Calcutta University where he was lecturer at University Science College, and from 1924 to 1929 he was Rhashbehari Ghosh Professor of Applied Mathematics. During the 1920s and 1930s he created a reputation as an authority on the history of Indian mathematics. He was also deeply interested in Indian philosophy and religion.

#6631

Kurt Köster

1912 - 1986 (74 years)

Kurt Köster, also spelled Koetser , was a German librarian and historian. Life and work Köster was the son of Daniel Köster and his wife Emilie, née Loev. In 1930 he graduated from the Wiesbaden high school on Zietenring and then attended the Pedagogical Academy in Frankfurt am Main. Köster worked as a primary school teacher from 1932 to 1939 then studied history, historical auxiliary sciences, German and musicology in Frankfurt and Munich. On 9 September 1942 he was drafted into the German army. He received his doctorate on 12 February 1944 in Frankfurt on the subject of "The Colmar historical sources of the thirteenth century".

#6632

L. P. Wenham

1911 - 1990 (79 years)

Leslie Peter Wenham FSA was a British archaeologist, historian, and professor who excavated in York, on Hadrian's Wall and Malton. He was the first to produce a comprehensive report of a Romano-British Cemetery.

#6633

Noboru Niida

1904 - 1966 (62 years)

Noboru Niida was a Japanese academic, historian of Chinese legal history and Professor Emeritus of Oriental Laws at the University of Tokyo . Biography In 1925, Niida began his studies at the University of Tokyo, where he would eventually be awarded his doctorate. Niida was a professor and legal history scholar at the University of Tokyo. Among the students he influenced was Denis Twitchett, who studied with him in Tokyo in 1953-54. He is known for having written Chinese legal System which has been the subject of a multi-year process of translation into English.

#6634

Audrey Beecham

1915 - 1989 (74 years)

Helen Audrey Beecham was an English poet, teacher and historian. She was born in Weaverham in 1915. Her grandfather was Sir Joseph Beecham, 1st Baronet, eldest son of Thomas Beecham, who had created a fortune with Beecham's Pills. Her uncle was the conductor Sir Thomas Beecham and her father devoted time to spending his inheritance. She took PPE at Somerville College in Oxford. She left with a second class degree and went to live in Paris in the group that included Henry Miller. She made a lasting friendship with the writers Lawrence Durrell and Anais Nin.

#6635

Antonio Oliver

1903 - 1968 (65 years)

Antonio Oliver was a Spanish writer, poet, literary critic and historian of Spanish art. He was also a part of the Generation of '27, a group of artists and poets that specialized in the avant-garde.

#6636

Helen Sutermeister

1943 - 1979 (36 years)

Helen Sutermeister was a historian and archaeologist involved in the program of Industrial Archaeology in Ontario. Sutermeister was Curatorial Assistant in the Canadiana Department of Royal Ontario Museum, and was a founding “member of the Norwich Survey within the Centre of East Anglian Studies”. Since her early death , the Helen Sutermeister Memorial Fund was created and Helen Sutermeister memorial lectures are given at the Centre of East Anglian Studies of the University of East Anglia. After returning from Canada she married and settled in Loddon Norfolk whilst working at the University ...

#6637

Leicester Bodine Holland

1882 - 1952 (70 years)

Leicester Bodine Holland was an American architect, art historian and archaeologist and holder of the Carnegie Chair at the Library of Congress. Holland was born in Louisville, Kentucky, the son of Dr. James W. Holland and Mary Boggs Holland. His father was the Dean of the Jefferson Medical College; and when he graduated from William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia in 1898 Leicester Holland originally intended to also become a doctor. However, instead he went into architecture and after he received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1902 he gained a further Bachelor of Science degree in Architecture in 1904.

#6638

Louis Kollros

1878 - 1959 (81 years)

Louis Kollros was a Swiss mathematician. From 1909 to 1948 he was a professor ordinarius of geometry at ETH Zurich. Kollros, the son of a baker, was from 1896 as a student of mathematics and physics at the Zurich Polytechnikum, where he was a fellow student of Albert Einstein and Marcel Grossmann. After graduating in 1900, Kollros taught mathematics from 1900 to 1909 in secondary school in his hometown of La Chaux-de-Fonds. In 1903–1904 to 1909 he studied in Göttingen with Hermann Minkowski and David Hilbert. From 1904 to 1909 Kollross was a privat-docent at the University of Neuchâtel. He ...

#6639

Victor Tcherikover

Victor Tcherikover

1894 - 1958 (64 years)

Victor A. Tcherikover was a Russian-born Israeli scholar. Biography Born in Russia, he settled in Palestine in 1925. He was one of the first teachers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and headed the departments of general history and classical studies. He specialized in Jewish history in Palestine and Egypt during the Graeco-Roman period.

#6640

Milada Paulová

1891 - 1970 (79 years)

Milada Paulová was a Czech historian and Byzantologist, and the first female professor at Charles University, Prague. Early life and education Paulová was born in Loukov in Bohemia. Her mother died when she was three years old, and her father was the director of a sugarcane factory. When the factory went bankrupt, the family moved to Prague, where she completed her education at the teachers' school for girls. As the leaving exam for this school was not recognized by the university, she studied independently to take the final exam for Prague Grammar School, which she passed.

