The Most Influential People Across History
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List of the most influential people in History,
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Alexander Riese
1840 - 1924 (84 years)
Alexander Riese was a German classical scholar. An R, after his surname, indicates the canonical numeration for poems surviving in the Anthologia Latina, of which he edited into a more critically accurate collection than the original nucleus.
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Edwyn Bevan
1870 - 1943 (73 years)
Edwyn Robert Bevan OBE, FBA was a versatile British philosopher and historian of the Hellenistic world. Life Edwyn Robert Bevan was the fourteenth of sixteen children of Robert Cooper Lee Bevan, a partner in Barclays Bank, and his second wife Emma Frances Shuttleworth, daughter of Philip Nicholas Shuttleworth, Bishop of Chichester. He was educated at Monkton Combe School and at New College, Oxford.
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Demetrios Bernardakis
1833 - 1907 (74 years)
Demetrios Bernardakis , was a polymath writer and Professor of History at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Biographical sketch He was born at Agia Marina, Lesbos . His father was Nikolaos Vernardakis, originally from Crete, while his mother was Melissini, of the Trantalis family. His brothers were the learned Athanasios Bernardakis and Gregorios Bernardakis.
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Rochus von Liliencron
1820 - 1912 (92 years)
Rochus Wilhelm Traugott Heinrich Ferdinand Freiherr von Liliencron was a Germanist and historian, known for his collection of German Volkslieder , published in five volumes in 1865–1869, and as the editor of the biographical reference work Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie , published 1875–1912.
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Walter Kuhn
1903 - 1983 (80 years)
Walter Kuhn , was an Austrian-born German folklorist , historian and Ostforscher. Prior to World War II, Kuhn belonged to the German minority in Poland. His academic work specialized in German minorities outside Germany, particularly in the area of Ukraine, especially Volhynia. He focused his research on German language islands. In 1936, Kuhn moved to Germany to take a professorship at the University of Breslau. In 1940, he joined the Nazi Party. During the war, he advised various Nazi plans of ethnic cleansing aimed at Jews, Poles and their replacement by German settlers from further east.
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Friedrich Keutgen
1861 - 1936 (75 years)
Friedrich Wilhelm Eduard Keutgen was a German historian and professor of history at the University of Hamburg, after his first professorial appointment as professor of medieval and modern history at the University of Jena. He was born at Bremen and studied at Giessen, Göttingen, and Strassburg. He was lecturer at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in 1904-05, and organized and became lecturer at the in 1910. He wrote:Die Hansa und England im Vierzehnten Jahrhundert Untersuchungen über den Ursprung der deutschen Stadtverfassung Die Aufgabe der Genealogie Urkunden zur städtischen Verfass...
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Marian Jedlicki
1899 - 1954 (55 years)
Marian Zygmunt Jedlicki was a Polish lawyer, historian and a professor at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and the University of Poznań. He is well known for his translation of the Thietmar Chronicle, an early 11th century document .
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Friedrich Christian August Hasse
1773 - 1848 (75 years)
Friedrich Christian August Hasse was a German historian. He was the father of pathologist Karl Ewald Hasse . He studied legal science, philosophy and history at the University of Wittenberg, and from 1798 was an associate professor at the cadet institute in Dresden. In 1803 he was named a professor of morality and history at the institute. From 1828 to 1848 he was a professor of auxiliary sciences of history at the University of Leipzig, where in 1840/41 he served as dean to the faculty of philosophy.
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Ignas Jonynas
1884 - 1954 (70 years)
Ignas Jonynas was a Lithuanian diplomat, historian, and university professor. As a diplomat he is known for negotiations with the Second Polish Republic and League of Nations regarding Vilnius Region. As a historian he specialized in the history of Lithuania in the 13–16th centuries and lectured at the University of Lithuania and Vilnius University from 1924 until his death. He published little, but had a formative influence on the subsequent generations of historians.
