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List of the most influential people in History,

#1401

Richard Kieckhefer

#14632

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Richard Kieckhefer is an American medievalist, religious historian, scholar of church architecture, and author. He is Professor of History and John Evans Professor of Religious Studies at Northwestern University.

#1402

Rebekka Habermas

Rebekka Habermas

#34721

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Rebekka Habermas is a German historian, professor of modern history at the University of Göttingen, in Germany. Habermas has made substantial contributions to German social and cultural history of the 19th century.

#1403

Dieter Langewiesche

Dieter Langewiesche

#28577

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Dieter Langewiesche is a German historian. Langewiesche is one of the leading experts on the history of nationalism and liberalism. In 1996 he received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize. Works In English Liberalism in Germany. Translated by Christiane Banerji. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 2000, Europe 1848. Revolution and Reform. Edited by Dieter Dowe, Heinz-Gerhard Haupt, D. L. and Jonathan Sperber, New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2001. Territorial Revisionism and the Allies of Germany in the Second World War: Goals, Expectations, Practices. Edited by Marina Cattaruzza, Stefan Dyroff & Dieter Langewiesche.

#1404

Richard Stites

#40664

Overall Influence

1931 - 2010 (79 years)

Richard Stites was a historian of Russian culture and professor of history at Georgetown University, famed for "landmark work on the Russian women’s movement and in numerous articles and books on Russian and Soviet mass culture."

#1405

Reinhard Wenskus

#45541

Overall Influence

1916 - 2002 (86 years)

Reinhard Wenskus was a German historian who was Professor of Medieval History at the University of Göttingen. His theories on the identity of Germanic peoples have had a major influence on contemporary research by historians of late antiquity.

#1406

Werner Maser

#9730

Overall Influence

1922 - 2007 (85 years)

Werner Maser was a German historian, journalist and professor at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg. Maser was the first historian to claim that the Hitler Diaries were forgeries. He was born in Paradeningken to a farmer and horse breeder. During the Second World War he served in the German Army as an infantry officer. After Germany's defeat, Maser was interned by the Soviets in Sachsenhausen concentration camp. After his release, he studied theology, philosophy and political science at Berlin, Munich and Erlangen. His doctoral thesis was titled The Organisation of the Führer Legend.

#1407

Mae Ngai

#39326

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Mae Ngai is an American historian and Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of History at Columbia University. She focuses on nationalism, citizenship, ethnicity, immigration, and race in 20th-century United States history.

#1408

Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska

#19905

Overall Influence

Ina-Maria Zweiniger-Bargielowska, known professionally as Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska, is a British-American academic historian specialising in 20th-century Britain. Since 2010, she has been Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

#1409

Josef Wiesehöfer

#32248

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Josef Wiesehöfer is a German classical scholar and former professor of Ancient history at the Department of Classics of the University of Kiel. He is an internationally renowned expert on the history of pre-Islamic Persia and the forms of contact between the Greek and Roman World and the Ancient Near East. His most famous publication is Ancient Persia, 550 BC to 650 AD .

#1410

Philip Matyszak

#58532

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Philip L. Matyszak is a British non-fiction author, primarily of historical works relating to ancient Rome. Biography Matyszak studied ancient history at Royal Holloway, University of London, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He then studied Roman history at St John's College, Oxford, graduating with a Doctor of Philosophy degree. His doctoral thesis submitted in 1993, and was titled "Dominance in the Roman senate from Sulla to the Principate".

#1411

Conrad Totman

#45310

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (90 years)

Conrad Davis Totman is an American environmental historian, Japanologist, and translator. Totman was a Professor Emeritus at Yale University. Early life Totman was born in Conway, Massachusetts. He did his undergraduate studies at the and subsequently earned a in East Asian history at Harvard University in 1964. He enlisted in the army in 1953. He served with the 8th Preventive Medicine Control Detachment in South Korea arriving 5 June 1954, just after the Korean War.

#1412

Marshall Clagett

#18937

Overall Influence

1916 - 2005 (89 years)

Marshall Clagett was an American historian of science who specialized in medieval science. John Murdoch describes him as "a distinguished medievalist" who was "the last member of a triumvirate [with Henry Guerlac and I. Bernard Cohen, who] … established the history of science as a recognized discipline within American universities" while Edward Grant ranks him "among the greatest historians and scholars of the twentieth century."

#1413

Fanula Papazoglu

Fanula Papazoglu

#53662

Overall Influence

1917 - 2001 (84 years)

Fanula Papazoglu was a Yugoslav and Serbian classical scholar, epigrapher and academic. She was an expert in Ancient history of the Balkans. She founded the Centre for Ancient Epigraphy and Numismatics in 1970.

