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#8001

Louise Nalbandian

1926 - 1974 (48 years)

Louise Ziazan Nalbandian was an American Armenian historian and professor in the History Department at California State University, Fresno from 1964 to 1974. She was the author of The Armenian Revolutionary Movement: The Development of Armenian Political Parties Through the Nineteenth Century.

#8002

Dušan Pirjevec

1921 - 1977 (56 years)

Dušan Pirjevec, known by his nom de guerre Ahac , was a Slovenian Partisan, literary historian and philosopher. He was one of the most influential public intellectuals in post–World War II Slovenia.

#8003

Pierre Huard

1901 - 1983 (82 years)

Pierre Huard was a French physician , historian of medicine and anthropologist, long in post in Indochina, dean of several faculties of medicine , rector of the Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny, a pioneer in the history of medicine.

#8004

Axel Olrik

1864 - 1917 (53 years)

Axel Olrik was a Danish folklorist and scholar of mediaeval historiography, and a pioneer in the methodical study of oral narrative. Olrik was born in Frederiksberg, the son of the artist Henrik Olrik. Artist Dagmar Olrik, judge Eyvind Olrik, historian Hans Olrik and cultural historian Jørgen Olrik were siblings of his.

#8005

Otto Lauffer

1874 - 1949 (75 years)

Otto Lauffer was a German folklorist and cultural historian. Life Otto Lauffer was born in Weende on 20 February 1874 and spent his childhood there, until 1886. He studied German language and literature studies, history and art history in Göttingen , Berlin, Munich and again in Göttingen . In 1896 he was awarded his doctorate under the supervision of Moritz Heyne.

#8006

Marcel Poëte

1866 - 1950 (84 years)

Marcel César Poëte was a French librarian, historian and urban planning theoretician. He was a co-founder of the School of Advanced Urban Studies, where he taught, and was highly influential in developing new theories of urban planning in Paris in the first half of the 20th century.

#8007

Auguste Audollent

1864 - 1943 (79 years)

Auguste Audollent was a French historian, archaeologist and Latin epigrapher, specialist of ancient Rome, in particular the magical inscriptions . His main thesis was devoted to Roman Carthage. He was elected a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in 1932.

#8008

Adam Shortt

1859 - 1931 (72 years)

Adam Shortt was an economic historian in Ontario. He was the first full-time employed academic in the field at a Canadian university . Biography Shortt was born in Kilworth, Canada West, on 24 November 1859 to George Shortt and Mary Shields. At the age of twenty he attended Queen's University with the intention of becoming a Presbyterian minister. When he graduated in 1883 however, he pursued graduate studies in philosophy, chemistry and botany.

#8009

Josef Kalousek

1838 - 1915 (77 years)

Josef Kalousek , was a Czech historian and professor of Czech history at Univerzita Karlova in Prague. Life Josef Kalousek was born in a poor farmer family in Vamberk. Work Bibliography in Czech České státní právo Nástin životopisu Františka Palackého Karel IV., Otec vlasti Děje Královské České společnosti nauk Tři historické mapy k dějinám českým Výklad k historické mapě Čech O vůdčích myšlenkách v historickém díle Františka Palackého Obrana knížete Václava Svatého proti smyšlenkám a křivým úsudkům o jeho povaze O potřebě prohloubiti vědomosti o Husovi a jeho době

#8010

Joseph Fletcher

1934 - 1984 (50 years)

Joseph F. Fletcher, Jr., usually referred to as Joseph Fletcher , was an American historian of China and Central Asia and a professor in the East Asian Languages and Civilizations Department of Harvard University. His main areas of research included interaction between the Islamic and Chinese worlds, Manchu and Mongol studies.

#8011

Abu Hafs Umar al-Nasafi

1067 - 1142 (75 years)

Najm ad-Dīn Abū Ḥafṣ 'Umar ibn Muḥammad an-Nasafī was a Muslim jurist, theologian, mufassir, muhaddith and historian. A Persian scholar born in present-day Uzbekistan, he wrote mostly in Arabic.

#8012

Ernst Steindorff

1839 - 1895 (56 years)

Ernst Steindorff was a German historian who was a native of Flensburg. He studied history at the Universities of Kiel, Göttingen and Berlin. From 1873 he was an associate professor of history at Göttingen, where in 1883 he became a full professor.