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Johann Christoph Heilbronner
1706 - 1745 (39 years)
Johann Christoph Heilbronner was a German mathematical historian and theologian. Literary works Versuch einer Geschichte der Mathematik and Arithmetik , 1739Historia matheseos universae a mundo condito ad seculum post Chr. Nat. XVI , 1742These two books are the first books that named and used the phrase "mathematical history ".
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Erich Marcks
1861 - 1938 (77 years)
Erich Marcks was a German historian. Life and career Born in Magdeburg, the son of the Protestant architect and government builder Albrecht Marcks , after attending the Magdeburg Pädagogium zum Kloster Unser lieben Frauen from 1879, studied in Magdeburg, first in Straßburg, later at Bonn and Berlin, among others with liberal teachers like Heinrich Nissen and Theodor Mommsen. In 1884, Marcks completed his doctorate under Nissen in Strasbourg about Roman history
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Adolf Büchler
1867 - 1939 (72 years)
Adolf Büchler was an Austro-Hungarian rabbi, historian and theologian. Biography In 1887, he began his theological studies at the Rabbinical Seminary of Budapest, and at the same time studied in the Department of Philosophy of the university under Ignác Goldziher and Moritz Kármán. Büchler continued his studies at the Breslau Seminary and in 1890 graduated with a PhD from Leipzig University, his dissertation being Zur Entstehung der Hebräischen Accente, which was later published in the Sitzungsberichte der Wiener Akademie der Wissenschaften of 1891.
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Stephen Koss
1940 - 1984 (44 years)
Stephen Edward Koss was an American historian specialising in subjects relating to Britain. Koss received his BA, MA, and PhD from Columbia University, where he was a student of R.K. Webb. He began his academic career at the University of Delaware, and became an assistant professor at Barnard College, New York City in 1966, and then a full professor in 1971. He was appointed a professor of history at Columbia University in 1978, where he had completed his bachelor's and master's degrees, as well as his doctorate; the doctoral thesis was turned into his first book John Morley at the India Office, 1905–1910 published in 1969, the same year as his biography of R.B.
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Leo
1860 - 1932 (72 years)
Arakel Grigori Babakhanian , commonly known by his pen name Leo , was an Armenian historian, writer, critic, and professor at Yerevan State University. He is best known for authoring a multi-volume work on the history of Armenia. Leo adopted a critical stance in examining some of the most important issues in Armenian history, literature and contemporary problems of the early 20th century.
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Henry Martyn Baird
1832 - 1906 (74 years)
Henry Martyn Baird was an American historian and educator. He is best known as a historian of the Huguenots. Life A son of Robert Baird , the Presbyterian preacher and author who worked both in the United States and in Europe for the cause of temperance, Henry Martyn Baird was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on January 17, 1832. The younger Baird spent eight years of his early youth with his father in Paris and Geneva, and in 1850 graduated from New York University. He then lived for two years in Italy and Greece, was a student in the Union Theological Seminary in New York City from 1853 ...
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Albert Bruckner
1904 - 1985 (81 years)
Albert Bruckner was a Swiss historian, palaeographer and medievalist. Albert Bruckner, the son of a pastor of the same name, studied history in Basel, Lausanne, Berlin, Florence and Münster. After his doctorate in Cologne in 1929, he was an assistant in Berlin. In 1931 he returned to Basel. From 1933 to 1941 he was active at the , and from 1961 to 1966 he was head of the department. From 1948 onwards, Bruckner was an extraordinary professor of medieval history at the University of Basel. From 1966 until 1974, he was head of the .
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Thomas Francis Carter
1882 - 1925 (43 years)
Thomas Francis Carter was an American scholar who wrote the first book-length history in the West on the Chinese origins of printing. Life and career Thomas Francis Carter's early life is not well documented. The first we know of him is that he graduated from Princeton University in 1904, at the age of 22. Two years later, he embarked with three friends on a world tour, including a visit to China. In Nanjing, Carter left his companions in order to visit two cousins who were missionaries in Huaiyuan, Anhui province, making the 250-kilometre journey on foot with a group of Chinese merchants. By the time he reached his destination he was smitten by China.
