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#8351

Troels Frederik Lund

Troels Frederik Lund

1840 - 1921 (81 years)

Troels Frederik Troels-Lund was a Danish historian. Biography Lund was born in Copenhagen. He was the youngest son of Henrik Ferdinand Lund, Søren Kierkegaard’s Nephew. Henrik Ferdinand was the brother of the naturalist Peter Wilhelm Lund.

#8352

Cyril Edward Cain

Cyril Edward Cain

1883 - 1963 (80 years)

Cyril Edward Cain was a licensed preacher, university professor, and historian. Early years Cyril Edward Cain was born in the Dead Lake community, near Vancleave in Jackson County, Mississippi on February 1, 1883, and was the eldest son of William Yancey Cain and Sarah Burnettie Fletcher Cain. From age 8 through 16, Cyril Cain received his secondary education in the Red Hill School of Jackson County.

#8353

Ivan Grevs

1860 - 1941 (81 years)

Ivan Mikhailovich Grevs was a Russian historian and one of the founders of the Russian school of medievalism that emphasised the influence of the Roman Empire on the social structure of medieval Europe. He was an advocate of the education of women. Doctor of Sciences in Historical Sciences.

#8354

Simon Kaukhchishvili

1895 - 1981 (86 years)

Simon Kaukhchishvili was a Georgian historian and philologist known for his critical editions of old Georgian chronicles; Doctor of Historical Sciences , Professor , Academician of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences .

#8355

William Hubbard

1621 - 1704 (83 years)

William Hubbard was a New England clergyman and historian, born in Ipswich, England. As a child, he was taken by his parents to New England, where he later graduated from Harvard as one of nine graduates in the first commencement ceremony , was ordained and became assistant minister and afterward pastor of the Congregational church at Ipswich, Massachusetts, a post which he resigned just a year before his death.

#8356

José de Oviedo y Baños

1671 - 1738 (67 years)

José de Oviedo y Baños was a Neogranadine military officer and historian. Career Oviedo entered the military in Caracas at age 18, and became a Knight of the Order of Santiago in 1690. He retired from the army in 1730, having reached the rank of Lieutenant general in 1728.

#8357

Ivan Svanidze

1927 - 1987 (60 years)

Ivan "Dzhonrid" Alexandrovich Svanidze , was a Soviet academic who specialized in agriculture and African Studies. He was the nephew of Joseph Stalin through his first wife, Ketevan Svanidze, and the third husband of Stalin's youngest daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva.

#8358

Walter Anderson

Walter Anderson

1885 - 1962 (77 years)

Walter Arthur Alexander Anderson was a Baltic German ethnologist and numismatist. Life Anderson was born from a Baltic German family in Minsk , but in 1894 moved to Kazan , where his father, Nikolai Anderson , had been appointed as professor for Finno-Ugric languages at the University of Kazan. Anderson's younger brother was the mathematician and economist Oskar Anderson , and his older brother was the astrophysicist Wilhelm Anderson . The turmoil created by the Russian Revolution prompted Anderson and his brother Wilhelm to leave Russia and to move to Tartu in Estonia. While living in Estonia in 1939, Anderson, like the majority of Baltic Germans living there, was resettled to Germany.

#8359

Stefan Maria Kuczyński

1904 - 1985 (81 years)

Stefan Maria Kuczyński, pen name Włodzimierz Bart , was a Polish historian and academic specializing in the medieval history of the Kingdom of Poland during the Piast dynasty and the Jagiellon dynasty, especially in the period of King Władysław II Jagiełło. After World War II he served as docent at the Uniwersytet Jagielloński , then associate professor of Uniwersytet Wrocławski , followed by professor of Uniwersytet Łódzki , and professor of Uniwersytet Śląski . Kuczyński also served as editor-in-chief of illustrated monthly Śląsk in 1946–1948, published in Jelenia Góra, and the scientific jo...

