The Most Influential People Across History
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List of the most influential people in History,
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Shoshenq I
1000 BC - 924 BC (76 years)
Hedjkheperre Setepenre Shoshenq I —also known as Shashank or Sheshonk or Sheshonq I—was a pharaoh of ancient Egypt and the founder of the Twenty-second Dynasty of Egypt. Of Meshwesh ancestry, Shoshenq I was the son of Nimlot A, Great Chief of the Ma, and his wife Tentshepeh A, a daughter of a Great Chief of the Ma herself; Shoshenq was thus the nephew of Osorkon the Elder, a Meshwesh king of the 21st Dynasty. He is generally presumed to be the Shishak mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, and his exploits are carved on the Bubastite Portal at Karnak.
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Ursul Philip Boissevain
1855 - 1930 (75 years)
Ursul Philip Boissevain was a Dutch historian and professor. Biography Boissevain was born in Amsterdam as the fifth and youngest son of Henri Jean Arnaud Boissevain and Petronella Drost. He was named after Ursuline Philippine Baroness of Verschuer , wife of theologian Hermann Friedrich Kohlbrugge. He studied in Leiden where he wrote his dissertation in 1879. He also studied in Berlin. After his studies Boissevain traveled through Europe and lived in Italy for a number of years. In 1882 he started teaching classical languages at the Erasmus Gymnasium in Rotterdam. Two years later Boissevain ...
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Friedrich Engel-Janosi
1893 - 1978 (85 years)
Friedrich Engel-Jánosi was an Austrian historian. Born Friedrich Engel von Jánosi, he wrote under the name Engel-Janosi. A leading expert on the relationship between the Holy See and the Hapsburg monarchy, he also wrote on Italian history, on the history of historiography, and on more general topics.
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Karl Hopf
1832 - 1873 (41 years)
Karl Hopf or Carl Hermann Friedrich Johann Hopf was a historian and an expert in Medieval Greece, both Byzantine and Frankish. Career Hopf graduated from the University of Bonn, where he received his Ph.D. in the medieval history of Greece. He worked as a professor and librarian in the University of Greifswald and the University of Königsberg. He frequently visited Italian and Greek medieval archives to find sources for his works.
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Johannes Loccenius
1598 - 1677 (79 years)
Johannes Loccenius was a German jurist and historian, known as an academic in Sweden. Life He was born at Itzehoe, Holstein, the son of a tradesman, and educated at the Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums. He went to study at Rostock and Helmstedt in 1616, and in 1617 was in Leiden. After a period at Hamburg, where he encountered in particular Holstenius, he returned to Leiden in 1624, where he received a doctorate in law.
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Hilda Johnstone
1882 - 1961 (79 years)
Hilda Johnstone FRHS was a British historian, and one of the first female professors in the London university system. Life Hilda Johnstone, born in 1882 to Herbert and Sarah Anne Johnstone, was educated at Manchester High School for Girls from 1894 to 1899 and read History at Manchester University, graduating M.A. in 1906. She had two sisters, Edith and Mary ; both attended Manchester High School for Girls. From 1906 to 1913 she was Assistant Lecturer in History at the Victoria University of Manchester, in 1913 becoming Reader in History at King's College London. During the First World War she worked in the War Trade Intelligence Department.
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Robert Holtzmann
1873 - 1946 (73 years)
Robert Holtzmann was a German Medievalist historian. He was something of a pioneer for what became an important post-war historiographical approach, respected among historians, in particular, as an authority on the Ottonians and their times, both during his life and for many years following his death.
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Anne King Gregorie
1887 - 1960 (73 years)
Anne King Gregorie was a South Carolina historian, and professor of history at Arkansas College and at the University of South Carolina where some of her papers are deposited. Anne King was known as a "local historian" and can be marked as a member of society who was quite loyal and here for the good of South Carolina. She was a woman who cared deeply about South Carolina. Although she was not born in South Carolina, she enriched herself in the cultures and heritage, it being a part of her, and shared stories of the state through books and writings.
