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#6901

Stanislas Bormans

1835 - 1912 (77 years)

Stanislas Marie Bormans was a Belgian archivist and historian. Life Bormans was born in Hasselt on 2 February 1835. When he was a few months old, his father, Jean-Henri Bormans, was appointed a professor at the University of Ghent. Two years later he transferred to the University of Liège.

#6902

Richard Millman

1932 - 1983 (51 years)

Richard Millman was an American historian at the University of Illinois. Millman was appointed instructor at Temple University for 1960–1961. His 1979 work on Benjamin Disraeli's policy during the Great Eastern Crisis of 1875–78 was called the "authoritative account" by M. R. D. Foot and a "masterly achievement" by John Vincent. According to Richard Shannon, Millman "challenges the Seton-Watsonian tradition and boldly essays to restore the credibility of Disraeli's attempt to reassert the Palmerstonian tradition of maintaining the independence and integrity of the Ottoman Empire as a capital...

#6903

Tache Papahagi

1892 - 1977 (85 years)

Tache Papahagi was an Aromanian folklorist and linguist. He was born into an Aromanian family in Avdella , a village that formed part of the Ottoman Empire's Manastir Vilayet and is now in Greece. He attended primary school in his native village, followed from 1902 to 1912 by studies at the Romanian high schools in Ioannina and Bitola. From 1912 to 1916, he went to the literature and philosophy faculty of the University of Bucharest in Romania. In 1925, he obtained a doctorate in philology from the same institution; his thesis dealt with the Maramureș dialect and folklore. He was a high school teacher at Târgu Neamț from 1916 to 1918.

#6904

Herbert Krause

1905 - 1976 (71 years)

Herbert Arthur Krause was an American historian, author and college professor. He was born and educated in Minnesota and South Dakota, where he taught and wrote. He was the author of novels, plays, poems, essays, and reviews. He also worked towards preservation of cultural heritage.

#6905

Karl Helm

1871 - 1960 (89 years)

Karl Helm was a German philologist who specialized in Germanic studies Biography Karl Helm was born in Karlsruhe, Germany on 19 May 1871. He studied German philology in Heidelberg and Freiburg, earning his doctorate in 1895 with a study on 16th-century poetry.

#6906

James Hight

1870 - 1958 (88 years)

Sir James Hight was a New Zealand university professor, educational administrator and historian. He was born in Halswell in Christchurch, New Zealand on 3 November 1870. He died on 17 May 1958 and is buried at Linwood Cemetery.

#6907

Anatol Lewicki

1841 - 1899 (58 years)

Anatol Lewicki was a Polish historian. Anatol Lewicki was son of Grzegorz Lewicki, Greek-Catholic provost in Prysowce. He was buried at the Rakowicki Cemetery in Kraków. Footnotes External links

#6908

Gerard Geldenhouwer

Gerard Geldenhouwer

1482 - 1542 (60 years)

Gerardus Geldenhouwer was a Dutch historian and Protestant reformer. Geldenhouwer descended from a patrician family of Nijmegen, where he was born. His father, also named Gerard, was chamberservant at the court of Arnold of Egmond and Adolf of Egmond, dukes of Guelders. He followed an education at the Latin school in Deventer, before he joined the Augustinians. After this he studied at Leuven. Here he wrote his first publications, amongst which are a collection of Satires in the trend of Erasmus' Praise of Folly. In this period he also oversaw the printing of several works of Erasmus and Thom...

#6909

Pieter Lodewijk Muller

Pieter Lodewijk Muller

1842 - 1904 (62 years)

Pieter Lodewijk Muller was a Dutch historian. He published numerous works of history and also contributed nearly two hundred entries to the German Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie . Life Muller was born in Koog aan de Zaan , the third son of Christiaan Muller and Isabella Muller de Cercq . Christiaan Muller was a Mennonite preacher in Koog aan de Zaan and Zaandijk. His mother, who came from a prosperous Dutch family, died when he was only two. The Muller name, written in older documents as Müller, reflected the family's German provenance. Pieter's grandfather, Samuel, and his great uncle, Johannes, had relocated around 1800 from Krefeld to Amsterdam to set up a bookshop.