#6641

R. C. Majumdar

1888 - 1980 (92 years)

Ramesh Chandra Majumdar was a historian and professor of Indian history. Majumdar is a noted historian of modern India. He was a former Sheriff of Kolkata. Early life and education Coming from a Baidya family, Majumdar was born in Khandarpara, Gopalganj, Bengal Presidency, British India on 4 December 1888, to Haladhara Majumdar and Bidhumukhi. In 1905, he passed his Entrance Examination from Ravenshaw College, Cuttack. In 1907, he passed F.A. with first class scholarship from Surendranath College and joined Presidency College, Calcutta. Graduating in B.A. and M.A. in 1909 and 1911, respecti...

#6642

Garnie W. McGinty

Garnie W. McGinty

1900 - 1984 (84 years)

Garnie William McGinty was a historian whose career was principally based for thirty-five years at Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, Louisiana. Biography McGinty was born in Bienville Parish in north Louisiana between Ringgold and Bienville to Alonzo Eugene McGinty and the former Maude Leshe. He was educated in local schools and attended Baptist-affiliated Louisiana College in Pineville and received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Northwestern State University in Natchitoches. He procured the Master of Arts degree from Peabody College in Nashville, Tennessee. He also studied at Vanderbilt University in Nashville and the University of Chicago in Illinois before he received his Ph.D.

#6643

Ephraim Douglass Adams

1865 - 1930 (65 years)

Ephraim Douglass Adams was an American educator and historian, regarded as an expert on the American Civil War and British-American relations. He was known as a great teacher, with the ability to inspire teachers and researchers, and his presentation style was copied by Stanford historian Thomas A. Bailey.

#6644

J. A. C. Chandler

J. A. C. Chandler

1872 - 1934 (62 years)

Julian Alvin Carroll Chandler , usually cited as J. A. C. Chandler, was an American historian, author and educator. He is best known as the 18th president of The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, where he served as the successor to retiring fellow educator and author Lyon Gardiner Tyler. Dr. Chandler is credited with transforming the institution from a small, struggling liberal arts college for men into a modern coeducational institution of higher learning.

#6645

Joseph Bradfield Thoburn

1866 - 1941 (75 years)

Joseph Bradfield Thoburn was an educator, civic leader, writer, and historian. Education In 1893, he graduated with a bachelor's degree in agriculture from Kansas State University, and was largely self-trained in a variety of other fields, such as archaeology and journalism. In 1896, he moved to Oklahoma City. He did scholarship on the history of Oklahoma, joined the History faculty at the University of Oklahoma, served for 38 years, and was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame.

#6646

Charles Rowley

1906 - 1985 (79 years)

Charles Dunford Rowley was an Australian public servant and academic. Early life and education Rowley was born in Rylstone, New South Wales on 13 October 1906 and grew up in country towns of central New South Wales. Attending the University of Sydney, he graduated with a BA with first-class honours in English and history in 1926, and also gained first-class honours for his Masters thesis in 1939. He taught in State secondary schools from 1928 to 1938, when he was appointed a lecturer at Sydney Teachers' College.

#6647

Veselin Beshevliev

1900 - 1992 (92 years)

Veselin Ivanov Beshevliev was a Bulgarian historian and philologist. He was a correspondent member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences from 1941 to his death. He was the author of Old Bulgarian Inscriptions.

#6648

Oswald Redlich

1858 - 1944 (86 years)

Oswald Redlich was an Austrian historian and archivist, known for contributions made in the field of auxiliary sciences of history. Biography He studied history under Julius von Ficker at the University of Innsbruck , then studied historical auxiliary sciences with Theodor von Sickel at the Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung in Vienna . From 1881 to 1892 he worked as an archivist in Innsbruck, and in the meantime, obtained his habilitation for historical auxiliary sciences . From 1888 to 1912, with Emil von Ottenthal, he published the Archiv-Berichte aus Tirol . In 1893 he beca...

#6649

Ernest Lavisse

1842 - 1922 (80 years)

Ernest Lavisse was a French historian. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times. Biography He was born at Le Nouvion-en-Thiérache, Aisne. In 1865 he obtained a fellowship in history, and in 1875 became a doctor of letters; he was appointed maître de conférence at the École Normale Supérieure, succeeding Fustel de Coulanges, and then professor of modern history at the Sorbonne , in the place of Henri Wallon. He was an eloquent professor and very fond of young people, and played an important part in the revival of higher studies in France after 1871. His learning was displ...

#6650

Jawad Ali

1907 - 1987 (80 years)

Jawad Ali was an Iraqi historian and academic specializing in Islamic and Arabic history. He received his doctorate from Hamburg University in 1939 and is known for his book, The history of the Arabs before Islam which became one of the most referenced works on the history of Arabs before Islam. Jawad Ali worked in the Department of History at the Faculty of Education at the University of Baghdad beginning in the 1950s.

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