#1414

A. H. de Oliveira Marques

#28163

Overall Influence

1933 - 2007 (74 years)

António Henrique Rodrigo de Oliveira Marques was a Portuguese historian. Life Oliveira Marques was born in the 'freguesia' of S. João do Estoril, Cascais. He studied history and philosophy and graduated in 1956 from the University of Lisbon with a thesis entitled A Sociedade em Portugal nos Séculos XII a XIV . After training in the University of Würzburg, in Germany, he would start teaching the following year at the University of Lisbon and received his doctorate in 1960. His PhD dissertation was entitled Hansa e Portugal na Idade Média .

#1415

Jean-Pierre Azéma

#16572

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (87 years)

Jean-Pierre Azéma is a French historian. Azéma is a member of the scientific counsel for the Institut François Mitterrand, an organisation founded by François Mitterrand with the goal of "contributing to the propagation of knowledge on the political and social history of modern France". He supported Ségolène Royal for the presidency.

#1416

Karl Leyser

#55460

Overall Influence

1920 - 1992 (72 years)

Karl Joseph Leyser was a German-born British historian who was Fellow and Tutor in History, Magdalen College, Oxford, from 1948 to 1984, and Chichele Professor of Medieval History at Oxford University, from 1984 to 1988.

#1417

Harry Kreisler

#21777

Overall Influence

Harry Kreisler is an American historian who was formerly executive director of the Institute of International Studies at University of California, Berkeley. He is best known as the creator and host of the television program Conversations with History. In these video interviews, distinguished men and women from around the world talk about their lives and their work. Guests include diplomats, statesmen, and soldiers; economists and political analysts; scientists and historians; writers and foreign correspondents; activists and artists. The interviews include discussion of political, economic, military, legal, cultural, and social issues shaping our world.

#1418

Thomas S. Noonan

#63634

Overall Influence

1938 - 2001 (63 years)

Thomas Schaub Noonan was an American historian, Slavicist and anthropologist who specialized in early Russian history and Eurasian nomad cultures. Educated at Indiana University, Noonan was, for many years, a Professor of History at the University of Minnesota. He was the author of dozens of books and articles and one of the leading authorities on the development of the Kievan Rus and the Khazar Khaganate. Noonan placed a great deal of importance on numismatics in understanding economic and social trends. He was the mentor of numerous scholars and leading historians. In 2001 many of his colle...

#1419

Dorothy Ross

#27628

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (88 years)

Dorothy Ross is an American historian and Arthur O. Lovejoy Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. She attended Smith College and Columbia University and taught at Hunter College and at the University of Virginia before Johns Hopkins. Her books include the G. Stanley Hall: The Psychologist as Prophet and The Origins of American Social Science . The Society for U.S. Intellectual History named the Dorothy Ross Prize after Ross to honor her work in the history of psychology and modern social science.

#1420

Gerald Feldman

#27592

Overall Influence

1937 - 2007 (70 years)

Gerald Donald Feldman was an American historian who specialized in 20th-century German history. He was Professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley, and received several prizes and honors, including the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

#1421

Eugene Rogan

#19918

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Eugene Lawrence Rogan, is an American historian of the Middle East and North Africa from the late Ottoman era to the present. He is currently Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History at the University of Oxford.

#1422

Donald Ostrowski

#42609

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Donald "Don" Gary Ostrowski is an American historian, and a lecturer in history at Harvard Extension School. He specialises in the political and social history Kievan Rus' and Muscovy . Biography Ostrowski received his PhD in history from Pennsylvania State University in 1977. He is known for his work on textual criticism of the Primary Chronicle. The Povest’ vremennykh let: An Interlinear Collation and Paradosis under his co-editorship received the Early Slavic Studies Association Award for Distinguished Scholarship. Together with scholars such as Oleksiy Tolochko and , Ostrowski is credit...

#1423

María Rosa Menocal

#24882

Overall Influence

1953 - 2012 (59 years)

María Rosa Menocal was a Cuban-born scholar of medieval culture and history and Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University. Education Menocal earned a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, working under Samuel Armistead, a student of Américo Castro. Before joining the Yale faculty in 1986, she taught Romance philology at the University of Pennsylvania.

#1424

Geoffrey Bolton

#53340

Overall Influence

1931 - 2015 (84 years)

Geoffrey Curgenven Bolton was an Australian historian, academic and writer. Life He attended Wesley College, Perth from 1943 to 1947. He published works on Australian history, authoring 13 books, his final being Land of Vision and Mirage: Western Australia since 1826.

#1425

Than Tun

#20440

Overall Influence

1923 - 2005 (82 years)

Than Tun was an influential Burmese historian as well as an outspoken critic of the military junta of Burma. For his lifelong contributions to the development of worldwide study of Burmese history and culture, Professor Than Tun was awarded the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize in 2000.