#6910

Paulus Merula

1558 - 1607 (49 years)

Paulus Merula, or Paul van Merle was a Dutch jurist, classicist, historian, geographer and librarian. In 1592 he was appointed professor of history at Leiden University, and was elevated to full professor in 1593. From 1597 until his death he was librarian to Leiden University Library, and in 1603 he was appointed rector magnificus of the university. He was friends with Janus Dousa and Daniël Heinsius, and was a Leiden contemporary of the humanist Joseph Justus Scaliger.

#6911

Annette Jocelyn Otway-Ruthven

1909 - 1989 (80 years)

Annette Jocelyn Otway-Ruthven was an Irish historian specialising in medieval Irish history, and was among the earliest female academics appointed in Trinity College Dublin. Family Otway-Ruthven was the daughter of Captain Robert Mervyn Bermingham Otway-Ruthven , Royal Artillery, of Castle Otway, County Tipperary, and Margaret Casement , of Cronroe, County Wicklow. She had three sisters and a brother; two of her sisters died young. Through her mother Otway-Ruthven was related to Roger Casement.

#6912

Carlo Malagola

1855 - 1910 (55 years)

Carlo Malagola was a 19th-century Italian historian. Among others, he studied the archives of Bologna, and the life of Antonio Urceo , called Codro , who had taught Greek to Nicolaus Copernicus. Malagola discovered that according to the note Dominus Nicolaus Kopperlingk de Thorn - IX grossetos the young Prussian had enrolled in the Acta nationis Germanorum at Bologna in 1496 for the fee of 9 Groschen.

#6913

Émile Gebhart

1839 - 1908 (69 years)

Émile Gebhart was a French academic and writer, He was elected to the Académie Française in 1905. He was attacked by Radicals for his religious and patriotic ideals. Life He was the grand-nephew of General Drouot. Having finished his studies in the lycée of Nancy, he was admitted to the École Française of Athens, where he researched future works. When he returned to France he was sent to the lycée of Nice and soon after appointed professor of foreign literature in the University of Nancy.

#6914

Jean de Serres

1540 - 1598 (58 years)

Jean de Serres was a major French historian and an advisor to King Henry IV during the Wars of Religion that marred the French Reformation in the second half of the Sixteenth Century. As a refugee from religious persecution, he was educated in Switzerland and became a Calvinist pastor, humanist, poet, polemicist, and diplomat. His complete translation of Plato appeared in the famous 1578 edition published by Henri Estienne, which is the source of the standard 'Stephanus numbers' still used by scholars to refer to Plato's works. In 1596, de Serres was appointed 'Historian of France' by King Henry IV.

#6915

Niels Krag

1568 - 1602 (34 years)

Niels Krag , was a Danish academic and diplomat. Krag was a Doctor of Divinity, Professor at the University of Copenhagen, and historiographer Royal. Mission to Scotland In August 1589 the Danish council decided that Peder Munk, Breide Rantzau, Dr Paul Knibbe, and Niels Krag would accompany Anne of Denmark, the bride of James VI, to Scotland. After several mishaps, poor weather, and "contrary winds" they decided to stay at Oslo over the winter.

#6916

Stanisław Zakrzewski

Stanisław Zakrzewski

1873 - 1936 (63 years)

Stanisław Zakrzewski was a Polish historian. He was a professor of Lviv University , member of Polish Academy of Learning , chairman of Polish Historical Society , senator from Non-partisan Bloc for Cooperation with the Government . Zakrzewski was associated with National Democracy, then with Józef Piłsudski.