#8360

Adolphe Rome

1889 - 1971 (82 years)

Adolphe Rome was a Belgian classical philologist and science historian who was particularly concerned with the ancient history of astronomy. Education and career Adolphe Rome studied at the Atheneum in Mechelen, where his father Eugène Rome was a teacher of ancient languages. After graduating from the Atheneum, he entered the Catholic seminary in Mechelen and in 1912 was ordained a priest. He then studied classical philology at the University of Louvain and received there, after an interruption of his studies by WWI, his doctorate in 1919. He then worked as a teacher in Schaerbeek and Nivelles and in 1922 received a scholarship at the Institut historique belge de Rome in Rome.

#8361

Mary Sheldon Barnes

Mary Sheldon Barnes

1850 - 1898 (48 years)

Mary Downing Sheldon Barnes was an American educator and historian. Her teaching style and publications were considered ahead of their time. She used a method that encouraged students to develop their own research skills utilizing primary sources and their own problem solving skills. Sheldon was teacher of and major influence on author and socialist Anna Strunsky.

#8362

Jacob Caro

1835 - 1904 (69 years)

Jacob Caro was a German historian. Caro was born in Gnesen , Grand Duchy of Posen, the son of Joseph Chayyim Caro. After several years of study at the universities of Berlin and Leipzig, he attracted considerable attention by his work Das Interregnum Polens im Jahr 1586, oder die Häuser Zborowski und Zamojski and was immediately entrusted with the continuation of Röppel's history of Poland in the series of Geschichten der Europäischen Staaten, edited by Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren and Friedrich August Ukert, and published at Gotha. Caro contributed volumes ii through v of this monumental w...

#8363

Ahmad ibn al-Tayyib al-Sarakhsi

833 - 899 (66 years)

Ahmad ibn al-Tayyib al-Sarakhsi was a Persian traveler, historian and philosopher from the city of Sarakhs. He was a pupil of al-Kindi. Al-Sarakhsi was killed by Caliph al-Mu'tadid because, according to an anecdote preserved in Yaqut al-Hamawi's Mu'jam al-Udaba, he had urged the caliph towards apostasy. Al-Biruni reports in his Chronology that al-Sarakhsi had written books in which he denounced prophecy and ridiculed the prophets, whom he styled charlatans. However, Rosenthal has disputed the historicity of the stories that claim al-Sarakhsi was executed for heretical beliefs.

#8364

Sneferu

2700 BC - 2609 BC (91 years)

Sneferu , well known under his Hellenized name Soris , was the founding pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty of Egypt during the Old Kingdom. Estimates of his reign vary, with for instance The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt suggesting a reign from around 2613 to 2589 BC, a reign of 24 years, while Rolf Krauss suggests a 30-year reign, and Rainer Stadelmann a 48-year reign. He built at least three pyramids that survive to this day and introduced major innovations in the design and construction of pyramids.

#8365

Lajos Blau

1861 - 1936 (75 years)

Lajos Blau was a Jewish–Hungarian scholar of philosophy and Oriental studies, professor of Jewish studies, and publicist born at Putnok, in the Kingdom of Hungary. Biography Blau was educated at three different yeshivot in the Kingdom of Hungary, among them that of Presburg. In 1880–1888, he was a student at the Rabbinical Seminary of Budapest . At the same time, he studied philosophy and Oriental studies at the University of Budapest, where he earned a Ph.D. degree cum laude in 1887, and the diploma at the Rabbinical Seminary in 1888.

#8366

Randolph Greenfield Adams

1892 - 1951 (59 years)

Randolph Greenfield Adams was an American librarian and historian, director of the William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, for 28 years. Background Adams was born in Philadelphia to John Stokes Adams, a lawyer and writer, and Heloise Zelina Root Adams. Adams later wrote "My father was the son of a Kentucky judge who married a Philadelphia Quaker; my mother was the daughter of a Connecticut Puritan who married a girl who was mostly French. "

#8367

Esther Clark Wright

1895 - 1990 (95 years)

Esther Isabelle Clark Wright, was a notable Atlantic Canadian historian who at the end of her life received the Order of Canada for her lifetime contributions to Canadian scholarship. She published many works in relation to her historic and genealogical research and was best known for her pioneer and genealogy studies of Nova Scotia & New Brunswick, Canada.