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Astrid Friis
1893 - 1966 (73 years)
Astrid Friis was a Danish historian. In 1945, she was appointed professor of history at the University of Copenhagen, so becoming the first female professor in a Danish university. She was immediately recognized as an outstanding researcher with the publication in 1927 of her seminal work on Alderman Cockayne's project and the cloth trade which examined the history of trade and commerce in 17th-century Britain. She later turned to Danish history writing biographies of officials and merchants from the 16th and 17th centuries. From 1942, she edited the Danish Journal of History.
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Mikhail De Pulet
1822 - 1885 (63 years)
Mikhail Fyodorovich De Pulet was a Russian literary critic and historian, publicist, journalist, editor and pedagogue. A Kharkiv University alumnus , De Pulet started out as a teacher in Russian language and history in Voronezh, at the Mikhaylovsky Cadet Corps. In 1862–63 he edited the regional newspaper Voronezh Governorate News. In 1865 he was sent to Vilno as an inspector of the city's First Gymnasium and for three years co-edited the newspaper Vilensky Vestnik. Since 1857 De Pulet worked as a literary critic, first for Moskovskiye Vedomosti and later for Atheneum, Russkaya Beseda, Russky Vestnik, Den, Russkoye Slovo.
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John Calvin Ferguson
1866 - 1945 (79 years)
John Calvin Ferguson was an American scholar of Chinese art, collector and procurer for American art museums, and a Chinese governmental adviser. Ferguson was the son of John Ferguson and Catherine Matilda Pomeroy . His father was a Methodist minister and his mother a schoolteacher. Ferguson attended Albert College in Ontario, Canada and then Boston University, where he graduated in 1886. He was ordained in the Methodist Episcopal Church and, in 1887, married Mary Elizabeth Wilson.
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Archibald Ross Lewis
1914 - 1990 (76 years)
Archibald Ross Lewis was an American historian, World War II Veteran, professor, and author. He wrote 14 books, and more than 100 articles. As a professor he taught at the University of South Carolina, University of Texas, and University of Massachusetts, in that order.
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Djoser
2800 BC - 2700 BC (100 years)
Djoser was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh of the 3rd Dynasty during the Old Kingdom, and was the founder of that epoch. He is also known by his Hellenized names Tosorthros and Sesorthos . He was the son of King Khasekhemwy and Queen Nimaathap, but whether he was also the direct successor to their throne is unclear. Most Ramesside king lists identify a king named Nebka as preceding him, but there are difficulties in connecting that name with contemporary Horus names, so some Egyptologists question the received throne sequence. Djoser is known for his step pyramid, which is the earliest colossal ...
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John Lynch
1599 - 1673 (74 years)
John Lynch was an Irish Roman Catholic priest, known as a historian and Archdeacon of Tuam. Life He was born into a Hiberno-Norman family at Galway, probably in 1599; according to tradition his father was Alexander Lynch, a schoolmaster. He was educated by the Jesuits, and became a secular priest about 1622. He celebrated Mass in secret, and in private houses; and kept a school.
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Sverre Steen
1898 - 1983 (85 years)
Sverre Steen was a Norwegian historian and professor at the University of Oslo from 1938 to 1965. He served as president of the Norwegian Historical Association from 1936 to 1947 Biography Steen was born in Bergen, Norway. He was the son of Johan Martin Nilsen Steen and Bertha Kathrine Hopland . He was a student at Bergen Cathedral School from 1911 to 1916. He attended the University of Oslo from 1918 where he was mentored by professor of history Edvard Bull Sr. .
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Heinrich Gottfried Philipp Gengler
1817 - 1901 (84 years)
Heinrich Gottfried Philipp Gengler was a German historian of law, Geheimrat and academic lecturer. Philipp Gengler was born in Bamberg in Germany. He studied at the University of Würzburg and at the University of Heidelberg. In 1842 he obtained from the University of Erlangen the Ph. D. degree. One year later he qualified there for inauguration. In 1847 he became a lecturer in German legal history at Erlangen University, and in 1851 he was awarded a full professorship at the University of Erlangen. He died in Erlangen, aged 84.
