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List of the most influential people in History,

#2801

Tiit Rosenberg

#53532

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Tiit Rosenberg is an Estonian historian and professor of Estonian History in University of Tartu. In 1996–2008 was he also chairman of Õpetatud Eesti Selts . Rosenberg studies history of agriculture in 19th Century and also Estonian historiography.

#2802

Claude Clegg

#52590

Overall Influence

Claude Clegg is a historian who specializes in the history of the African diaspora in the Americas. He is currently the Lyle V. Jones Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with a joint appointment in African, African American, and Diaspora Studies.

#2803

Rudrangshu Mukherjee

#33478

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Rudrangshu Mukherjee is a historian and author of several history books. He was formerly the Opinions Editor for The Telegraph newspaper, Kolkata and the Chancellor for Ashoka University, where he also serves as Professor of History. He was the founding Vice-Chancellor of Ashoka when the University began in 2014 and was succeeded in 2017 by Pratap Bhanu Mehta.

#2804

Hanne Blank

#36443

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Hanne Blank, also known as Hanne Blank Boyd, is an American historian, writer, and editor. Her written works include Virgin: The Untouched History, Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality, and The Unapologetic Fat Girl's Guide to Exercise and Other Incendiary Acts.

#2805

Éric Toussaint

#27723

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Éric Toussaint is a historian and political scientist with a PhD from the universities of Paris VIII and Liège. He is spokesperson for the CADTM – formerly called Committee for the cancellation of Third World debt – international network, of which he is one of the founding members, and he took part in the process that launched the World Social Forum in 2001.

#2806

Éric Teyssier

#81786

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Éric Teyssier is a French academic and historian. After he obtained his doctorate on the sale of the Biens nationaux in Ardèche, he published numerous articles on the economic and social history of the French Revolution and the first French Empire. Through living history and experimental archeology, he became interested in the Roman period and especially with the gladiators, of which he became one of the specialists.

#2807

Barbara Vogel

#92524

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Barbara Vogel is a German historian. Life Born in Hamburg, Vogel studied history, German language and literature, philosophy and education. She received her doctorate in 1971 from the Historisches Seminar in Hamburg with a thesis on German policy towards Russia from 1900 to 1906, and her habilitation in 1981 in Hamburg with a thesis on the reform policies of the Prussian State Chancellor Karl August von Hardenberg . From 1984 until her retirement in 2006, Vogel taught as Professor of Modern History at the University of Hamburg.

#2808

Christian Ingrao

Christian Ingrao

#72884

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Christian Ingrao is a French historian. He is a research director at CNRS within the Raymond Aron Center for Sociological and Political Studies of the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris.

#2809

Gershon Hundert

#57758

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Gershon David Hundert was a Canadian historian of Early Modern Polish Jewry and Leanor Segal Professor at McGill University. Biography Born to a Jewish family in Toronto, Hundert was one of the three sons of Charles and Norma Hundert and a third generation immigrant from Eastern Europe. His paternal grandparents arrived in Canada in the early 1910s from Obertyn and maternal grandparents from Łódź.

#2810

Scott Sowerby

#30492

Overall Influence

Scott Sowerby is a Canadian historian and Associate Professor in the Department of History, Northwestern University. He was awarded a PhD from Harvard University in 2006. His book Making Toleration: The Repealers and the Glorious Revolution was awarded the Royal Historical Society's The Whitfield Prize and was shortlisted for Phi Beta Kappa Society's Ralph Waldo Emerson Award. The book is about James II of England's allies in repealing penal laws against religious minorities , a group Sowerby labels the Repealers.

#2811

Frederic L. Holmes

#59467

Overall Influence

1932 - 2003 (71 years)

Frederic Lawrence Holmes was an American historian of science, specifically for chemistry, medicine and biology. Holmes earned his bachelor's degree in biology from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1954 and then began graduate study in the history department of Harvard University, where he graduated with MA in 1958. His graduate study was interrupted by two years of service in the United States Air Force and when he returned to Harvard he transferred to the department of the history of science, graduating with PhD in 1962 with thesis Claude Bernard and the concept of internal environment.