#8013

Francesco Bonaini

Francesco Bonaini

1806 - 1874 (68 years)

Francesco Bonaini was a philologist, paleographer and Italian archivist. Biography Bonaini was born into a Catholic family with Jewish heritage. Bonaini's father, Domenico, was the son of a Jew who had converted to Catholicism, and committed suicide due to a mental illness before Francesco embarked on his ecclesiastical career.

#8014

John Francis Bannon

1905 - 1986 (81 years)

John Francis Bannon was a Jesuit and a historian of the American West, especially of matters related to the Spanish borderlands. Bannon received his bachelor's and master's degrees from Saint Louis University. He then completed his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley. Bannon was a professor at Saint Louis University for several years. Bannon's work The Spanish Borderland Frontier, 1513-1821, published in 1970, is the seminal work on the subject.

#8015

Ferdinand II of León

Ferdinand II of León

1137 - 1188 (51 years)

Ferdinand II , was a member of the Castilian cadet branch of the House of Ivrea and King of León and Galicia from 1157 until his death. Life Family Born in Toledo, Castile, Ferdinand was the third but second surviving son of King Alfonso VII of León and Castile and Berenguela of Barcelona. His paternal grandparents were Count Raymond of Burgundy and Queen Urraca of León and his maternal grandparents were Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona, and Douce I, Countess of Provence. He had seven full-siblings, of whom only three survived infancy: the later King Sancho III of Castile, Constance a...

#8016

Miloš Mladenović

1903 - 1984 (81 years)

Miloš Mladenović was professor emeritus of History at McGill University in Montreal, and an expert on Cold War politics. Biography Miloš Mladenović was born in Valjevo, Serbia, in 1903. He studied at the University of Belgrade's Law School between 1922 and 1926, and graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce and Law. At that time he seemed to be destined for a long, diplomatic career, however, World War II intervened. After World War II, Miloš Mladenović settled temporarily in Western Europe. Unwilling to return to Yugoslavia under a Communist regime, Mladenović chose to settle in Canada permanently.

#8017

René Fülöp-Miller

1891 - 1963 (72 years)

René Fülöp-Miller, born Philip René Maria Müller was an Austrian cultural historian and writer. He was born to an Alsatian immigrant and a Serbian mother in Karánsebes, Austria-Hungary and died in Hanover, New Hampshire.

#8018

Johann Gustav Gottlieb Büsching

Johann Gustav Gottlieb Büsching

1783 - 1829 (46 years)

Johann Gustav Gottlieb Büsching was a German antiquary. His knowledge of subjects pertaining to Germany in the Middle Ages was notable. Biography He was born in Berlin, the son of Anton Friedrich Büsching, a geographer and educator. He studied at the universities of Erlangen and Halle, was appointed royal archivist at Breslau in 1811, and in 1817 an associate professor of archaeology at the University of Breslau. He collected oral folk stories from the Uckermark region, which he published in Volks-Sagen, Märchen und Legenden .

#8019

Platon Zhukovich

Platon Zhukovich

1857 - 1919 (62 years)

Platon Zhukovich was an Imperial Russian historian and theologian. Biography Born to a family of Russian Orthodox church official , in 1881 he graduated from the Saint Petersburg Theological Academy. He worked as a teacher at the Polotsk Theological School before moving to Vilna where he taught history of the Orthodox church at the local theological school.

#8020

Arthur John Butler

1844 - 1910 (66 years)

Arthur John Butler , was an English scholar, editor, and mountaineer, professor of Italian language and literature at University College London. Apart from his work on Dante and other Italian poets, Butler translated books from German and French, including the memoirs of Bismarck, Thiébault, and Marbot, and work by Sainte-Beuve. He also contributed to the Cambridge Modern History and the Dictionary of National Biography and in the 1890s was editor of the Alpine Journal.

#8021

Hans Gram

1685 - 1748 (63 years)

Hans Gram was a Danish academic, philologist and historian. Biography Gram was born at Bjergby in Hjørring on North Jutlandic Island, Denmark. His father was a parish priest. In 1703, he graduated from the University of Copenhagen. In 1708 he acquired a Master's Degree. In 1714 he became a professor of Greek at the University of Copenhagen. In 1730 he was named royal historian and royal librarian as well as manager of the Royal Library and the secretary of the Royal Archives. From 1740, he returned to the University of Copenhagen where he served as rector from 1744-1745.