#1426

Elizabeth A. Fenn

Elizabeth A. Fenn

#55103

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Elizabeth Anne Fenn is an American historian. Her book Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People, won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for History. She serves as the Walter S. and Lucienne Driskill chair in Western American History at University of Colorado-Boulder.

#1427

Owen Davies

#16893

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Owen Davies is a British historian who specialises in the history of magic, witchcraft, ghosts, and popular medicine. He is currently Professor in History at the University of Hertfordshire and has been described as Britain's "foremost academic expert on the history of magic".

#1428

Rosalyn Terborg-Penn

Rosalyn Terborg-Penn

#25536

Overall Influence

1941 - 2018 (77 years)

Rosalyn Terborg-Penn was an American professor of history and author. Terborg-Penn specialized in African-American history and black women's history. Her book African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote, 1850–1920 was a ground-breaking work that recovered the histories of black women in the women's suffrage movement in the United States. She was a faculty member of Morgan State University.

#1429

Jere L. Bacharach

#34155

Overall Influence

1938 - 2023 (85 years)

Jere L. Bacharach was a Professor Emeritus, in the Department of History, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. Academia Born in New York, Bacharach attended Trinity College, receiving his B.A. in 1960, Harvard University receiving his M.A. in 1962, and the University of Michigan where he received his Ph.D. in 1967. He has been a member of the University of Washington faculty since 1967 having officially retired in 2004 although he taught his last class in the fall term, 2007. While a member of the University of Washington faculty, Bacharach served as Chair, Department of History; Director, Henry M.

#1430

Dagmar Herzog

#37981

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Dagmar Herzog is Distinguished Professor of History and the Daniel Rose Faculty Scholar at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Herzog has published extensively on the histories of sexuality and gender, psychoanalysis and Freud, theology and religion, disability, eugenics, Jewish-Christian relations and Holocaust memory.

#1431

Helen Graham

#51271

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Helen Graham is a Historian. She is Professor Emeritus of Modern European History at the Department of History, Royal Holloway University of London. Overview Her research interests span the social and cultural history of 1930s and 1940s Spain, including the Spanish Civil War; Europe in the inter-war period ; comparative civil wars; the social construction of state power in 1940s Spain; women under Francoism; comparative gender history.

#1432

Alessandro Barbero

Alessandro Barbero

#26150

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Alessandro Barbero is an Italian historian, novelist and essayist. Barbero was born in Turin. He attended the University of Turin, where he studied literature and Medieval history. He won the 1996 Strega Prize, Italy's most distinguished literary award, for Bella vita e guerre altrui di Mr. Pyle gentiluomo. His second novel, Romanzo russo. Fiutando i futuri supplizi, has been translated into English as The Anonymous Novel. Sensing the Future Torments .

#1433

Christopher Smout

#40466

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (91 years)

Thomas Christopher Smout CBE, FBA, FRSE, FSA Scot, FRSGS is a Scottish academic, historian, author and Historiographer Royal in Scotland. Early life One of the five sons of Arthur Smout, Christopher Smout was educated at The Leys School and Clare College, Cambridge.

#1434

H. Arnold Barton

#38797

Overall Influence

1929 - 2016 (87 years)

Hildor Arnold Barton was an American historian and a national authority on Scandinavian history, especially the history of Sweden, and of Swedes and other Scandinavians in North America. Early life Barton was born of Swedish descent in Los Angeles, California, in 1929, the son of Sven Hildor Barton and Marguerite Anna née Lemke . His paternal grandfather was born in Djursdala parish, Kalmar, Småland county, Sweden and emigrated to America in 1867. His paternal grandmother was born in Bollnäs parish, Hälsingland county and emigrated to America in 1889. His mother was a niece of Harry Edward A...

#1435

Alexander Dallin

#13459

Overall Influence

1924 - 2000 (76 years)

Alexander Davidovich Dallin was an American historian, political scientist, and international relations scholar at Columbia University, where he was the Adlai Stevenson Professor of International Relations and the director of the Russian Institute. Dallin was also the Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History at Stanford University, and served as Director for the Center for Russian and East European Studies.

#1436

John Putnam Demos

#27069

Overall Influence

John Putnam Demos is an American author and historian. He has written two books that discuss witch hunts and has discovered that one of his ancestors was John Putnam Senior, a member of the Putnam family that was prominent in the Salem witch trials.

#1437

Edward Champlin

#49150

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Edward Champlin is a Professor of Classics, Cotsen Professor of Humanities, and former Master of Butler College at Princeton University. He teaches Roman history, Roman law, and Latin literature and has written several books regarding these subjects. He is also the co-editor of The Cambridge Ancient History, 2nd edition, volume 10, The Augustan Empire, 43 B.C.–A.D. 69 .

