The Most Influential People Across History
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Dafydd ap Gruffydd
1238 - 1283 (45 years)
Dafydd ap Gruffydd , was Prince of Wales from 11 December 1282 until his execution on 3 October 1283 on the orders of King Edward I of England. He was the last native Prince of Wales before the conquest of Wales by Edward I in 1283 and English rule in Wales that followed, until Owain Glyndŵr held the title during the Welsh Revolt of 1400–1415.
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Heinrich Schreiber
1793 - 1872 (79 years)
Heinrich Schreiber was a German Catholic theologian and historian, known for his writings about the city of Freiburg. He studied at the University of Freiburg and in 1815 received his ordination as a priest. Later on, he taught classes at the gymnasium in his hometown, then worked as a librarian at the university. In 1821 he obtained his habilitation, and five years later became a professor of moral theology at the university. In 1836 he switched from the theological to the philosophical faculty, and thus gave lectures in German literature and ethics.
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Wolfgang Michael
1862 - 1945 (83 years)
Wolfgang Michael was a German historian. He specialised in British history and was Professor of History at the University of Freiburg. Works Cromwell .'The Treaties of Partition and the Spanish Succession' in A. W. Ward, G. W. Prothero and Stanley Leathers , The Cambridge Modern History, Volume V: The Age of Louis XIV , pp. 372–400.England under George I: The Beginnings of the Hanoverian Dynasty .England under George I: The Quadruple Alliance .
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Hieronymus Megiser
1553 - 1618 (65 years)
Hieronymus Megiser was a German polymath, linguist and historian. Career From 1571 he studied at the University of Tübingen, and was a favourite student of the humanist and philologist Nicodemus Frischlin. In 1577 he graduated there with a master's degree. In 1581 he moved as a private tutor to Ljubljana . From 1582 he studied jurisprudence in Padua and was then active as a private tutor of young noblemen from Croatia and Styria. In 1588/89 he travelled to Italy and Malta, and in 1591 to North Germany, the Netherlands and England.
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Agostino Mascardi
1590 - 1640 (50 years)
Agostino Mascardi was an Italian rhetorician, historian and poet. Expelled from the Jesuit Order by his superiors, Mascardi pursued a successful career as a secretary for various important figures, and became a renowned writer and professor of rhetoric at the Sapienza University of Rome. He was a member of several learned societies and wrote a seminal treatise, "Dell'arte historica" advocating history as a powerful instrument of ethical and religious persuasion and largely focusing on the interplay between truth and believability.
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Olof Palme
1884 - 1918 (34 years)
Olof Palme , was a Swedish historian and the organizer of the voluntary Swedish Brigade in the 1918 Finnish Civil War. He was the uncle of Olof Palme, the prime minister of Sweden, who was murdered in 1986.
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Heinrich Suter
1848 - 1922 (74 years)
Heinrich Suter was a historian of science specializing in Islamic mathematics and astronomy. Education and career After graduation from the Industrie Schule at Zürich, Suter studied in Berlin and at ETH Zürich and the University of Zürich. He received in 1871 from the University of Zürich his Promovierung with dissertation Geschichte der mathematischen Wissenschaften von den ältesten Zeiten bis Ende des 16. Jahrhunderts. His dissertation was published in 1872 as a book and was subsequently translated into Russian.
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Ignaz Jastrow
1856 - 1937 (81 years)
Ignaz Jastrow was a German economist and historian. Biography He was educated at the universities of Breslau, Berlin, and Göttingen. He became a university docent at Berlin in 1885 and was Leopold von Ranke's assistant in historical work. In 1904 he pursued industrial investigations in the United States, and in 1905 became professor of Administrative Science at Berlin. One daughter, Elisabeth Jastrow, was a classical archaeologist; the other Beate Jastrow Hahn, was an accomplished horticulturalist and author of 5 books. His granddaughter, Cornelia Oberlander was a highly respected landscape ...