#8368

Kurt Vogel

1888 - 1985 (97 years)

Kurt Vogel was a German historian of mathematics. Life and Work Vogel was born in Altdorf bei Nürnberg and attended school in Ansbach. From 1907 to 1911, he studied mathematics and physics with Max Noether, Paul Gordan, and Erhard Schmidt in Erlangen, and with Felix Klein, David Hilbert, and Otto Toeplitz in Göttingen. He passed his examination to become a schoolteacher in 1911, then served as an army officer from 1913 to 1920 before taking a teaching post in Munich.

#8369

Auguste Himly

1823 - 1906 (83 years)

Auguste Louis Himly was a French historian and geographer. After studying in his native town and taking the university course in Berlin , Himly went to Paris and passed first in the examination for fellowship of the lycées , first in the examinations on leaving the École des Chartes, and first in the examination for fellowship of the faculties . In 1849 he took the degree of doctor of letters with two theses, one of which, Wala et Louis le Débonnaire , placed him in the front rank of French scholars in the province of Carolingian history.

#8370

Conrad Henry Moehlman

1879 - 1961 (82 years)

Conrad Henry Moehlman was an American professor of church history at Colgate Rochester Divinity School, where he was emeritus professor. A Baptist and known as theologically liberal, he was a strong proponent of the separation of church and state and wrote a number of books on religion and education, church history, and Christianity.

#8371

Dmitry Petrushevsky

1863 - 1942 (79 years)

Dmitry Moiseevich Petrushevsky was a Russian and Soviet historian, medievalist, Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences . His father was a priest in the village. He graduated from the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv in 1886.

#8372

Engelbert Mühlbacher

Engelbert Mühlbacher

1843 - 1903 (60 years)

Engelbert Mühlbacher was an Austrian historian. Born in Gresten, he received his classical education in Linz, Upper Austria being his family's home region. In 1862 he became a novice among the Austin Canons in Sankt Florian. After completing his theological studies there, he was ordained priest in 1867. As Alfred Ritter von Arneth relates in his memoirs, historical studies had been successfully cultivated at St. Florian's since Provost Arneth's time, and Mühlbacher was soon active in this domain. Among his writings are articles on St. Florian's Gerhoh von Reichersberg, and the literary productions of St.

#8373

Bernhard Erdmannsdörffer

Bernhard Erdmannsdörffer

1833 - 1901 (68 years)

Bernhard Erdmannsdörffer was a German historian. He was the father of mineralogist Otto Erdmannsdörffer. From 1852 he studied classical philology and history at the University of Jena, subsequently receiving his doctorate under the sponsorship of Johann Gustav Droysen. After conducting research in Italy, he relocated to Berlin in 1861 and collaborated with Droysen and Maximilian Wolfgang Duncker on a massive work involving Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, "Urkunden und Actenstücke zur Geschichte des Kurfürsten Friedrich Wilhelm von Brandenburg", a project that ultimately grew to 23 ...

#8374

Manuk Abeghyan

1865 - 1944 (79 years)

Manuk Khachaturi Abeghyan was an Armenian philologist, literary scholar, folklorist, lexicographer and linguist. He authored numerous scholarly works, including a comprehensive two-volume history of old Armenian literature titled , and a volume on Armenian folklore, the German version of which is titled . He worked extensively on the compilation and study of the Armenian national epic Daredevils of Sassoun. He is also remembered as the main designer of the reformed Armenian orthography used in Armenia to this day. He was one of the first professors of Yerevan State University and was a founding member of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences.

#8375

Charles Firth

1857 - 1936 (79 years)

Sir Charles Harding Firth was a British historian. He was one of the founders of the Historical Association in 1906. Esmond de Beer wrote that Firth "knew the men and women of the seventeenth century much as a man knows his friends and acquaintances, not only as characters but also in the whole moral and intellectual world in which they lived."