#6917

Aage Skavlan

1847 - 1920 (73 years)

Aage Gerhard Skavlan was a Norwegian historian. He was born in Herøy as a son of dean Aage Schavland and his wife Gerhardine Pauline Bergh . He was a great-grandnephew of vicar Jacob Schavland, nephew of vicar Gerhard B. Bergh and a brother of Sigvald Skavlan, Einar Skavlan, Sr., Olaf Skavlan and Harald Skavlan.

#6918

Elizabeth Hamer Kegan

Elizabeth Hamer Kegan

1912 - 1979 (67 years)

Elizabeth "Betty" Edwards Hamer Kegan was an American archivist and librarian, and served as the Assistant Librarian of Congress from 1963 to 1978. She was a founding member of the Society of American Archivists in 1936 and was President of SAA from 1975-1976.

#6919

Paul Petit

1914 - 1981 (67 years)

Paul Petit was a 20th-century French historian, a specialist in ancient Rome. He was a professor at the University of Grenoble. Paul Petit's books covered a multitude of issues in relation to Rome and the , For example, in his book Histoire générale de l'Empire romain, pages 178–179, he dealt with the Cursus honorum of a senator's son.

#6920

Jean Meuvret

1901 - 1971 (70 years)

Jean Meuvret was a historian of early modern France. He was a tutor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure and was known in Europe and America for his pioneering studies of the French economy in the seventeenth century. His most important work, Le problème des subsistances á l'époque de Louis XIV, examines the corn economy of France during the Old Regime. Meuvret was interested in showing how historical conditions affected different networks of exchange in an early monetary economy.

#6921

Fotios Malleros

1914 - 1986 (72 years)

Fotios Malleros Kasimatis was a Greek historian, philologist and scholar specialist in Byzantinology. His academic career was mainly developed in Chile. Biography He studied at University of Athens, graduating there as a philologist and historian. Juan Gómez Millas, a Chilean politician then Universidad de Chile Faculty of Philosophy and Letters Dean, arrived his country in 1947. Initially he taught there, at the Pedagogical Institute, teaching courses on Greek language, history and literature. Although in Chile there was already, since colonial times, a remarkable academic dedication around ...

#6922

Kristen Valkner

1903 - 1972 (69 years)

Kristen Nikolai Valkner was a Norwegian priest and church historian. He was born in Bergen, and graduated with the cand.theol. degree in 1927. He was appointed vicar in Skånevik in 1928, but returned to academia as he became docent in church history at the University of Oslo in 1946. He was promoted to professor in 1964, and retired in 1972. Notable books include Norges kirkehistorie 1500–1800 , Mesteren fra Møre and Kirkestriden i Norge. Belyst ved Lyder Bruns brev til F. C. Krarup 1905–1931 .

#6923

John Gregg

1873 - 1961 (88 years)

John Allen Fitzgerald Gregg CH was a Church of Ireland clergyman, from 1915 Bishop of Ossory, Ferns and Leighlin, in 1920 translated to become Archbishop of Dublin, and finally from 1939 until 1959 Archbishop of Armagh. He was also a theologian and historian.

#6924

Franciscus Haraeus

Franciscus Haraeus

1555 - 1631 (76 years)

Franciscus Haraeus , , was a theologian, historian, and cartographer from the Low Countries. He is best known for his history of the origins of the Dutch Revolt, written from a Catholic perspective but without polemical bias. He was one of the first cartographers to make thematic maps and globes.

#6925

Theodore S. Parvin

Theodore S. Parvin

1817 - 1901 (84 years)

Theodore Sutton Parvin was born on the 15th of January, 1817, in Cumberland County, New Jersey. In 1833 he graduated at Woodworth College, Ohio, and began the study of law, graduating at the Cincinnati Law School in 1837. In 1838 Robert Lucas, who had been appointed Governor of the new Territory of Iowa, selected Mr. Parvin for his private secretary. He accompanied the Governor to Burlington where he was appointed to take charge of the Territorial library. In 1839 Mr. Parvin was appointed District Attorney of the middle District and removed to Bloomington. He served three terms as probate judge.