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Emily Sadka
1919 - 1968 (49 years)
Emily or Emma Sadka was an Iraqi-Singaporean historian and researcher specialising in the Political History of the Malayan region, which she taught at the University of Malaya and in Australian universities.
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Gerhard Gran
1856 - 1925 (69 years)
Gerhard von der Lippe Gran was a Norwegian literary historian, professor, magazine editor, essayist and biographer. Personal life Gran was born in Bergen as the son of merchant Christen Knagenhjelm Gran and his wife Constance Mowinckel . He was the paternal grandson of politician Jens Gran, and a second cousin of botanist Haaken Hasberg Gran and aviator Tryggve Gran. On the maternal side was a first cousin of Wenche von der Lippe Mowinckel, who was a granddaughter of Jacob von der Lippe and mother of Arthur, Waldemar and Gerhard C. Kallevig. Wenche lived with Gerhard Gran's family while atte...
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Arnold Bergstraesser
1896 - 1964 (68 years)
Arnold Bergstraesser was a German political scientist. Along with Wolfgang Abendroth, Karl Dietrich Bracher, Theodor Eschenburg, and Eric Voegelin, he was one of the founders of political science in West Germany after World War II.
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Maria Bezobrazova
1857 - 1914 (57 years)
Maria Vladimirovna Bezobrazova was a philosopher, historiographer, educator, journalist and women's rights activist from the Russian Empire. She was "the first among Russian women to receive training in philosophy".
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Robert Matteson Johnston
1867 - 1920 (53 years)
Robert Matteson Johnston was an American historian and an important scholar of military history. Biography Robert Matteson Johnston was born in Paris on April 11, 1867. He was educated at Eton College and Pembroke College, Cambridge. He taught at Harvard University and Mount Holyoke College, and was a founding member of the faculty at Simmons University. In 1917, he was appointed Chief of the Historical Section of the General Staff in the field with the rank of major in the United States Army.
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Constantin Giurescu
1875 - 1919 (44 years)
Constantin Giurescu was a Romanian historian. In 1914, he became a titular member of the Romanian Academy. Biography Giurescu was born in Chiojdu, Buzău County and studied at the Saints Peter and Paul High School in Ploiești. He graduated in July 1898 from the University of Bucharest with a diploma in Philosophy and Letters. He taught history at the Unirea High School in Focșani from 1898 to 1902. In 1900 he met Elena Antonescu , the daughter of Costache Antonescu, a local merchant, and married her in January 1901. In October of that year they had a son, Constantin C. Giurescu, who went on ...
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John VIII Palaiologos
1392 - 1448 (56 years)
John VIII Palaiologos or Palaeologus was the penultimate Byzantine emperor. Ruling from 1425 to 1448, he attempted, and failed, the reunification of the Orthodox and Catholic churches and prioritized the protection of Constantinople against the Ottoman Empire, he was succeeded by his brother, Constantine XI.
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Robert Joseph Dwyer
1908 - 1976 (68 years)
Robert Joseph Dwyer was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was the fifth Archbishop of Portland from 1966 to 1974, having previously served as the second Bishop of Reno . Early life and education Dwyer was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, the only child of John Charles and Mabel Dwyer. His father was of Irish descent, and his mother of French Canadian. He attended Wasatch Public School and Judge Memorial High School. In 1925, he enrolled at the Marist Seminary in Langhorne, Pennsylvania. Shortly afterwards, he transferred to St. Patrick's Seminary in Menlo Park, California.
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Arnold Reymond
1874 - 1958 (84 years)
Arnold Reymond was a Swiss theolgian, philosopher and historian of science. Life Reymond received a doctorate from the University of Geneva in 1908; his thesis on the history of ideas of the infinite, Logique et mathématiques, was reviewed by Bertrand Russell in Mind. Reymond taught at the University of Neuchâtel from 1912 to 1925, where he taught and influenced Jean Piaget. In 1925 he took up a chair at the University of Lausanne.