#8022

Wilhelm Ihne

1821 - 1902 (81 years)

Joseph Anton Friedrich Wilhelm Ihne was a German historian who was a native of Fürth. He was the father of architect Ernst von Ihne . Life He studied philology at Bonn, obtaining his degree in 1843 with a thesis titled Quaestiones Terentianae. From 1847 to 1849 he was a teacher in Elberfeld, afterwards moving to England, where he taught school in Liverpool until 1863. He returned to Germany as a lecturer at the University of Heidelberg, where in 1873 he was appointed professor. He died in Heidelberg.

#8023

Heinrich Schurtz

1863 - 1903 (40 years)

Heinrich Schurtz was a German ethnologist and historian. His most significant work is said to be Altersklassen und Männerbünde which emphasized the role gender and generational issues have in social institutions and argued that basing the society on the family was a step backwards. His notion of Männerbünde placed male associations, where he deemed masculinity more "unfettered", in opposition to the family which he saw as dominated by women. Notions of Männerbünde, though not just Schurtz's, would have an influence on Nazi Germany's SS while in a very different way his ideas on same-sex bond...

#8024

Augustin Bunea

1857 - 1909 (52 years)

Augustin Bunea was an Austro-Hungarian ethnic Romanian historian and priest within the Romanian Greek-Catholic Church. Biography Origins and role in Blaj Bunea was born in Vad, a village in the Țara Făgărașului region of Transylvania, then part of the Austrian Empire. He attended primary school from 1864 to 1870, there and in nearby Ohaba. He went to a gymnasium in Brașov until the spring of 1877, when he was briefly transferred to Blaj. While in Brașov, he and classmate Andrei Bârseanu edited a magazine by hand; it was called Conversațiuni. Jurnal literar. In the magazine, Bunea published 9...

#8025

Abraham Polak

1910 - 1970 (60 years)

Abraham Nahum Polak was an Israeli historian, a professor at the Tel Aviv University since its inception, professor of medieval history and founder of the department of Middle-Eastern History. His main areas of research were Jewish history, Arab history, nations of Islam and Africa and the history of the Khazars.

#8026

Gustav Schnürer

1860 - 1941 (81 years)

Gustav Schnürer was a German-Swiss historian. Biography Gustav Schnürer was born in the Silesian village of Jätzdorf on 30 June 1860. He studied history, geography and philology at the universities of Berlin, Breslau and Münster, earning his doctorate in 1883 at Münster. Afterwards, he worked as an editorial assistant at Munich, later obtaining a professorship in medieval history at the University of Fribourg .

#8027

Ivan Lappo

1869 - 1944 (75 years)

Ivan Ivanovich Lappo was a Russian historian. He specialized in history of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, especially during the late medieval and early modern period. He shared the vision prevailing in Russian historiography, namely that the union between Lithuania and Poland was enforced by the latter. However, unlike most Russian scholars of the era, he kept maintaining that the Grand Duchy retained political autonomy and remained the subject of international politics. Throughout his career, he held academic seats at the universities of Tartu, Voronezh, Prague, Kaunas and Vilnius.

#8028

Carl Salemann

1849 - 1916 (67 years)

Carl Hermann Salemann was a Russian Iranist scholar. He was an academician of Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences and a director of Asiatic Museum of the Academy of Sciences . Biography Salemann was a Baltic German, born in Revel .

#8029

Edward Ernest Hughes

1877 - 1953 (76 years)

Edward Ernest Hughes was the first professor of history at University College, Swansea. Life Hughes was born on 7 February 1877 in Tywyn, Merionethshire, Wales. As a result of a childhood accident, he was blind in one eye and his other eye was damaged; he compensated by developing his memory and hearing. After studying at Bala Grammar School, he obtained a first-class degree in history from the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth in 1898. He then obtained a second-class honours degree in modern history from Jesus College, Oxford in 1902. He taught history in the boys' school in Llane...

#8030

Lon Tinkle

1906 - 1980 (74 years)

Julien Lon Tinkle was a historian, writer, book critic, and professor who specialized in the history of Texas. Tinkle spent most of his life in Dallas, Texas, where he graduated from and later taught at Southern Methodist University. In 1942 he became a book editor and critic for the Dallas Morning News. His first book, Thirteen Days to Glory: The Siege of the Alamo, was published in 1958. The book was well received and was later adapted into a made-for-television movie. Tinkle won awards for this book, and for a biography that he wrote of historian J. Frank Dobie. He is the namesake of...