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Charles Terlinden
1878 - 1972 (94 years)
Charles Terlinden was a Belgian historian, professor at the Catholic University of Louvain, and papal chamberlain. Life Terlinden was born in Schaerbeek on 6 July 1878. He studied law at Saint-Louis University Faculty in Brussels, and at the Faculty of Law of the Catholic University of Louvain. After completing a doctorate in law, he began historical studies under Alfred Cauchie, with a thesis on Pope Clement IX and the War of Candia . He followed this in 1906 with a second thesis on William I of the Netherlands and the Catholic Church in Belgium, making him a triple doctor.
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Édouard Perroy
1901 - 1974 (73 years)
Édouard Perroy was a French medieval historian and member of the French Resistance. Life Born in Grenoble, Perroy passed his agrégation in 1924, and was a lecturer at the University of Glasgow from 1924 to 1934. He defended his thesis on the religious policy of Richard II in 1934. The following year, he was appointed maître de conférences at Lille University, where he became a professor, before moving to the Sorbonne as a professor in 1949, retiring in 1971.
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Thomas Smart Hughes
1786 - 1847 (61 years)
Thomas Smart Hughes was an English cleric, theologian and historian. Life Born at Nuneaton, Warwickshire, on 25 August 1786, he was the eldest surviving son of Hugh Hughes, curate of Nuneaton, and rector of Hardwick, Northamptonshire. He received his early education from John Spencer Cobbold, first at Nuneaton grammar school, and later as a private pupil at Wilby, Suffolk. In 1801 he was sent to Shrewsbury School, then under the head-mastership of Dr. Samuel Butler, and in October 1803 entered as a pensioner of St John's College, Cambridge. His university career was distinguished. Besides col...
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Royall Tyler
1884 - 1953 (69 years)
Royall Tyler , was an American historian, who was a descendant of the American jurist and playwright Royall Tyler. He was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, and educated at Harrow School in England. After a time at New College, Oxford, he moved to the University of Salamanca, where he became a friend of Miguel de Unamuno. In 1909 he published Spain, a Study of her Life and Arts, the first work in English to recognize the genius of El Greco. Appointed by the British government to edit the Calendar of State Papers related to negotiations between England and Spain in the time of Charles V, Holy Roman...
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Innocent
1600 - 1683 (83 years)
Innokenty Gizel was a Prussian-born historian, writer, and political and ecclesiastic figure, who had adopted Orthodox Christianity and made a substantial contribution to Ukrainian culture. Innokentiy Gizel was a rector of the Kyivan Theological School. In 1656, he was appointed archmandrite of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra. Innokentiy Gizel is known to have supported the unification of Ukraine and autonomy of the Kyiv clergy, simultaneously. Innokentiy Gizel is generally credited for writing the Synopsis in 1674, but some researchers deny his authorship.
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François Laurent
1810 - 1887 (77 years)
François Laurent was a Belgian historian and jurisconsult. Life and works He was born in Luxembourg City. He held a high appointment in the ministry of justice for some time before he became professor of civil law at the university of Ghent in 1836. His advocacy of liberal and anti-clerical principles both from his chair and in the press made him bitter enemies, but he retained his position until his death in 1887.
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Gottlob Benedikt von Schirach
1743 - 1804 (61 years)
Gottlob Benedikt von Schirach was a Sorbian historian, philosopher and writer, and later a diplomat in Danish service. He was a son of the Sorbian theologian Christian Gottlob Schirach . After studying history and philology at the University of Leipzig, he became a lecturer at the University of Halle in 1764. In 1769 he became Professor of Philosophy at the University of Helmstedt. He published several books and was regarded as a well-known author in his lifetime.
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Ivan Božić
1915 - 1977 (62 years)
Ivan Božić was a Yugoslavian historian and academic. He was expert in history of medieval Zeta and the Venetian Republic's policy toward its coastal areas. Works * Dubrovnik i Turska u XIV i XV veku , Naučna knjiga, Belgrade, 1952.Dohodak carski-povodom 198. člana Dušanovog zakonika , Naučno delo, Belgrade, 1956.Paštrovske isprave 16.-18. vijeka, Naučno delo, Belgrade, 1959Pregled istorije jugoslovenskih naroda, Zavod za izdavanje udžbenika Narodne Republike Srbije, Belgrade, 1960.Istorija ljudskog društva i kulture od najstarijih vremena do XI veka za I razred gimnazije, Zavod za izdavanj...