#6926

António Garcia Ribeiro de Vasconcelos

1860 - 1941 (81 years)

António Garcia Ribeiro de Vasconcelos was a Portuguese historian and theologian. He taught at the University of Coimbra from 1887 to 1930, first in the Faculty of Theology and then in the Faculty of Letters, which appointed him Emeritus Professor. In 1936 he became the first president of the Portuguese Academy of History.

#6927

Heinrich Liebmann

Heinrich Liebmann

1874 - 1939 (65 years)

Karl Otto Heinrich Liebmann was a German mathematician and geometer. Life Liebmann was the son of Otto Liebmann , a Jewish neo-Kantian philosophy professor in Jena. Heinrich studied from 1895 to 1897 at the universities Leipzig, Jena and Göttingen. In 1895 he was awarded the doctorate under Carl Johannes Thomae with the subject Die einzweideutigen projektiven Punktverwandtschaften der Ebene and passed the Lehramtsprüfung in 1896. In 1897 he was an assistant in Göttingen and in 1898 in Leipzig, where he was habilitated on the subject Über die Verbiegung der geschlossenen Flächen positiver Krümmung.

#6928

Gloria Griffen Cline

1929 - 1973 (44 years)

Gloria Griffen Cline was an American historian of the Great Basin and professor at Sacramento State College. Biography She was born in San Francisco to parents Robert A. and Grace G. Griffen. In 1931 the Griffens moved to Reno, Nevada, where Gloria attended local grammar schools and Reno High School, graduating in 1947. She received her BA and MA in history from the University of Nevada in 1951, before going on to complete her Ph.D. in history at the University of California in 1958. She adapted her dissertation into the book Exploring the Great Basin .

#6929

Peter Friedrich Arpe

1682 - 1740 (58 years)

Peter Friedrich Arpe was a German lawyer, historian and legal writer. He was also the founder of a huge collection of objects and manuscripts on the history of Schleswig-Holstein, though his collection also included banned theological works. He also wrote and collected under the Latinised form of his name, Petrus Fridericus Arpius.

#6930

Anna Dean Kepper

1938 - 1983 (45 years)

Anna Dean Kepper was a historian and a curator of Nevada history and the history of Las Vegas who helped save historic structures in that city. Early life and education Born in Seattle, Washington, Kepper received master's degrees in both museology and American folk culture from the State University of New York at Oneonta. She earned a third master's degree in public administration from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas after moving to Las Vegas in 1973.

#6931

Louise Brown

1878 - 1955 (77 years)

Louise Brown was an American historian of Britain. Early life Louise Fargo Brown was born in 1878 in Buffalo, New York and received her B.A. from Cornell University in 1903. She was a member of Alpha Phi Women's Fraternity.

#6932

Dominicus Baudius

Dominicus Baudius

1561 - 1613 (52 years)

Dominicus Baudius, a Latinised form of Dominique Baudier, was a French Neo-Latin poet, scholar and historian. From 1603 to 1613 he was a teacher at the University of Leiden. Life Baudius was born in a calvinistic family in the Southern Netherlands in Lille. His original name was probably Dominique Baudier, though sources only show his Latinised name Dominicus Baudius. As a result of the arrival of the new regent of the low countries, the Duke of Alba in 1568, Baudius moved to Aachen along with his parents and sister. After finishing at the local school he proceeded to study theology first in Leiden from 1578 to 1579 and then in Geneva in 1581.

#6933

Adolf Leschnitzer

1899 - 1980 (81 years)

Adolf Leschnitzer was a German-American writer-researcher, historian and teacher, specialising in Jewish and German studies. Biography Adolf Friedrich Leschnitzer was born in Posen before 19451864–1934secondary schoolsecondary school

#6934

David Chytraeus

David Chytraeus

1531 - 1600 (69 years)

David Chytraeus or Chyträus was a German Lutheran theologian, reformer and historian. He was a disciple of Melancthon. He was born at Ingelfingen. His real surname was Kochhafe, which in Classical Greek is χύτρα, from where he derived the Latinized pseudonym "Chyträus".