#1438

Judith Tarr

#29620

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Judith Tarr is an American fantasy and science fiction author. Life Tarr was born in Augusta, Maine on January 30, 1955. She is the daughter of Earle A. Tarr, Jr. , and Regina . She received her B.A. in Latin and English from Mount Holyoke College in 1976, and has an M.A. in Classics from Cambridge University, and an M.A. and PhD in Medieval Studies from Yale University. She taught Latin at Wesleyan University from 1990 to 1993.

#1439

Emmanuel K. Akyeampong

#41213

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong is a professor of history and African and African American studies, and the Oppenheimer Faculty Director of the Harvard University Center for African Studies at Harvard University. He is a faculty associate for the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, a previous board member of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute, and has also previously held a prestigious Harvard College Professorship.

#1440

Carl Bridenbaugh

#43877

Overall Influence

1903 - 1992 (89 years)

Carl Bridenbaugh was an American historian of Colonial America. He had an illustrious career, writing fourteen books and editing or co-editing five more, and he was acclaimed as a historian and teacher.

#1441

E. A. Thompson

#56826

Overall Influence

1914 - 1994 (80 years)

Edward Arthur Thompson was an Irish-born British Marxist historian of classics and medieval studies. He was professor and director of the classics department at the University of Nottingham from 1948 to 1979, and a fellow of the British Academy. Thompson was a pioneer in the study of late antiquity, and was for decades the most prominent British scholar in this field. He was particularly interested in the relations between Ancient Rome and "barbarian" peoples such as the Huns and Visigoths, and has been credited with revitalizing English-language scholarship on the history of early Germanic peoples.

#1442

Francis Paul Prucha

#33147

Overall Influence

1921 - 2015 (94 years)

Francis Paul Prucha was an American historian, professor emeritus of history at Marquette University, and specialist in the relationship between the United States and Native Americans. His work, The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians, won the Ray Allen Billington Award and was one of the two finalists for the 1985 Pulitzer Prize in History. It is regarded as a classic among professional historians.

#1443

Heather Ann Thompson

#33350

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Heather Ann Thompson is an American historian, author, activist, professor, and speaker from Detroit, Michigan. Thompson won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for History, the 2016 Bancroft Prize, and other awards for her work Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy.

#1444

Madeleine Zelin

#48523

Overall Influence

Madeleine Zelin is Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies at Columbia University. At Columbia, Zelin is affiliated with the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, the Department of History, the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, and the Columbia Law School.

#1445

Effie Pedaliu

#38190

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Effie G. H. Pedaliu is an international historian, author and Visiting Fellow at LSE IDEAS. She has held posts at LSE, KCL and UWE. She is the author of Britain, Italy and the Origins of the Cold War, , the co-editor of Britain in Global Affairs, Volume II, From Churchill to Blair, and The Foreign Office, Commerce and British Foreign Policy in the 20th Century .

#1446

Rees Davies

#46580

Overall Influence

1938 - 2005 (67 years)

Sir Robert Rees Davies, was a Welsh historian. Biography Davies was born in Merionethshire, and educated at Bala Grammar School. He was bilingual in Welsh and English. He received a First in his degree from University College London in 1959, later returning there as a lecturer in 1963. In 1959 he undertook a two-year postgraduate study of the Duchy of Lancaster's Welsh lordships in the later Middle Ages at Merton College, Oxford under the supervision of K. B. McFarlane.

#1447

Judith M. Bennett

#65171

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Judith MacKenzie Bennett is an American historian, Emerita Professor of History and John R. Hubbard Chair in British History at the University of Southern California. Bennett writes and teaches about medieval Europe, specifically focusing on gender, women's history, and rural peasants.

#1448

John Hirst

#42611

Overall Influence

1942 - 2016 (74 years)

John Bradley Hirst, was an Australian historian and social commentator. He taught at La Trobe University from 1968 until his retirement in 2006, edited Historical StudiesAustralia's leading historical journalfrom 1977 to 1980, and also served on the boards of Film Australia and the National Museum of Australia. He has been described as a "historian, public intellectual, and active citizen". He wrote widely on Australian history and society, publishing two well-received books about colonial New South Wales. Hirst also frequently published opinion pieces in the media.

#1449

Fredrik Logevall

Fredrik Logevall

#32733

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Fredrik Logevall is a Swedish-American historian and educator at Harvard University, where he is the Laurence D. Belfer Professor of International Affairs at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and professor of history in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He is a specialist in U.S. politics and foreign policy. Logevall was previously the Stephen and Madeline Anbinder Professor of History at Cornell University, where he also served as vice provost and as director of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies. He won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for History for his book Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam.

#1450

Pamela Kyle Crossley

#32802

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Pamela Kyle Crossley is a historian of modern China, northern Asia, and global history and is the Charles and Elfriede Collis Professor of History, Dartmouth College. She is a founding appointment of the Dartmouth Society of Fellows.

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