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Amédée Gosselin
1863 - 1941 (78 years)
Amédée Gosselin was a Canadian historian, academic administrator and Roman Catholic priest. Early life On September 30, 1863, Gosselin was born in Saint-Charles-de-Bellechasse, Canada East. Education Gosselin studied the classical course and theology from 1878 until 1890 at the Petit Séminaire de Québec and the Grand Séminaire de Québec.
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William Culp Darrah
1909 - 1989 (80 years)
William Culp Darrah was an American professor of biology at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania. He also had an interest in, and published several works on, 19th-century photography. Born in Reading, Pennsylvania, his was a specialist in paleobotany. Darrah was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, as well a member of Sigma Xi and the Botanical Society of America.
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Václav Chaloupecký
1882 - 1951 (69 years)
Václav Chaloupecký was a Czech historian, a student of prominent Czech historian Josef Pekař and the main representative of historians in mid-war Slovakia. Life He had studied at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague . Then he had worked as an archivist and librarian in Roudnice nad Labem . In 1919, he became a state inspector of Slovak archives and libraries . In the same time, he was also a docent and professor of the Czechoslovak history at Comenius University. He held several academic positions e.g. dean and vice-dean of the Faculty of Arts, rector and vice-rector of the university.
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Jeanne Wier
1870 - 1950 (80 years)
Jeanne Elizabeth Wier was a teacher, historian, and founder of the Nevada Historical Society. Early life Jeanne Wier was born in Grinnell, Iowa on April 8, 1870 to parents Adolphus William Wier and Elizabeth Greenside Rood Wier. She graduated as class valedictorian from Clear Lake High School, in Clear Lake, Iowa in 1886. She entered the didactics program at the Iowa State Normal School in Cedar Falls, and graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1893. In the 1890s, Wier’s family left Iowa and moved to Heppner, Oregon, where she was an assistant principal of the high school from 1893 to 1895. In...
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Jerry Gershenhorn
1900 - Present (126 years)
Jerry Gershenhorn is an American historian who currently holds the Julius L. Chambers Professorship in American History at North Carolina Central University. He received his PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Alberto Guglielmotti
1812 - 1892 (80 years)
Alberto Guglielmotti was a Dominican order priest and writer. He was best recognized for his histories about the naval battles and exploits of seamen from the Italian peninsula. He was born in Civitavecchia, baptized al secolo as Francesco Maria Guglielmotti. he father was an officer of the Marine, who served as councillor in Ragusa, Sicily and Civitavecchia. After attending seminary in Rome, he served as professor of physics and mathematics at the Minerva school. He later became librarian of the Biblioteca Casanatense.
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Cyriacus Spangenberg
1528 - 1604 (76 years)
Cyriacus Spangenberg was a German theologian, Protestant reformer and historian, son of the reformer . Cyriacus was born in Nordhausen. As a student, he was a fellow tenant of Martin Luther in Wittenberg, later became a minister in Eisleben, and in 1559 the General Dean of the Grafschaft Mansfeld.
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Harry S. Crowe
1922 - 1981 (59 years)
Harry Sherman Crowe was a history professor, university administrator, and labour researcher. In 1958, his firing by United College gained national attention in Canada. In raising questions about the security of academic freedom and tenure in Canada, Crowe's case became a catalyst in solidifying the work of the Canadian Association of University Teachers in defending academic freedom and ensuring scholarly rights for academic staff in Canada.
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Otto Stobbe
1831 - 1887 (56 years)
Johann Ernst Otto Stobbe was a German historian and law professor born in Königsberg. He studied history, philology and jurisprudence at the University of Königsberg, earning his law degree in 1853. He continued his education in Leipsic and Göttingen, and in 1856 received his habilitation. Soon afterwards he became a professor of German law at Königsberg, later holding similar positions at the Universities of Breslau and Leipzig .