#8376

James Ware

1594 - 1666 (72 years)

Sir James Ware was an Anglo-Irish historian. Personal details Born at Castle Street, Dublin on 26 November 1594, James Ware was the eldest son of Sir James Ware and Mary Bryden, daughter of Ambrose Bryden of Bury St. Edmunds. Originally from Yorkshire, his father came to Ireland in 1588 as secretary to the Lord Deputy of Ireland, Sir William FitzWilliam, was knighted by James I, elected to the Irish House of Commons for Mallow in 1613, and served as auditor of Trinity College Dublin He also had a younger brother Joseph, Dean of Elphin from 1642 to 1648, while his sister Martha married Sir Wi...

#8377

Mark Wischnitzer

1882 - 1955 (73 years)

Mark Wischnitzer was a scholar of Jewish history. Biography Mark Wischnitzer was born on May 10, 1882, in Rovno, Russia. He studied at the University of Vienna and University of Berlin, and he received his doctorate in 1906. Wischnitzer served as editor of the history section of the Russian-language Jewish Encyclopedia from 1908 to 1913, and later as the editor of the Encyclopaedia Judaica published in Berlin. He moved to Berlin, Germany, in 1921. There he served as Secretary General of the Hilfsverein der Deutschen Juden until his immigration to France in 1938. In Paris from 1938 to 1940, he was a research associate of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.

#8378

Edvard Bull Jr.

1914 - 1986 (72 years)

Edvard Bull , Edvard Bull d.y. or Edvard Bull Jr. was a Norwegian professor and historian. Biography He was born in Kristiania as the son of professor and politician Edvard Bull, Sr. and Lucie Juliane Antonette Voss 1886–1970AUF

#8379

Robert Thomas Jenkins

1881 - 1969 (88 years)

Robert Thomas Jenkins CBE was a Welsh historian and academic. Life Jenkins was born on 31 August 1881 in Liverpool. He moved with his family to Bangor, Gwynedd, when his father was appointed clerk to the registrar of the newly established University College of North Wales. However, both of his parents had died by 1888 and he was then brought up by his maternal grandparents in Bala, Gwynedd. He was baptised by Thomas Charles Edwards and studied at Bala Grammar School before winning a scholarship to the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, obtaining a first-class degree in English in 1901.

#8380

Ivan Snegarov

1883 - 1971 (88 years)

Ivan Yonchev Snegarov was a Bulgarian historian and archivist. Biography Snegrov was born on October 12, 1883, in the city of Ohrid, then in the Ottoman Empire, today in North Macedonia. He studied in Ohrid, and later at the Constantinople Theological Seminary . Then he was a clerk in the Bulgarian Exarchate in Constantinople . In 1908-1912 he studied at the Kiev Theological Academy. In 1913-1926 he was a Bulgarian teacher at the Constantinople Seminary and in the Sofia Seminary. Snegarov became a full-time associate professor at the Faculty of Theology at the Sofia University , full professor , corresponding member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences , academician .

#8381

Niels Nikolaus Falck

Niels Nikolaus Falck

1784 - 1850 (66 years)

Niels Nikolaus Falck was a Danish jurist and historian. Biography He was born at Emmerlef in the Duchy of Schleswig. He was educated at the University of Kiel and became a theological candidate in 1808, graduating dr. phil. in 1809. From 1813 he was appointed professor juris in Kiel. In 1814, he became professor of law at the University of Kiel, and in 1838 he was appointed president of the Schleswig-Holstein Assembly of the States.

#8382

Alexander Bugge

Alexander Bugge

1870 - 1929 (59 years)

Alexander Bugge was a Norwegian historian. He was professor at the Royal Frederick University from 1903–1912, and his main fields of interest were culture and society in the Viking era and the development of trade and cities in Norway during the Middle Ages.