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Bertram Colgrave
1889 - 1968 (79 years)
Bertram Colgrave was a medieval historian, antiquarian and archaeologist, specializing on the lives of the early saints in Anglo-Saxon England. Life Colgrave attended King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys in Birmingham, prior to undergraduate studies at the University of Birmingham. He went on to study for a second degree in Anglo-Saxon and Middle English at Clare College in the University of Cambridge, teaching briefly at Merchiston Castle School near Edinburgh from 1916 to 1918. In 1920 he was appointed lecturer in English at Durham University, with a promotion to reader in 1930. He was attached to Hatfield College.
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Hugo Valentin
1888 - 1963 (75 years)
Hugo Valentin was a Swedish historian, scholar and leading Zionist. He received his PhD from Uppsala University in 1916 and took up teaching at the Teachers Training College in Uppsala and at a high school. In 1930 he was appointed lecturer at the high school in Uppsala . In 1930 he was also awarded the title of Docent by the university, and, some years later, in 1948, the government awarded him the honorary title of professor.
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Richard Lodge
1855 - 1936 (81 years)
Sir Richard Lodge was a British historian. He was born at Penkhull, Staffordshire, the fourth of eight sons and a daughter of Oliver Lodge , later a china clay merchant at Wolstanton, Staffordshire, and his wife, Grace . His siblings included Sir Oliver Lodge , physicist; Eleanor Constance Lodge , historian and principal of Westfield College, London; and Alfred Lodge , mathematician.
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Friedrich Hermann Schubert
1925 - 1973 (48 years)
Friedrich Hermann Schubert was a German historian. Life Schubert was born in Dresden in 1925 as the son of the Dresden professor of architecture and architect Otto Schubert and the teacher Veronika née Strüver, whose parents were well established in the high society of Dresden; this was especially true of his grandfather, who was a model for him as a lawyer. His paternal grandfather is the sculptor Hermann Schubert. Schubert attended the , which he completed in February 1944 with the Abitur. He escaped being drafted into the Wehrmacht because of an illness that took him two years. In 1946, however, he began studying history and economics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
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Aarno Maliniemi
1892 - 1972 (80 years)
Aarno Henrik Maliniemi was a Finnish historian, professor in church history at Helsinki University 1945–1960. Maliniemi was an expert on the medieval church. He studied early Finnish literature, and was editor of a number of publications and bibliographies.
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Karl Johannes Neumann
1857 - 1917 (60 years)
Karl Johannes Neumann was a German classical historian. He studied classical philology, ancient history and church history at the University of Leipzig, later continuing his education at the University of Tübingen. In 1880 he received his doctorate at Leipzig with a dissertation on the anti-Christianity writings of Emperor Julian . Following graduation, he worked as an assistant in the university library at Halle. In 1880 he became an associate professor at the University of Strasbourg, where he gained a full professorship in 1890. In 1909/10 he served as university rector.
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Abu Mohammed Habibullah
1911 - 1984 (73 years)
Abu Mohammed Habibullah, also known as ABM Habibullah, was a Bangladeshi historian and writer. Early life Habibullah was born on 1911 in Burdwan District, West Bengal, British India. He graduated from Hughli Madrasa in 1926 and Islamic Intermediate College, Dhaka in 1928. He graduated with a B.A. in history from Hooghly Mohsin College in 1931 and a M.A. in history from the University of Calcutta in 1933. He earned his PhD from the School of Oriental Studies of the University of London. He also received a diploma in library science.
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Mikhaïl Suzumov
1893 - 1982 (89 years)
Mikhaïl Suzumov was a Soviet Russian historian, Doctor of Sciences in Historical Sciences . He was a professor at the Ural State University. His father was a veterinarian by profession. In 1911 he became a student at University of Tartu, where he studied under prof. Alexander Vasiliev, and in 1916, he graduated. He is a Byzantine scholar. From 1918 he served in the Red Army in the 27th Rifle Division. From 1920 he lived in the city of Zlatoust. In 1938 he worked for Ural State Pedagogical University and in 1943, Suzumov defended his Candidate's Dissertation. His opponent was A. I. Neusykhin. In 1954, he defended his doctoral dissertation.