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Heinrich Sproemberg
1889 - 1966 (77 years)
Heinrich Sproemberg was a German historian. The focus of his research was on the transition from the Middle Ages to the Early modern period. He made a notable contribution to the historiography of the Hanseatic League, the Netherlands and the territories that became known after 1830 as Belgium.
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Jonas Totoraitis
1872 - 1941 (69 years)
Jonas Totoraitis was a Roman Catholic priest and historian. Education Totoraitis studied at the Theological Seminary of Sejny. He went on to Freiburg University in Switzerland, where he published his doctoral dissertation on the life of King Mindaugas, Die Litauer unter dem König Mindowe bis zum Jahre 1263, the first such work by a Lithuanian scholar.
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Cornplanter
1732 - 1836 (104 years)
John Abeel III known as Gaiänt'wakê or Kaiiontwa'kon in the Seneca language and thus generally known as Cornplanter, was a Dutch-Seneca chief warrior and diplomat of the Seneca people. As a war chief, Cornplanter fought in the American Revolutionary War on the side of the British. After the war Cornplanter led negotiations with the United States and was a signatory of the Treaty of Fort Stanwix , the Treaty of Canandaigua , and other treaties. He helped ensure Seneca neutrality during the Northwest Indian War.
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Louis-Pierre-Eugène Sédillot
1808 - 1875 (67 years)
Louis-Pierre-Eugène Amélie Sédillot , was a French orientalist and historian of science and mathematics. Biography His father, , orientalist and astronomer, worked alongside Delambre and Laplace. His older brother, Charles-Emmanuel Sédillot, became a renowned surgeon. Louis-Pierre-Eugene also showed predispositions towards study. He began his career as a history teacher before becoming Secretary of the Collège de France and the School of Oriental Languages in 1832.
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Jean-Noël Paquot
1722 - 1803 (81 years)
Jean-Noël Paquot was a Belgian theologian, historian, Hebrew scholar and bibliographer. Life Paquot was born in Florennes in 1722. In 1738 he enrolled at the University of Louvain, graduating Licentiate of Theology in 1751. From 1755 to 1771 he taught Hebrew at the Collegium Trilingue in Leuven, where he was also librarian. He was stripped of his position after a sodomy trial. In subsequent years he lived in Brussels and Gembloux. In 1782 he was stripped of his pension as court historiographer to Empress Maria Theresa, for having denied that the Austrian government had a historical claim to S...
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Demetrius I of Bactria
300 BC - 180 BC (120 years)
Demetrius I Anicetus , also called Damaytra was a Greco-Bactrian and later Indo-Greek king , who ruled areas from Bactria to ancient northwestern India. He was the son of the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom's ruler Euthydemus I and succeeded him around 200 BC, after which he conquered extensive areas in what is now southern Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan and India.
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Karl Uhlirz
1854 - 1914 (60 years)
Karl Uhlirz was an Austrian historian and archivist. He studied history at the University of Vienna, and from 1877 worked as an employee of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica under Theodor von Sickel. From 1882 he served as a caretaker at the Vienna city archives, where in 1889 he became its director. In 1888 he obtained his habilitation for history of the Middle Ages and historical auxiliary sciences. In 1903 he succeeded Franz Krones as professor of Austrian history at the University of Graz.
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Franz Krones
1835 - 1902 (67 years)
Franz Krones Ritter von Marchland was an Austrian historian. He studied history at the University of Vienna, where from 1854 he attended classes at the Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung . After graduation, he taught classes at the Rechtsakademie in Kaschau and at the gymnasium in Graz. In 1864 he became an associate professor, and during the following year, was named a full professor of Austrian history at the University of Graz. On two separate occasions he was dean at the university and in 1876/77 he served as rector.
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Wolfgang Clemen
1909 - 1990 (81 years)
Wolfgang Clemen was an eminent German literary scholar who helped reestablish English Studies in Germany after World War II. His father, Paul Clemen, was a well-known art historian. Biography/Career Clemen studied from 1928 to 1934 at the Universities of Heidelberg, Freiburg, Berlin, München, Bonn and Cambridge. Among his academic teachers were Ernst Robert Curtius, Carl Vossler, and Hugo Friedrich. He received his doctorate in 1936 with a doctoral dissertation on Shakespeare’s images, and his post-doctoral degree with a study of Geoffrey Chaucer. After a short period as Lecturer for literary history at the University of Cologne, he moved to the University of Kiel.