#6935

Heriger of Lobbes

925 - 1007 (82 years)

Herigerus was a Benedictine monk, often known as Heriger of Lobbes for serving as abbot of the abbey of Lobbes between 990 and 1007. Remembered for his writings as theologian and historian, Herigerus was a teacher to numerous scholars. His biography describes him as "skilled in the art of music", though no music theory treatise survives and neither do the two antiphons and one hymn attributed to him.

#6936

A. C. F. Beales

1905 - 1974 (69 years)

Arthur Charles Frederick Beales was an historian. He was educated at King's College London, where his mentors included F. J. C. Hearnshaw and Eileen Power. Beales spent all but four years of his career at King's; for three years he was a schoolmaster and he worked for University College, Swansea, for a year. From 1964 until his retirement in 1972 he was Professor of History at King's. In 1935 he converted to Catholicism.

#6937

Patrick Cumming

1741 - 1820 (79 years)

Patrick Cumming FRSE was a professor of Oriental Languages at the University of Glasgow, philologist and joint founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He was, at that time, the longest served of any known Scottish professor.

#6938

Friedrich Uhlhorn

Friedrich Uhlhorn

1894 - 1978 (84 years)

Friedrich Uhlhorn was an honorary professor at the Philipps-Universität Marburg, whose scientific focus was on the history of the State of Hesse and was also known for his work outside Hesse. His special scientific interest was mainly focused on the problems of historical cartography. In collaboration with Edmund Ernst Stengel, he published the Geschichtlichen Atlas von Hessen, which is considered his major work. He also wrote the article Die deutschen Territorien. A: The West, which deals with the West German regional history. Likewise he was responsible as editor for the by Bruno Gebhardt.

#6939

Auguste Carrière

1838 - 1902 (64 years)

Auguste Carrière was a linguist, grammarian and French historian, specializing in comparative grammar and Armenian culture. He was a professor at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales in Paris, and was an advocate of Armenian language studies, establishing an Armenian Chair at the school.

#6940

Johan Kõpp

1874 - 1970 (96 years)

Johan Kõpp was an Estonian bishop and head of the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church 1939–1944. Biography Kõpp went to high school at the Hugo Treffner Gymnasium in Tartu and then studied theology at the University of Tartu. He graduated from university in 1906. After his studies he initially worked as a high school teacher in Pärnu but from 1909 to 1922 was pastor in Laiuse. Already in 1916 he had however taken up a teaching position at the University of Tartu as one of the first ethnic Estonians to do so after the Estonian Declaration of Independence. From 1920 to 1927 he was deputy rector of the university, and from 1928 to 1937 rector.

#6941

Rachel Elfreda Fowler

1872 - 1951 (79 years)

Rachel Elfreda Fowler was an English literary scholar and lecturer in art and history at the University of Oxford. Early life Rachel Fowler was born in London on 10 December 1872, the youngest daughter of Sir Robert Fowler , member of parliament and Lord Mayor of London, and his wife Sarah Charlotte Fowler, née Fox. Elfreda was one of eleven children. She received her advanced education at Westfield College and then at the University of Oxford where she studied modern languages.

#6942

Paul Smith

1906 - 1985 (79 years)

Paul J. Smith was an American music composer and violinist best known for his work at Disney. Life and career Smith was born in Calumet, Michigan on October 30, 1906. Upon graduating high school, he studied music at The College of Idaho from 1923 to 1925 before he was accepted into the Bush Conservatory of Music in Chicago, Illinois. His abilities in theory and composition earned him a scholarship to study music theory at Juilliard, however, it is unclear if he ever pursued this invitation.