#8031

Mikhail Ovsyannikov

1915 - 1987 (72 years)

Mikhail Fedotovich Ovsyannikov was a Soviet philosopher and academic who concentrated on in-depth study of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Ovsyannikov was head of the Philosophy Department at Moscow State University from 1968 to 1974.

#8032

Wilhelm Oechsli

Wilhelm Oechsli

1851 - 1919 (68 years)

Wilhelm Oechsli was a Swiss historian. Oechsli studied theology and history at Berlin and Zürich, under Theodor Mommsen among others. In 1887 he took up the new chair of Swiss history at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich. From 1893 to 1919 he was professor of history at the University of Zürich. He tried to popularize critical historiography, challenging the legendary traditions about the Swiss national past:

#8033

Louis Blanc

1811 - 1882 (71 years)

Louis Jean Joseph Charles Blanc was a French socialist politician, journalist and historian. He called for the creation of cooperatives in order to guarantee employment for the urban poor. Although Blanc's ideas of the workers' cooperatives were never realized, his political and social ideas greatly contributed to the development of socialism in France. He wanted the government to encourage cooperatives and replace capitalist enterprises. These cooperatives were to be associations of people who produced together and divided the profit accordingly.

#8034

Marie Delcourt

1891 - 1979 (88 years)

Marie Delcourt was a Belgian classical philologist. She studied at the University of Liège , and obtained a PhD in classical philology in 1919. Under the German occupation of Belgium during World War I she was active in the Dame Blanche resistance network. She was the first female part-time lecturer at the ULg.

#8035

Johannes Messenius

Johannes Messenius

1579 - 1636 (57 years)

Johannes Messenius was a Swedish historian, dramatist and university professor. He was born in the village of Freberga, in Stenby parish in Östergötland, and died in Oulu, in modern-day Finland. Childhood He was the son of a miller named Jöns Thordsson. At an early age his brilliance caught the attention of a monastery priest named Magnus Andreae, who gave him guidance and taught him. Unbeknownst to the boy's parents, the priest sent him to the Jesuit school in Braunsberg, which was specialized in educating boys for winning Scandinavia back from Protestantism.

#8036

Andreas Holmsen

1906 - 1989 (83 years)

Andreas Holmsen was a Norwegian historian, author, and educator. He is most commonly associated with his textbook Norges historie fra de eldste tider til 1660 , which is a standard introduction to early Norwegian history.

#8037

Marius Canard

1888 - 1982 (94 years)

Marius Canard FBA was a French Orientalist and historian. Biography He was born in a small village in the region of Morvan, where his father was a school teacher. Canard studied at the Collège Bonaparte in Autun and completed his studies in the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lyon, where he learned the Arabic, Turkish and Persian languages under the guidance of his coeval Gaston Wiet .

#8038

Isaac Joslin Cox

Isaac Joslin Cox

1873 - 1956 (83 years)

Isaac Joslin Cox, Ph.D. was an American professor of history. He was born at West Creek, Ocean Co., N. J. He graduated from Dartmouth College and for several years did research in Mexico. He then pursued postgraduate studies at the universities of Texas, Chicago, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania.

#8039

Kaarle Krohn

1863 - 1933 (70 years)

Kaarle Krohn was a Finnish folklorist, professor and developer of the geographic-historic method of folklore research. He was born into the influential Krohn family of Helsinki. Krohn is best known outside of Finland for his contributions to international folktale research. He devoted most of his life to the study of the epic poetry that forms the basis for the Finnish national epic, the Kalevala.

#8040

Edith Wightman

1938 - 1983 (45 years)

Edith Mary Wightman FSA was a British ancient historian and archaeologist. She was Assistant-Professor and then Professor at McMaster University . Wightman was best known for her studies Roman Trier and Gallia Belgica.