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Fritz Schulz
1879 - 1957 (78 years)
Fritz Schulz was a German jurist and legal historian. He was one of the 20th centuries' most important scholars in the field of Roman Law. The Nazis forced him to leave Germany and to emigrate to England due to his political stance and his Jewish origins.
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Alfred Wood
1896 - 1968 (72 years)
Alfred Cecil Wood was Professor of Modern History at the University of Nottingham from 1951 to 1960. Life Wood was born on 7 February 1896 and educated at Liverpool College and Jesus College, Oxford. He was a Second Lieutenant in the King's Liverpool Regiment and the Cheshire Regiment during the First World War. He was wounded and left permanently disabled. After the war, he studied at Jesus College, Oxford, obtaining a first-class degree in Modern History in 1921 and a BLitt in 1923. In 1926, he was appointed as a lecturer at University College, Nottingham , rising to Reader in 1946. He...
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Erik Arup
1876 - 1951 (75 years)
Erik Ipsen Arup was a Danish historian and educator. He was most known as the pioneer of radical-liberal history writing in Denmark. Biography Arup was born at Slangerup in Frederikssund Municipality, Denmark. He was the son of the physician Peter Michael Christian Arup and Malvina Cathrine Ipsen . He was raised in a cultured home and was the cousin of Danish-English structural engineer Ove Arup . He was educated as both a theologian and a historian. Arup attended the University of Copenhagen and was awarded his dr.phil. in 1907.
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John Meier
1864 - 1953 (89 years)
John Meier was a German folklorist and philologist. He founded both the and also the Swiss Volksliedarchiv. Meier was born in Vahr, a part of Bremen, and died in Freiburg at the age of 88. Career Meier studied German, Romance and English philology, history and anthropology at the Universities in Freiburg im Breisgau and Tübingen. In 1888 he obtained his doctorate at Freiburg with the Dissertation Researches concerning the poet and the language of the 'Iolande' . In 1891 there followed his formal faculty admission to the University of Halle with the work Studies in the Linguistic and Literar...
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Franz Rühl
1845 - 1915 (70 years)
Franz Rühl was a German historian who published numerous works in the field of classical history. He was a son-in-law to anatomist Jacob Henle. He studied history and philology at the universities of Jena and Marburg, receiving his doctorate in 1867. After graduation, he took a study trip to Italy and worked as a gymnasium teacher in Schleswig. In 1871 he obtained his habilitation at the University of Leipzig, and during the following year relocated to Dorpat, where he subsequently became an associate professor of history. From 1876 onward, he was a professor at the University of Königsberg, ...
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Henryk Zieliński
1920 - 1981 (61 years)
Henryk Zieliński was a Polish historian and professor at the University of Wrocław. Biography After his high-school exit exam he was conscripted, in summer 1938, to the Polish military service as cadet; next year, after the Invasion of Poland he was wounded during the Battle of Bzura. Soon he was imprisoned in a German POW camp, from which he tried to escape three times, finally succeeding in 1944. He moved to Kraków, where he became one of the students of the underground university.
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Hans Svaning
1503 - 1584 (81 years)
Hans Svaning was a Danish historian. Biography Svaning was born at the village of Svaninge on Funen. He attended Vor Frue skole in Copenhagen and the University of Wittenberg graduating in 1529 and in 1533 receiving his master's degree. Between 1541–52, he was the tutor of Prince Frederick, later King Frederick II of Denmark and became a royal historiographer in 1553. In 1539 he became professor of rhetoric at the University of Copenhagen. In 1547, he received the deanery at Ribe. His main work was a complete Danish history in Latin, Danmarkshistorie, which was completed in manuscrip...