#2812

Robert Buzzanco

Robert Buzzanco

#64058

Overall Influence

Robert Buzzanco is a scholar of 20th century U.S. history and diplomatic history. He is also an author focusing on the Vietnam War and aligns with the "orthodox" historiographical school. Buzzanco received his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University and currently teaches at the University of Houston. Buzzanco has lectured at national conferences on the Second Gulf War, globalization and the influence of the industrial military complex. Among his many other professional activities, he has served as the Chair of the Stuart L. Bernath Lecture Prize Committee for Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations.

#2813

Gagik Sargsyan

#53098

Overall Influence

1926 - 1998 (72 years)

Gagik Sargsyan was an Armenian historian, who was the vice president of the Armenian Academy of Sciences. Biography Sarkisyan studied at Yerevan State University, then finished Leningrad State University in 1950. From 1954 to 1962, he worked at the Institute of History of the Armenian Academy of Sciences, and was deputy director of the Institute of History of the Armenian Academy of Sciences . He was the director of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Armenian Academy of Sciences and a professor at Yerevan State University. He was academic-secretary of the humanitarian branch of the Arme...

#2814

Philip Bonner

#35904

Overall Influence

1945 - 2017 (72 years)

Philip Lewis Bonner was a historian of South Africa. He was an Emeritus Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand with a focus on labour and urban history. Academic career Bonner was hired in 1971 in the history department of the University of the Witwatersrand to establish African history as a scholarly field. His early work was concerned with the Swazi Kingdom in the nineteenth century, and resulted in his first monograph, based on his doctoral thesis, published in 1983. In 1977, following the Soweto uprising, Bonner was involved in the founding of the History Workshop at the University of the Witwatersrand, and was its chair from 1987–2012.

#2815

Lisa Norling

#110064

Overall Influence

Lisa Norling is a U.S. historian noted for her pioneering work on gender and the sea. As such she is part of a new move in maritime historiography to examine gender, race and class in relation to seafaring labor, passengers and people in port cities .

#2816

Denis Buican

#17734

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (90 years)

Denis Buican is a Romanian-French scientist, bilingual writer, biologist, philosopher and a historian of science. He has studied genetics. Background His father Dumitru Peligrad a boyar and philanthropist was placed under house arrest after the invasion of Romania by the Red Army , but he refused to submit to regular police checks. Although belonging to a class deemed "unhealthy" by the then communist regime, the young researcher was a brilliant undergraduate at the University of Bucharest.

#2817

G. W. S. Barrow

#66920

Overall Influence

1924 - 2013 (89 years)

Geoffrey Wallis Steuart Barrow was an English historian and academic. The son of Charles Embleton Barrow and Marjorie née Stuart, Geoffrey Barrow was born on 28 November 1924, at Headingley near Leeds. He attended St Edward's School, Oxford, and Inverness Royal Academy, moving on to the University of St Andrews and Pembroke College, Oxford.

#2818

Patricia Fara

#59849

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Patricia Fara was a college lecturer in the history of science at Clare College,Cambridge. She is a graduate of the University of Oxford and did her PhD at the University of London. She is a former Fellow of Darwin College and is an Emerita Fellow of Clare College where she was previously Director of Studies in the History and Philosophy and Science. Fara was also a College Teaching Officer in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. From 2016 to 2018 Fara was President of the British Society for the History of Science. In 2016 she became President of the Antiquarian Horological Society.

#2819

Arie van Deursen

#39878

Overall Influence

1931 - 2011 (80 years)

Arie Theodorus van Deursen was a Dutch historian whose focus was the early modern period. He was Professor Emeritus of History at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. He was a specialist in Dutch history of the 16th and 17th century.