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Traian Herseni
1907 - 1980 (73 years)
Traian Herseni was a Romanian social scientist, journalist, and political figure. First noted as a favorite disciple of Dimitrie Gusti, he helped establish the Romanian school of rural sociology in the 1920s and early '30s, and took part in interdisciplinary study groups and field trips. A prolific essayist and researcher, he studied isolated human groups across the country, trying to define relations between sociology, ethnography, and cultural anthropology, with an underlying interest in sociological epistemology. He was particularly interested in the peasant cultures and pastoral society of the Făgăraș Mountains.
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Ian Turner
1922 - 1978 (56 years)
Ian Alexander Hamilton Turner was an Australian political activist, serving important roles in both the Communist Party of Australia and Australian Labour Party. As a leading historian, he wrote the book Industrial Labour and Politics, which examined the Australian labour politics.
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Daniel Rapant
1897 - 1988 (91 years)
Daniel Rapant was a Slovak historian, archivist and university teacher. Life He graduated in Skalica in 1917 then he had studied history and Slavic studies at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague . At the same time he had studied also at the State Archivist School in Prague . After completing his studies in Czechoslovakia, he studied at Paris-Sorbonne University. In 1924 he became the main county archivist in Bratislava.
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Friedrich Philippi
1853 - 1930 (77 years)
Gustav Friedrich Dettmar Philippi was a German archivist and historian. He studied philology at the University of Bonn, receiving his doctorate in 1876 with a dissertation on the Tabula Peutingeriana. Following graduation, he worked as an archivist at the state archives in Münster. In 1888, he was appointed head of the state archives in Osnabrück and, in 1897, returned to Münster as director of the archives.
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Edward Nares
1762 - 1841 (79 years)
Edward Nares was an English historian and theologian, and general writer. Life He was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford. He was Fellow of Merton College, Oxford and in 1813, he became Regius Professor of Modern History. He was curate of St Peter-in-the-East, Oxford, and then rector of Biddenden from 1798, of New Church, Romney from 1827.
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Ban Zhao
45 - 116 (71 years)
Ban Zhao , courtesy name Huiban , was a Chinese historian, philosopher, and politician. She was the first known female Chinese historian and, along with Pamphile of Epidaurus, one of the first known female historians. She completed her brother Ban Gu's work on the history of the Western Han, the Book of Han. She also wrote Lessons for Women, an influential work on women's conduct. She also had great interest in astronomy and mathematics and wrote poems, commemorative writings, argumentations, commentaries, essays and several longer works, not all of which survive. She became China's most famous female scholar and an instructor of Taoist sexual practices for the imperial family.
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A. Hamilton Thompson
1873 - 1952 (79 years)
Alexander Hamilton Thompson, was a historian. He was Professor of Medieval History at the University of Leeds from 1924 to 1939. Early life and education Thompson was born on 7 November 1873 at Clifton, Bristol, the son of The Reverend John Thompson, Vicar of St Gabriel's, Bristol, and his wife Annie Hastings . He attended Clifton College from 1883 to 1890 and Totnes School for a year. He gained a minor scholarship to read Classics at St John's College, Cambridge from 1892 to 1895. He received his BA in 1895, later promoted to MA in 1903.
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Christian Martin Frähn
1782 - 1851 (69 years)
Christian Martin Joachim Frähn , German and Russian numismatist and historian, was born at Rostock, Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Frähn began his Oriental studies under Tychsen at the university of Rostock, and afterwards continued them at Göttingen and Tübingen. He became a Latin master in Pestalozzi's famous institute in 1804, taught at Rostock as a Privatdozent in 1806, and in the following year was chosen to fill the chair of Oriental languages in the Russian university of Kazan. Though in 1815 he was invited to succeed Tychsen at Rostock, he preferred to go to St Petersburg, where he became director of the Asiatic museum and councillor of state.
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