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Albert Anton von Muchar
1786 - 1849 (63 years)
Albert Anton von Muchar was an Austrian historian. He was descended from the Muchars of Bied and Rangfeld, studied at the lyceum in Graz, entered the Benedictine Order, and made his vows on 16 October 1808, at Admont. Ordained a priest shortly afterwards, he devoted himself entirely to the study of Middle Eastern languages, became librarian and keeper of the archives in 1813, and later on professor of Greek and Middle Eastern languages at the theological school of his monastery. From 1823 to 1825 he was supplementary professor of Biblical science, becoming afterwards professor of aesthetics an...
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Friedrich August Wilhelm Wenck
1741 - 1810 (69 years)
Friedrich August Wilhelm Wenck was a German historian. His older brother, Helfrich Bernhard Wenck , was also an historian. Beginning in 1760 he studied history at the University of Erlangen, then in 1766–68, he worked as an assistant at the Darmstadt Pädagogium. In 1770 he acquired the academic degree of magister of philosophy, and during the following year, became an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Leipzig. In 1780 he succeeded Johann Gottlob Böhme as professor of history at Leipzig. Within a twenty-year period , on five separate occasions, he served as university rector.
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August Hirsch
1817 - 1894 (77 years)
August Hirsch was a German physician and medical historian. Biography He practiced in Danzig after studying at Berlin and Leipzig. In recognition of his studies on malarial fever and his work, Handbuch der historisch-geographischen Pathologie, he was in 1863 made professor at Berlin. In 1873, he was a member of the German Cholera Commission, studied the conditions of Posen and West Prussia, and published a report . He studied the plague in Astrakhan in 1879 and 1880, and in the latter year wrote a report to his Government.
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Russell L. Caldwell
1904 - 1979 (75 years)
Russell Leon Caldwell was an American historian, educator, and community activist. He was born August 13, 1904, in Farrell, Pennsylvania, and died May 23, 1979, at Daniel Freeman Memorial Hospital in Inglewood, California, due to cardiovascular disease at the age of 74.
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Thomas Frederick Crane
1844 - 1927 (83 years)
Thomas Frederick Crane was an American folklorist, academic and lawyer. He studied law at Princeton, earned his undergraduate degree in 1864, and in 1867 graduated with an A.M. He then studied law at Columbia Law School but moved to Ithaca when a relative there became ill. He was admitted to the bar and worked as a lawyer in the community and as a librarian for newly founded Cornell University. He went on to become a student of languages, and was offered a faculty position by President A.D. White and taught French, Italian, Spanish, and medieval literature. He was among the founders of the Journal of American Folklore.
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Boris Kuznetsov
1903 - 1984 (81 years)
Boris Grigoryevich Kuznetsov was a Soviet philosopher and historian. In 1931, he was appointed Head of the research institute of the energy industry and electrification. In 1936, Boris Kuznetsov became deputy director of the Vavilov Institute for the History of Science and Technology.
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Reidar Thoralf Christiansen
1886 - 1971 (85 years)
Reidar Thoralf Christiansen was a Norwegian folklorist, archivist of the Norwegian Folklore Collection and professor of folkloristics at the University of Oslo. Biography Christiansen studied theology during 1904–1909 and worked as a language teacher for Finnish and Sami for priest sent to Finnmark, but he was not himself ordained as a priest. Instead, he took an interest in folkloristics under the guidance of Moltke Moe . He received a scholarship for a half-year's stay in Finland in 1912, where he studied under Kaarle Krohn . During 1914–1916 he studied in Copenhagen, studying under Axel Olrik .
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Petrus Albinus
1543 - 1598 (55 years)
Petrus Albinus was a professor at Wittenberg in Germany and is known as the father of Saxon historiography. Life Petrus Albinus was born on 18 June 1543 in Schneeberg in the Ore Mountains of central Europe. His father was Peter Weis, who built the Hospital Church in Schneeberg. He was married to Magdalena Hübsch, daughter of a Ratskämmerer and mining entrepreneur, who had moved to Schneeberg from Nuremberg. In keeping with the common practice of the day he Latinized his name to Petrus Albinus. After attending grammar school in Schneeberg and princely school at Meissen, Albinus studied in Leipzig, received his bachelor's degree in 1553 and worked in Lauban.