#2820

Leonard van der Kuijp

#34317

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Leonard W.J. van der Kuijp is a Dutch professor of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies and former chair of the Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies at Harvard University. Leonard van der Kuijp began his studies in mathematics, but then shifted his attention to Tibet. He received his master's degree at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Canada, and his doctorate at the University of Hamburg in Germany.

#2821

James Franklin

#6424

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

James Franklin is an Australian philosopher, mathematician and historian of ideas. Life and career Franklin was educated at St. Joseph's College, Hunters Hill, New South Wales. His undergraduate work was at the University of Sydney , where he attended St John's College and he was influenced by philosophers David Stove and David Armstrong. He completed his PhD in 1981 at the University of Warwick, on algebraic groups. Since 1981 he has taught in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of New South Wales.

#2822

Paul Boyer

#54738

Overall Influence

1935 - 2012 (77 years)

Paul Samuel Boyer was a U.S. cultural and intellectual historian and Merle Curti Professor of History Emeritus and former director of the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He had held visiting professorships at UCLA, Northwestern University, and William & Mary; had received Guggenheim Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation Fellowships; and was an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Society of American Historians, and the American Antiquarian Society.

#2823

Richard Miles

#95250

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Richard Miles is a British historian and archaeologist, best known for presenting two major historical documentary series: BBC2's Ancient Worlds , which presented a comprehensive overview of classical history and the dawn of civilisation, and BBC Four's Archaeology: A Secret History .

#2824

Günther Franz

#47274

Overall Influence

1902 - 1992 (90 years)

Günther Franz was a German historian who specialized predominantly in agricultural history and the history of the German Peasants' War. Together with economists Wilhelm Abel and Friedrich Lütge, Franz helped shape the development and study of German agricultural history and agricultural economics in the postwar period.

#2825

Susan Lee Johnson

#50258

Overall Influence

Susan Lee Johnson is an American historian. Life In 1978 Johnson received a B.A. in history from Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and in 1984 an M.A. at Arizona State University, and in 1993 a Ph.D. from Yale University. Johnson currently holds the Harry Reid Endowed Chair for the History of the Intermountain West at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and is an emeritus professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, WI.

#2826

Barbara Weinstein

#74729

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Barbara Weinstein is a professor of Latin American and Caribbean history at New York University. Her research interests include race, gender, labor, and political economy, especially in relation to the making of modern Brazil.

#2827

Joan Waugh

#96262

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Joan Waugh is an American historian and academic on the faculty at University of California, Los Angeles. She specializes in 19th-century American history and is an expert on the American Civil War, the aftermath, and the Gilded Age.

#2828

Franz Bosbach

#111489

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Franz Bosbach is a German historian and university professor. Life Bosbach was born in Bornheim, a small town situated on the left bank of the Rhine, between Cologne and Bonn. He received his doctorate from Bonn University in 1981 for a piece of analytical research on the longer lasting effects of the 1648 Peace of Westphalia. His habilitation , also from Bonn followed in 1986, this time for a piece of work entitled "Monarchia Universalis. Ein politischer Leitbegriff der frühen Neuzeit" . Between 1987 and 1989 he was supported by a bursary from the German Research Foundation's Heisenberg...

#2829

Notker Hammerstein

#65108

Overall Influence

1930 - Present (94 years)

Notker Hammerstein is a German historian. His research interests are mainly in the field of and history of science as well as the history of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. Life Born in Offenbach am Main, Hammerstein is the son of the elementary school teacher August Hammerstein . He attended the Heinrich-von-Gagern-Gymnasium in Frankfurt and passed his Abitur there in 1949. He then studied economics and philosophy, later history, philosophy and English literature at the Goethe University Frankfurt and the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. In 1956 he was appointed a Doctor ...

#2830

R. J. B. Knight

#66276

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

For the English cricketer, administrator, and schoolmaster, see Roger Knight Roger John Beckett Knight is a British naval historian of the 18th century, a former Deputy Director of the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich, and author of a biography of Admiral Lord Nelson.