#6943

Frederic George Young

Frederic George Young

1858 - 1929 (71 years)

Frederic George Young was an educator in the U.S. state of Oregon. He was born in Burnett, Wisconsin on June 3, 1858, and after graduating from Johns Hopkins University in 1886, he taught in Wisconsin and South Dakota. He moved to Portland in 1890, and served as principal at its high school and as president of Albany College before being appointed professor of economics and history at the University of Oregon in 1895. He was a founding officer of the Oregon Historical Society in 1898, and as editor of its Oregon Historical Quarterly from its founding in 1900 through the December 1928 issue. He served on the Oregon Commission for the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition.

#6944

Edward Ambrose Burgis

1673 - 1747 (74 years)

Edward Ambrose Burgis was an English Dominican historian and theologian. Biography He was born in England 1673. When a young man he left the Church of England, of which his father was a minister, and became a Catholic, joining the Dominican Order at Rome, where he passed his noviceship in the convent of Saints John and Paul on the Caelian Hill, then occupied by the English Dominicans. After his religious profession he was sent to Naples to the Dominican school of St. Thomas, where he displayed unusual mental ability.

#6945

Dmytro Bahalii

1857 - 1932 (75 years)

Dmytro Ivanovych Bahalii was a Ukrainian historian and public and political figure, one of founding members of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and a full member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society since 1923. He was also a professor and rector at Kharkiv University , and mayor of Kharkiv .

#6946

Jules Flammermont

1852 - 1899 (47 years)

Jules Gustave Flammermont was a French historian, largely known for his writings on history of the 18th century. He studied at the École pratique des Hautes Études and École des Chartes in Paris, receiving his diploma as an archivist-palaeographer in 1878. He worked as a librarian and archivist in the town of Senlis, and afterwards served as secretary to the Duke of Aumale at the Château de Chantilly. In 1883/84 he conducted archival research in Vienna and Berlin, and in 1884 received his doctorate of letters at the Sorbonne. He successively taught classes in history at the universities of Poitiers , Douai and Lille .

#6947

Charles Alexander McMurry

1857 - 1929 (72 years)

Early life Charles Alexander McMurry was an American educator, pioneer in American Herbartianism, and brother to Frank Morton McMurry. In 1857, McMurry was born in Crawfordsville, Indiana, but following the premature death of his father, his mother moved the family to rural Illinois where he and his siblings would begin attending Normal schools, specifically in Normal, Illinois. This is where Charles McMurry would meet Edmund J. James, a prominent educational figure in economics and academia throughout Illinois universities and schools.

#6948

Helge Dahl

1926 - 1989 (63 years)

Helge Dahl was a Norwegian educationalist. He was born in Rjukan as the son of labourers. He finished his secondary education in his hometown in 1940 and graduated with the cand.philol. degree in 1946 at the University in Oslo. From 1947 to 1957 he was a teacher at Tromsø Teacher's College, and took the dr.philos. degree in 1957 with the thesis Språkpolitikk og skolestell i Finnmark 1814–1905. He specialized in the history of education, and wrote Norsk lærerutdanning fra 1814 til i dag , Lærerutdanningen ved Universitetet i Oslo fra 1814 til i dag , Klassisisme og realisme. Den høgre skolen i Norge 1809–1869 , Norsk Lærerskolelag gjennom 75 år .

#6949

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

1620 - 1688 (68 years)

Sir Winston Churchill , known as the Cavalier Colonel, was an English soldier, historian, and politician. He was the father of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough and a direct ancestor and namesake of Winston, who served as British prime minister in the 20th century during the Second World War.

#6950

Arrigo Pacchi

1933 - 1989 (56 years)

Arrigo Pacchi was an Italian historian of philosophy. He graduated in philosophy at the University of Milan with an academic thesis in Medieval Philosophy. He dedicated his studies in particular to the natural philosophy of Thomas Hobbes and to the influence of Cartesianism in England.

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