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Fritz Arnheim
1866 - 1922 (56 years)
Fritz Arnheim was a German historian, traveler, and lecturer. Arnheim was born in Berlin, Brandenburg, Kingdom of Prussia and educated at the universities of Berlin and Halle. He made prolonged tours through Sweden, Belgium, and Norway , and subsequently lectured on those countries. In 1915 he became an editor of the Mittheilungen aus der historischen litteratur.
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Caroline Mays Brevard
1860 - 1920 (60 years)
Caroline Mays Brevard was an educator, historian and author in Brevard County, Florida. She was a history professor at Florida State College for Women She was added to the List of Great Floridians in 2012. She was a member of the Florida Historical Society and the group maintains a Caroline Mays Brevard Award in her honor.
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Eliza Marian Butler
1885 - 1959 (74 years)
Eliza Marian Butler , who published as E. M. Butler and Elizabeth M. Butler, was an English scholar of German, Schröder Professor of German at the University of Cambridge from 1945. Her most influential book was The Tyranny of Greece over Germany , in which she wrote that Germany has had "too much exposure to Ancient Greek literature and art. The result was that the German mind had succumbed to 'the tyranny of an ideal'. The German worship of Ancient Greece had emboldened the Nazis to remake Europe in their image." It was controversial in Britain and its translation was banned in Germany.
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Merl R. Eppse
1893 - 1967 (74 years)
Merl Raymond Eppse was an African-American historian. He was a History professor at Tennessee State University for three decades, and the author of several books. Early life Eppse was born in 1893 in Greenville, Ohio. He graduated from Drake University in 1927, where he earned a bachelor of arts degree in History. He earned a master's degree from the Teachers College, Columbia University in 1935.
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Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf
1739 - 1799 (60 years)
Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf was an Austrian composer, violinist, and silvologist. He was a friend of both Haydn and Mozart. Life 1739–1764 Dittersdorf was born in the Laimgrube district of Vienna, Austria, as Johann Carl Ditters. His father was a military tailor in the Austrian Imperial Army of Charles VI, for a number of German-speaking regiments. After retiring honorably from his military obligation, he was provided with royal letters of reference and a sinecure with the Imperial Theatre. In 1745, the six-year-old August Carl was introduced to the violin and his father's moderate financi...
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John Kenrick
1788 - 1877 (89 years)
Reverend John Kenrick was an English classical historian. Life He was born on 4 February 1788 at Exeter, the eldest son of Timothy Kenrick, Unitarian minister, and his first wife, Mary, daughter of John Waymouth of Exeter. He was educated at the local grammar school run by the Rev. Charles Lloyd and later at the nonconformist academy conducted by his father and the Rev. Joseph Bretland.
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Vladimir Simkhovitch
1874 - 1959 (85 years)
Vladimir Gregorievitch Simkhovitch was an economist and Professor of Economic History and Economics at Columbia University. Simkhovich was seen in the 1930s as "the hard core of the old department," a difficult professor who "devoted much of his time and energy to creating and maintaining feuds." His 1908 book Marxism versus Socialism was lauded as being "a work of incomparable thoroughness."
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Alrutheus Ambush Taylor
1893 - 1955 (62 years)
Alrutheus Ambush Taylor was a historian from Washington D.C. He was a specialist in the history of blacks and segregation, especially during the Reconstruction Era. The Crisis cited him as a "painstaking scholar and authority on Negro history". An African-American, he taught at Tuskegee University in Tuskegee, Alabama, at the West Virginia Collegiate Institute in West Virginia, and at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. Following a grant from the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Fund, Taylor began researching the role of African Americans in the South during Reconstruction. He authored...