#2831

Martin Daunton

#68701

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Martin James Daunton DLitt LittD FLSW is a British academic and historian. He was Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, between 2004 and 2014. Daunton is the son of Ronald James Daunton and Dorothy née Bellett. He was educated at Barry Grammar School before going to the University of Nottingham where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1970. He studied further at the University of Kent and received the degree of LittD from the University of Cambridge in 2005.

#2832

Philip S. Khoury

#30584

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Philip S. Khoury is Ford International Professor of History and Vice Provost at MIT. He is also Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the American University of Beirut. Life Khoury was born on October 15, 1949, in Washington, D.C. the son of Shukry E. Khoury, a naturalized American lawyer, and Angela Jurdak Khoury, a Lebanese diplomat and educator. He was educated at the Sidwell Friends School in Washington and then at the American University of Beirut, Trinity College , and Harvard University . In 1981, he joined MIT as an assistant professor of history, rising to the rank of professor.

#2833

Bryan Ranft

#64906

Overall Influence

1917 - 2001 (84 years)

Bryan Ranft was a historian of the Royal Navy, who served as Professor of History and International Affairs at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, 1967–1977. Early life and education Ranft was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Balliol College, Oxford. During World War II, he joined the Royal Artillery, rising to the rank of major. Well along in his career, Ranft completed his D.Phil. degree in history at Oxford University in 1967 with a thesis on The naval defence of British sea-borne trade, 1860–1905.

#2834

Kristin L. Hoganson

#105713

Overall Influence

Kristin L. Hoganson is an American historian specializing in the history of the United States. She teaches at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. Early life Hoganson was educated at Yale University receiving her B.A. in 1987 and Ph.D. In 1995.

#2835

Howard P. Segal

#110363

Overall Influence

1948 - 2020 (72 years)

Howard Paul Segal was an American historian who was a professor of history at the University of Maine. Specializing in the history of American technology and American utopianism, he wrote well over 200 articles and authored or edited eight books including Technology and Utopia, Technology, Pessimism, and Post-Modernism ; Future Imperfect: The Mixed Blessings of Technology in America; Utopias: A Brief History;Technology in America ; Technological Utopianism in American Culture; and Recasting the Machine Age.

#2836

Gao Hua

#91202

Overall Influence

1954 - 2011 (57 years)

Gao Hua was a history professor at Nanjing University. He was known for his research into the Chinese Communist Party 's history, notably his book How the Red Sun Rose. Early life In 1954, Gao Hua was born in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China. Both of his parents were not intellectuals. Gao Hua's father, Gao Qifa, came from a poor family and started working as a child laborer in an electroplating factory at a young age. With the support of his uncle, Gao Qifa managed to complete junior high school and later joined the underground CCP. In 1949, he served as an acting section chief in the Nanjin...

#2837

Jon Bridgman

#88698

Overall Influence

1930 - 2015 (85 years)

Jon M. Bridgman was an American historian and a professor emeritus of the University of Washington. Bridgman, a graduate of Stanford University, and former USN gunnery officer on a destroyer, received his doctorate from Stanford University in 1961 and spent his entire teaching career at the University of Washington. His particular area of expertise was modern European history. He was the recipient of the university's Distinguished Teaching Award in 1973. His popularity as a speaker earned him a position lecturing to the annual meeting of the UW Alumni Association from 1987 to 2002, and the ...

#2838

Stephen Baskerville

#21380

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Stephen K. Baskerville is an American scholar of political science. He is described by Paul Craig Roberts as a leading authority on divorce, child custody and the family court system. Education and employment Baskerville holds a BA in International Relations from American University as well as a PhD in Political Science and History from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

#2839

Deborah Valenze

#69626

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Deborah M. Valenze is an American historian who is the Ann Whitney Olin Professor at Barnard College in New York. She has written a number of books with subjects including early British women preachers and the global history of milk.