#8383

Ruth Anna Fisher

Ruth Anna Fisher

1886 - 1975 (89 years)

Ruth Anna Fisher was an American historian, archivist, and teacher who played a major role in collecting sources from British archives for the Carnegie Institution and Library of Congress. Early life Fisher was born in Lorain, Ohio, the daughter of David C. Fisher, a real estate investor and ice merchant, and Elizabeth Dorsey. She graduated from Oberlin College in 1906 and was offered a position at the Tuskegee Institute. Within a few months, however, she had a falling out with Booker T. Washington over matters of pedagogy and the school's requirement that she be involved in the Sunday School...

#8384

Johann Ludwig Choulant

Johann Ludwig Choulant

1791 - 1861 (70 years)

Johann Ludwig Choulant was a German physician from the Kingdom of Saxony who was a professor of Medicine at Dresden medical historian and contributed to the study of the history of medicine. He was the father of architect Ludwig Theodor Choulant . He trained initially in pharmacy before shifting to medicine. A student of classical languages, he examined old works on medicine and produced an influential history of medical illustration which was translated into English by Mortimer Frank and others in 1920.

#8385

Karl Faber

1773 - 1853 (80 years)

Karl Peter Andreas Faber was a Prussian archivist and historian. A native of Königsberg, East Prussia, Faber became chief archivist of the Prussian State Archive in 1808 after attending the University of Königsberg. Faber and Ernst Hennig were the first of Königsberg's archivists to approach the subject in a scientific manner. Faber made public letters from Martin Luther to Albert, Duke of Prussia in 1811. Works by Faber include his Taschenbuch für Königsberg in 1829 and Die Haupt- und Residenzstadt Königsberg in 1841. He also briefly produced a newspaper, Königsberger Abendzeitung, in 1831 and received an honorary doctorate from the philosophy faculty in 1837.

#8386

Henry Cotton

1789 - 1879 (90 years)

Ven. Henry Cotton was an English Anglican divine, ecclesiastical historian and author. Life Cotton born in Chicheley, Buckinghamshire, the son of Rev. William C. Cotton, vicar of Chicheley. His mother was Charlotte Elizabeth Barrett, daughter of Rev. Thomas Barrett, Vicar of Stanton Harcourt and Southleigh.

#8387

Andreas Buchner

1776 - 1854 (78 years)

Joseph Andreas Buchner was a German historian. He was the author of a highly regarded multi-volume work on Bavarian history. He studied theology at the Georgianum in Munich, and was ordained as a priest in 1799. From 1804 he taught classes in philosophy at the lyceum in Dillingen, then in 1811 relocated as a professor of history to the lyceum in Regensburg. In 1825 he became a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, and during the following year, was named a professor of Bavarian history at the University of Munich.

#8388

Victor Goldschmidt

1914 - 1981 (67 years)

Victor Goldschmidt was a French philosopher and historian of philosophy. Born in Germany, he came to France in 1933. Before the war he studied at the Sorbonne and at the École pratique des hautes études under Henri Marguerite.

#8389

Ioan D. Caragiani

Ioan D. Caragiani

1841 - 1921 (80 years)

Ioan D. Caragiani was a Romanian folklorist and translator. He was one of the founding members of the Romanian Academy. Caragiani was an Aromanian.

#8390

Johann Philipp Palthen

Johann Philipp Palthen

1672 - 1710 (38 years)

Johann Philipp Palthen was a Western Pomeranian historian and philologist. Life Palthen was born in Wolgast, a port in what was then Swedish Pomerania. His father was Johann Palthen, a senior official at the court, and his mother, born Dorothea Hoppe, also came from one of the town's leading families. The boy attended the Gymnasium in Greifswald, moving on to Greifswald University where he studied between 1688 and 1691.

#8391

Stepanos Nazarian

Stepanos Nazarian

1812 - 1879 (67 years)

Stepanos Nazarian was an Armenian-Russian publisher, enlightener, historian of literature and orientalist. Biography He was born in the family of a priest. Graduated from the department of philosophy in the University of Tartu in 1840. In 1849 he became a professor of Persian and Arab literature in Moscow in the Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages. He published a number of scholarly works and earned his doctoral dissertation on a work analyzing Ferdowsi's Shahnameh.