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Wilhelm Creizenach
1851 - 1919 (68 years)
Wilhelm Michael Anton Creizenach was a German historian and librarian. He was the son of Theodore , poet, Hebraist, a prominent expert on work of Goethe, and Luise Flerscheim. He was educated at the gymnasium in Frankfurt, then studied history and Germanic Philology at the University of Göttingen , neofilologię at the University of Leipzig , Indo-European comparative syntax and Sanskrit at the University of Jena . In 1873 he received his doctorate in Leipzig . During his studies at Jena while working in the university library in the years 1876–1878 was an assistant in the library of the University of Wroclaw.
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John Milton Mackie
1813 - 1894 (81 years)
John Milton Mackie was a United States writer who specialized in topics from German history and literature. Biography He graduated from Brown University in 1832, and studied at the University of Berlin, Germany, 1833–1834. On his return to the United States, he was tutor at Brown 1835–1838. He contributed articles on German topics to the North American Review, American Whig Review, and Christian.
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Ernest Bramsted
1901 - 1978 (77 years)
Ernest Kohn Bramsted was a German-born historian and sociologist of literature who spent large parts of his career in Germany, England and Australia. Early life Ernst Kohn-Bramstadt was born in Augsburg in 1901 to a textile manufacturer who died seven years later. The family was Jewish and liberal. In 1917, he began following left-liberal newspapers which argued for greater democratisation in Germany, and reading Max Weber's sociological writings. The following year, he anonymously contributed to the socialist newspaper, Schwabische Volkszeitung.
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Guglielmo Audisio
1802 - 1882 (80 years)
Guglielmo Audisio was an Italian Catholic priest and writer. Life Guglielmo Audisio was born January 27, 1802, and graduated with degrees in philosophy and theology from the University of Turin. After teaching for four years in the seminary of Bra, in 1837 he was appointed by King Carlo Alberto, Dean of the Ecclesiastical Academy of Superga, where he taught sacred eloquence, moral theology, canon law and institutions of Roman law. He was expelled from this office because he was opposed to the Piedmontese Government. Audisio was a fervent upholder of papal and Catholic rights against the polit...
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Bernard Deacon
1900 - Present (126 years)
Bernard W. Deacon is a multidisciplinary academic, based at the Institute of Cornish Studies of the University of Exeter at the Tremough Campus. He has an Open University doctorate and displays his thesis on the ICS website.
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Hans Liebeschuetz
1893 - 1978 (85 years)
Hans Liebeschuetz was a medieval historian. He is best known for his study of John of Salisbury. Born in Hamburg in 1893, he attended the universities of Hamburg and Heidelberg. After emigrating from Germany in March 1939 he later became a Reader in Medieval History at the University of Liverpool and later emeritus Professor. He helped found the Leo Baeck College which is now a privately funded rabbinical seminary.
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Hugh Egerton
1855 - 1927 (72 years)
Hugh Edward Egerton was a British historian. Life He was the second son of Edward Christopher Egerton, Member of Parliament for and , and his wife Lady Mary Frances Pierrepont, daughter of Charles Pierrepont, 2nd Earl Manvers. He was educated at Rugby School and matriculated in 1873 Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he gained a First Class degree in literae humaniores in 1876, graduating B.A. and M.A. in 1881. In 1880 he was called to the bar at the Inner Temple and worked on the North Wales and Chester Circuit.
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Johann Kaspar Mörikofer
1799 - 1877 (78 years)
Johann Kaspar Mörikofer was a Swiss literary and ecclesiastical historian. Biography He studied theology at the Carolinum in Zürich, and from 1822 to 1851 was provisor and rector of city schools in Frauenfeld. From 1851 to 1869 he served as a pastor in Gottlieben. He obtained honorary doctorates at the universities of Zürich and Basel .
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John A. Carpenter
1921 - 1978 (57 years)
John Alcott Carpenter was a historian, history professor, and public speaker. Carpenter, who specialized in the Reconstruction Period following the American Civil War, published biographies of Oliver Otis Howard and Ulysses S. Grant.