#2840

Jörg Jarnut

#94111

Overall Influence

1942 - 2023 (81 years)

Jörg Jarnut was a German historian who was Chair of Medieval History at the University of Paderborn from 1983 to 2007. Biography Jörg Jarnut was born in Weimar, Germany on 1 March 1942. He gained his PhD at the University of Bonn under the supervision of Eugen Ewig in 1970 with a dissertation on the prosopography of the Kingdom of the Lombards. He gained his habilitation under Ewig in 1977 with a thesis on the history of Bergamo. Since 1980, Jarnut was an associate professor at the University of Bonn. From 1983 to 2007, Jarnut was Chair of Medieval History at the Paderborn University. Jarnut ...

#2841

Davis Bitton

#83934

Overall Influence

1930 - 2007 (77 years)

Ronald Davis Bitton was a charter member and president of the Mormon History Association, professor of history at the University of Utah, and official Assistant Church Historian in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints working with Leonard J. Arrington.

#2842

Watson Parker

#95025

Overall Influence

1924 - 2013 (89 years)

Watson Parker was an American historian, author and academic. Parker, a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh, specialized in the history of the Black Hills of South Dakota and eastern Wyoming. He was inducted into the South Dakota Hall of Fame in 2011 for his work.

#2843

Hovann Simonian

#67779

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Hovann Simonian is an Armenian Swiss scholar in Armenian history, historical geography and culture. Born in Beirut to Armenian parents, he was raised in Switzerland where his family moved at the beginning of the Civil War in Lebanon in 1975.

#2844

Patrice Brun

#75307

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Patrice Brun, is a French historian, a specialist of ancient Greece and epigraphy. His research focuses on the history of classical and Hellenistic Greece. He was president of the Bordeaux Montaigne University between 2009 and 2012.

#2845

Julie Livingston

#47094

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Julie Livingston is an American medical historian and the Julius Silver Professor at New York University. She won a 2013 MacArthur Fellowship. Life Livingston received her B.A. in Comparative Religion from Tufts University. She graduated from Boston University with an M.A. in African History, M.P.H. in Health Services and a Certificate of Public Health in Developing Countries, and from Emory University with a Ph.D. in African History. She taught at Rutgers University from 2003 to 2015.

#2846

Hugh M. Cole

#51420

Overall Influence

1910 - 2005 (95 years)

Hugh Marshall Cole was an American historian and army officer, best known as the author of The Lorraine Campaign and The Ardennes: Battle of the Bulge, two volumes of the U.S. Army official history of World War II.

#2847

David Engel

#38730

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

David Engel is an American historian and Professor of Holocaust and Judaic Studies at New York University. Engel received his Ph.D. from the University of California in Los Angeles in 1979, and completed postdoctoral study at Hebrew University's Division of Holocaust Studies, Institute for Contemporary Jewry in Jerusalem.

#2848

Benet Salway

#62590

Overall Influence

Richard William Benet Salway is a senior lecturer in ancient history at University College London. His areas of speciality include Greek and Roman epigraphy and onomastics, Roman law, Roman Imperial history and travel and geography in the Graeco-Roman world.

#2849

Suzannah Lipscomb

Suzannah Lipscomb

#74308

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (46 years)

#2850

Leonhard Harding

#28545

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (88 years)

Leonhard Harding is a German historian and scholar in African studies. Biography Leonhard Harding attended elementary school in Paderborn for four years. From 1948 to 1956 he attended high schools in Rietberg and Großkrotzenburg. In 1956 the matriculation examination followed. He studied philosophy for four semesters at the philosophical college of the White Fathers in Trier. From 1959 to 1963 he studied Catholic theology and history of missions in Leuven. In 1963 he began studying history at the Saarland University. In 1965 he passed the secondary school teacher examination for history. Then he went to Cologne.

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