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William Carr
1862 - 1925 (63 years)
William Carr was a British biographer, historian, magistrate and Deputy Lieutenant for Norfolk, England. Life William Carr was born in Gomersal House, Yorkshire, to William Carr, magistrate and local squire. He was educated, first at Marlborough College, and then in 1882 went to University College, Oxford. His strength was in history where he won the three historical essay prizes: Stanhope ; Lothian ; and Arnold .
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Max Büdinger
1828 - 1902 (74 years)
Max Büdinger was a German historian. He was a professor of general history at the University of Vienna . Bibliography Die Universalhistorie Im Altertume External links Max Büdinger at the Wien Geschichte WikiBüdinger at Deutsche Biographie
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John Lodge
1692 - 1774 (82 years)
John Lodge was an English archivist and historian, best known for his work The Peerage of Ireland, a complete genealogical history of Irish peers. Life Lodge was born into a farming family in Bolton-le-Sands, Lancashire, as the son of a husbandman-farmer, Edmund Lodge. He was educated at a school in Clapham, Yorkshire, under Mr. Ashe, and was admitted sub-sizar of St John's College, Cambridge on 26 June 1716. He graduated B.A. in 1719; was ordained a deacon at Lincoln in 1720 and as a priest at Ely in 1721; then became a schoolteacher at March, Cambridgeshire in 1725, and was awarded his M.A. in 1730.
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Rockwell D. Hunt
1868 - 1966 (98 years)
Rockwell Dennis Hunt was a California historian, a professor at the University of Southern California and the University of the Pacific, and prolific author. He was named Mr. California by Governor Goodwin Knight in 1954.
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Bekir Çoban-zade
1893 - 1937 (44 years)
Bekir Vaap oğlu Çoban-zade was a Crimean Tatar poet and professor of Turkic languages who was one of the victims of the Great Purge. In the midst of a successful academic career, at the age of 44, Çoban-zade was arrested by Soviet authorities for alleged subversive activities against the state and was sentenced to death. His writings have outlived him; his poetry, in particular, continues to enjoy popularity among Crimean Tatars.
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Louis Massebieau
1840 - 1904 (64 years)
Jean Adolphe Massebieau , known as Louis, was a French Protestant historian and theologian. In 1877 he became maître de conférences at the Faculté de théologie protestante de Paris. In 1880 he was named maître de conférences at the École pratique des hautes études . His daughter, Louise Compain, was a feminist author and co-founder of the feminist movement in France in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Richard Indreko
1900 - 1961 (61 years)
Richard Indreko was an Estonian historian and archaeologist. He is noted for his research into ancient Estonian history. From 1923-1927 he studied at the University of Tartu and became a lecturer there in 1933. From 1933 to 1937 he led the excavations in Lammasmägi near Kunda and in Asva, Saaremaa. He conducted important research into the Origin and Area of Settlement of the Finno-Ugrian peoples.
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Adriaan Kluit
1735 - 1807 (72 years)
Adriaan Kluit was a Dutch scholar, important in Dutch linguistics. He was born in Dordrecht. He was rector of the Latin school in Alkmaar and Middelburg. In 1779 he became the professor of history at the University of Leiden, remaining there until his death.
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Albano Sorbelli
1875 - 1944 (69 years)
Albano Sorbelli was an Italian historian, bibliographer and librarian. He was the director of the Biblioteca Comunale of the Archiginnasio of Bologna from 1904 until 1943. Biografia A student of Giosuè Carducci and of Pio Carlo Falletti at the University of Bologna, he graduated in Letters and Philosophy in 1898 and later focused on Historical Sciences. In the same university he taught courses on librarianship and bibliography .
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