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E. L. G. Stones
1914 - 1987 (73 years)
Edward Lionel Gregory Stones, FBA was Edwards Professor of Medieval History at the University of Glasgow from 1956 to 1978. Early life and education Stones was born in Croydon. He was educated at the High School of Glasgow and studied English Language and Literature at the University of Glasgow from where he graduated with an MA with first class honours. He studied at Balliol College, University of Oxford where he obtaining a first class honours degree in modern history in 1939. Stones served in the Royal Signals during the Second World War, rising to the rank of Major.
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Ishida Eiichirō
1903 - 1968 (65 years)
Ishida Eiichirō was a Japanese scholar of folklore. Biography He became a communist at an early age, and was convicted under the Peace Preservation Law in 1928 and sentenced to five years jail. During his term of incarceration, he read widely, both in the Chinese classics and Western anthropology. On his release in 1934, he attended a lecture by the doyen of folklore studies, Yanagita Kunio, where he became acquainted with Oka Masao, who had just returned from completing a degree in ethnology at Vienna University. Through Oka's offices he was introduced to, and married, a granddaughter of Yanagita's older brother.
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David Bierens de Haan
1822 - 1895 (73 years)
David Bierens de Haan was a Dutch mathematician and historian of science. Biography Bierens de Haan was a son of the rich merchant Abraham Pieterszoon de Haan and Catharina Jacoba Bierens . In 1843 he completed a study in the exact sciences and received his PhD from the University of Leiden in 1847 under Gideon Janus Verdam for the work . After this he became a teacher of physics and mathematics at a gymnasium in Deventer. In 1852 he married Johanna Catharina Justina de Schepper in Deventer.
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Sverker Arnoldsson
1908 - 1959 (51 years)
Sverker Arnolsson was a Swedish historian and humanist. He was one of the most important Historians and Hispanists of the 20th century. He was born in Sundsvall, February the 17th 1908, and died in Gotemburg, November the 10th 1959. He started his career interested in Swedish military history but quickly got interested in the history of the Spanish Empire. He is most recognized for his work regarding the Spanish Black Legend.
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Thomas Ebendorfer
1388 - 1464 (76 years)
Thomas Ebendorfer was an Austrian historian, professor, and statesman. Born at Haselbach, in Lower Austria, he studied at the University of Vienna, where he received the degree of Master of Arts in 1412. Until 1427 he was attached to the Faculty of Arts and lectured on Aristotle and Latin grammar. After 1419 he was also admitted to the theological faculty as 'cursor biblicus'. In 1427 he was made licentiate and in 1428 Master of Theology; soon after he became dean of the theological faculty, in which body he was a professor until his death.
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Werner Gembruch
1918 - 1988 (70 years)
Werner Gembruch was a German historian. Life Born in Würzburg, the son of a factory owner, Gembruch passed his Abitur at the Heinrich-von-Gagern-Gymnasium in Frankfurt am Main in 1937. Afterwards he performed Reich Labour Service for six months. He started a military career. In November 1942 he became a British prisoner of war in El-Alamein. He taught Latin in a so-called camp university. He studied history, German and philosophy at the Goethe University Frankfurt. His academic teacher was Otto Vossler. He received his doctorate in 1950 with a thesis on Otto von Bismarck. Gembruch was Vossler's assistant until 1956.
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Urban T. Holmes Jr.
1900 - 1972 (72 years)
Urban Tigner Holmes Jr. was an American scholar focusing on medieval literature and Romance philology. The son of Commander Urban T. Holmes, United States Navy, Holmes was born in Washington, D.C. In 1916, he enrolled at the U.S. Naval Academy only to withdraw the following year due to health reasons. In 1917, he began schooling at the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied Greek, Russian, Sanskrit, and Old French. After graduating with a Bachelors in 1920, Holmes continued his doctoral studies at Harvard and La Sorbonne. While at the Sorbonne, Holmes studied under scholars such as ...