#8041

Michael VII Doukas

Michael VII Doukas

1050 - 1090 (40 years)

Michael VII Doukas or Ducas , nicknamed Parapinakes , was the senior Byzantine emperor from 1071 to 1078. He was known as incompetent as an emperor and reliant on court officials, especially of his finance minister Nikephoritzes, who increased taxation and luxury spending while not properly financing their army . Under his reign, Bari was lost and his empire faced open revolt in the Balkans. Along with the advancing Seljuk Turks in the eastern front, Michael also had to contend with his mercenaries openly turning against the empire. Michael stepped down as emperor in 1078 and later retired to ...

#8042

Manuel II Palaiologos

Manuel II Palaiologos

1350 - 1425 (75 years)

Manuel II Palaiologos or Palaeologus was Byzantine emperor from 1391 to 1425. Shortly before his death he was tonsured a monk and received the name Matthew. His wife Helena Dragaš saw to it that their sons, John VIII and Constantine XI, became emperors. He is commemorated by the Greek Orthodox Church on July 21.

#8043

Theodore Emanuel Schmauk

1860 - 1920 (60 years)

Theodore Emanuel Schmauk, D.D., LL.D. was an American Lutheran minister, educator, author and Church theologian. Theodore Emanuel Schmauk was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, the son of a Lutheran minister, Rev. Benjamin W. and Wilhelmina C. Schmauk. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, being ordained by the Ministerium of Pennsylvania in that year. In 1897, he received the degree of D.D. from Muhlenberg College and in 1910, the degree of LL.D. from Augustana College.

#8044

Heinrich Wieleitner

1874 - 1931 (57 years)

Heinrich Wieleitner was a German mathematician and historian of mathematics. He became an honorary professor of mathematics at the University of Munich but for much of his career worked in school- and college-level education.

#8045

Andrew J. Newman

1900 - Present (126 years)

Andrew J. Newman holds the chair of Islamic Studies and Persian at the University of Edinburgh. Education and career Newman majored in history at Dartmouth College, graduating summa cum laude. He went to the University of California, Los Angeles for graduate study in Islamic studies, and earned his Ph.D. there. After postdoctoral research at Green Templeton College, Oxford, affiliated with Oxford's Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, he joined the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Edinburgh in 1996.

#8046

Newman Ivey White

1892 - 1948 (56 years)

Newman Ivey White was an American professor of English at Duke University. He was born in Statesville, North Carolina, United States. He was a noted Shelley scholar, as well as a collector of American folklore, including folk songs and Duke limericks. He served as Professor of English at Trinity College and Duke University from 1919 to 1948. He wrote American Negro Folk Songs and in it he quoted a work song, sung by laborers in Augusta, Georgia, which mentioned the notorious Judge Fogarty. White also recalled hearing a version in Statesville, North Carolina in 1903.

#8047

Lao Genevra Simons

1870 - 1949 (79 years)

Lao Genevra Simons also referred to as Lao G. Simons, was an American mathematician, writer, and historian of mathematics known for her influential book Fabre and Mathematics and Other Essays. Simons was head of the mathematics department at Hunter College in New York.

#8048

Arrell Gibson

1921 - 1987 (66 years)

Arrell Morgan Gibson was a historian and author specializing in the history of the state of Oklahoma. Gibson was born in Pleasanton, Kansas on December 1, 1921. He earned degrees from Missouri Southern State College and the University of Oklahoma. He is best known for writing Oklahoma: A History of Five Centuries and The Oklahoma Story . He died in Norman, Oklahoma on November 30, 1987. There have been two literary awards created in Gibson's honor. The Oklahoma Center For The Book grants its Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award annually to an Oklahoman for a body of literary work. The...

#8049

Pierre Wuilleumier

1904 - 1979 (75 years)

Pierre Wuilleumier was a 20th-century French scholar, normalian, professor of Latin language and literature at the Sorbonne and archaeologist. Biography Pierre Wuilleumier held the chair of National Antiquities in Lyon from 1933. In 1940, he was responsible for the excavations of the ancient Theatre of Fourvière on the hill of Fourvière with Amable Audin. From 1941 to 1954, he directed two constituencies of Historic Antiquities in the Lyon region. He contributed to the magazine Gallia since its creation in 1942, in which he regularly published the results of excavations on the hill of Fourviè...

#8050

Hans W. Gatzke

1915 - 1987 (72 years)

Hans Wilhelm Gatzke was a German-born historian of German foreign policy since World War I and belonged to the young emigrants from Nazi Germany who became historians in the United States. He is remembered by a named professorship in his honor at Williams College and a named dissertation prize at Yale University.

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