#8392

Jean-François Lemarignier

1908 - 1980 (72 years)

Jean-François Marie Joseph Louis Lemarignier was a French medieval historian. Biography Born into a legal family in Paris in 1908, Lemarignier graduated with a licenciate in law in 1929, before entering the École des Chartes on the advice of Paul Fournier. Graduating archivist-paleographer in 1933. He became librarian-archivist at the Conseil d'État in 1934. After military service in 1939–1940, he passed the agrégation in legal history in 1941.

#8393

Guion Griffis Johnson

1900 - 1989 (89 years)

Guion Griffis Johnson was an American historian. Life Born Frances Guion Griffis in Wolfe City, Texas, on April 11, 1900, she was raised in Greenville, Texas. She married Guy Benton Johnson, a sociologist, and together they had two sons, Guy Benton, Jr. and Edward. She died at the age of 89 on 12 June 1989.

#8394

Colmar Grünhagen

1828 - 1911 (83 years)

Colmar Grünhagen was a German archivist and historian. Almost all of his considerable published output concerns the History of Silesia. Life and works Colmar Grünhagen was born in Trebnitz and grew up in Breslau before 1944/45. His father was an apothecary. Between 1841 and 1847 he was a pupil initially at Breslau's St. Maria Magdalena Gymnasium and then at the Elizabeth Gymnasium . On completing his schooling he moved on to study Classical Philology and History at the University of Jena. He moved again to pursue his studies at Berlin where he was influenced by Leopold von Ranke. During...

#8395

Émile-Guillaume Léonard

1891 - 1961 (70 years)

Émile-Guillaume Léonard was a French historian. He was director of studies at the École pratique des hautes études and specialist in the history of Protestantism. Biography Émile-Guillaume Léonard did his secondary studies at the Lycée in Montpellier then Louis-le-Grand in Paris. He entered the National School of Charters in 1911. His studies were interrupted by the First World War. He was seriously wounded during the Battle of Verdun and suffered serious damage to his arm. He befriended Guillaume Apollinaire, who dedicated his poem "À Nîmes" to him.

#8396

Leopoldo Artucio

1903 - 1976 (73 years)

Leopoldo Artucio was an Uruguayan architect and architectural historian. Artucio was also Dean of the Faculty of Architecture in Montevideo. Selected publications Montevideo y la arquitectura moderna .

#8397

Giuseppe Ferrari

Giuseppe Ferrari

1811 - 1876 (65 years)

Giuseppe Ferrari was an Italian philosopher, historian and politician. Biography He was born at Milan, studied law at Pavia and graduated in 1831. A follower of Romagnosi and Giovan Battista Vico, his first works were an article in the Biblioteca Italiana entitled "Mente di Gian Domenico Romagnosi" , and a complete edition of the works of Vico, prefaced by an appreciation .

#8398

Constant-Philippe Serrure

1805 - 1872 (67 years)

Constant-Philippe Serrure was a prolific Belgian historian and collector who taught at Ghent University. He was a founding member and active contributor of the Maetschappy der Vlaemsche Bibliophilen, which published editions of medieval Flemish texts.

#8399

Walther Hubatsch

Walther Hubatsch

1915 - 1984 (69 years)

Walther Hubatsch was a German military historian. He was born in Königsberg in East Prussia. During World War II he served in the German Army. He was appointed professor in Göttingen from 1949, and from 1956 at the University of Bonn. Among his works is a treatment of Operation Weserübung, the German attack on Denmark and Norway in 1940.

#8400

Józef Siemieński

1882 - 1941 (59 years)

Józef Siemieński was a Polish archivist, historian of law. Siemieński was from 1925 until 1939 director of the Central Archives of Historical Records in Warsaw and professor at the Jagiellonian University since 1938.

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