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William Stith
1707 - 1755 (48 years)
William Stith was an early American historian and an Anglican minister. He was the third president of the College of William & Mary , where Stith Hall was named for him. Early life Stith was the son of Captain John Stith and Mary Randolph, a daughter of William Randolph . Stith's grandfather was Major John Stith, who participated in Nathaniel Bacon's rebellion.
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Georg von Wyß
1816 - 1893 (77 years)
Georg von Wyß was a Swiss historian. He was born and died in Zürich. From 1870, he served as a "full professor" at the University of Zurich, being appointed rector in 1872. He was a founding member of the Allgemeine Geschichtforschenden Gesellschaft , holding the office of president from 1854 to 1893.
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Charles-Honoré Laverdière
1826 - 1873 (47 years)
Charles-Honoré Cauchon dit Laverdière was a French-Canadian priest and historian. Biography Laverdière was born in Château-Richer, East of Quebec City, on 23 October 1826. His parents, Charles Cauchon, dit Laverdière and Théotiste Cauchon, were farmers. He studied at the Séminaire de Québec from 1840 onward, and proved brilliant, being promoted to assistant professor of physics and collaborating to the foundation of the student newspaper, through which he published several collections of canticles. He was ordained in 1851.
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Mangharam Udharam Malkani
1896 - 1980 (84 years)
Mangharam Udharam Malkani was an Indian scholar, critic, writer, playwright, literary historian and professor in the Sindhi language. He was the pioneer of modern Sindhi dramas. He was recognized as the "Grand old man of Sindhi literature".
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Jules Mees
1876 - 1937 (61 years)
Juliaan or Jules Mees was a Belgian professor of historical geography, a specialist on the Portuguese discoveries, who in 1920 was condemned to two years in prison for collaboration during the German occupation of Belgium in World War I.
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Hans Hirsch
1878 - 1940 (62 years)
Hans Hirsch was an Austrian academic who worked between 1903 and 1914 on the vast "Monumenta Germaniae Historica" sources project, and subsequently became a full-time professional historian. He accepted an ordinary professorship in history at the German University in Prague as the war ended, transferring in 1926 to the University of Vienna. The focus of his research and teaching was on medieval history. In parallel he built for himself a reputation as a specialist on the "Sudeten Germans", which marked him out as a more than averagely politicised historian. His application for party membe...
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Leo Stern
1901 - 1982 (81 years)
Leo Stern was an Austrian-German left-wing political activist. In 1933 he switched his party membership from the Social Democratic Party to the Communist Party. During the fascist ascendancy he participated in the Spanish Civil War as an anti-Franco Interbrigadist and later, in the Great Patriotic War, served as an officer in the Soviet Red Army. Between the two he studied successfully for a higher degree at the University of Moscow, receiving his Habilitation degree in 1940 in return for a dissertation of Contemporary Catholicism. Emerging from the war in 1945, almost certainly by now closel...
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Charles William Hanko
1920 - 1990 (70 years)
Charles William Hanko was an American historian and politician. Hanko ran unsuccessfully as a Republican Candidate for the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives in 1948. He was for a time a professor of history at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute in the Dept. of History and Economics. He held a fellowship related to economics at Case Institute of Technology in 1954.
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Friedrich Karl Julius Schütz
1779 - 1844 (65 years)
Friedrich Karl Julius Schütz was a German historian. He was the son of philologist Christian Gottfried Schütz . He studied history at the universities of Jena, Erlangen and Göttingen, obtaining his habilitation in 1801 at Jena. From 1804 onward, he was an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Halle. He was the husband of actress Henriette Hendel-Schütz, with whom he accompanied on her theatrical tours — on occasion he also performed on stage.
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Julius Braun
1825 - 1869 (44 years)
Julius Braun was a German historian, with an interest in art, culture and religion. Biography Braun was born in Karlsruhe and received his early education at the city's lyceum. He then studied at the universities of Heidelberg and Berlin, at first theology, but later philology and art history. He finished his formal studies in 1848, and passed the test for teachers in Karlsruhe that same year. From 1850 to 1853, he undertook an extensive study tour which brought him to Egypt, Syria, Asia Minor, Rome, Paris and London.
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