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List of the most influential people in History,

#3301

Adrian Johns

#54354

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (60 years)

Adrian Dominic Sinclair Johns is a British-born academic. He earned a doctorate from the University of Cambridge in 1992. He joined the University of Chicago faculty in 2001, and was appointed the Allan Grant Maclear Professor of History. He was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship in 2012.

#3302

Andrzej Kunert

#124359

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (73 years)

Andrzej Krzysztof Kunert is a Polish historian and lecturer, specializing in the history of Polish resistance movement in World War II. Since April 2010 he is the secretary general of the Council for the Protection of Struggle and Martyrdom Sites.

#3303

Armen Ayvazyan

#76160

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (61 years)

Armen Ayvazyan is an Armenian historian and political scientist. Ayvazyan is the director of the Ararat Center for Strategic Research and senior researcher in the Matenadaran, the Yerevan Institute of Medieval Manuscripts. He holds doctoral degrees in history and political science .

#3304

Pavel Volobuev

#125313

Overall Influence

1923 - 1997 (74 years)

Pavel Vasilʹevich Volobuev was an Azerbaijani historian who published the multi-volume History of the USSR in 1966. He was appointed director of the Institute of the History of the USSR of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union in 1969.

#3305

Sergio Bagú

#46414

Overall Influence

1911 - 2002 (91 years)

Sergio Bagú was an Argentinian Marxist historian, sociologist and political philosopher. Bagú, who was born in Buenos Aires, was a lecturer at the University of Illinois, Middlebury College and the University of Buenos Aires. As a university professor, he was exiled by the military junta in Argentina following the 1966 Argentine Revolution. He died in Mexico City.

#3306

Mathilde Larrère

#68590

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (55 years)

Mathilde Larrère, born in Paris is a French historian. She is a specialist in revolutionary movements and policing in 19th century France. Biography Background and training She is the daughter of Raphaël Larrère, an agricultural engineer, and Catherine Larrère, a philosopher. Mathilde Larrère is a former student of the . She won the agrégation d'histoire in 1994. She was awarded a PhD in history on defending her thesis, "The Paris National Guard under the July Monarchy, power at the end of the rifle?", completed under the direction of Alain Corbin. She has also taken courses as an auditor ...

#3307

Mrinalini Sinha

#96186

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (65 years)

Mrinalini Sinha is the Alice Freeman Palmer Professor in the Department of History and Professor in the Departments of English and Women's Studies of the University of Michigan. She writes on various aspects of the political history of colonial India, with a focus on anti-colonialism and on gender. She was the president of the Association for Asian Studies, 2014–2015. She is the recipient of the 2012 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. She has served, and continues to serve, on the editorial board of several academic journals, including the American Historical Review, Past ...

#3308

Joshua Freeman

#84203

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (76 years)

Joshua B. Freeman is an author and professor of history at Queens College, City University of New York and the CUNY Graduate Center. He is the former executive officer of the Graduate Center's history department.

#3309

Olaf H. Olsen

#98492

Overall Influence

1928 - 2015 (87 years)

Olaf Heymann Olsen was a Danish historian and archaeologist. He is known to have primarily worked in medieval and Viking Age archaeology. Olaf Olsen was born in Copenhagen. He was the son of Albert Olsen and Agnete E. Bing . He became a student in 1946, earned MSc. in history and geography in 1953. In 1966, he received a degree in philosophy at the University of Copenhagen. Olaf Olsen became an assistant at the National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen in 1950. He became museum superintendent at the National Museum in 1958. He was appointed as a professor of medieval archaeology at Aarhus University in 1971.

#3310

Gerard Libaridian

#59161

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (80 years)

Gerard Jirair Libaridian is an Armenian American historian and politician. Biography From 1991 to 1997, he served as adviser, and then senior adviser to the former President of Armenia, Levon Ter-Petrosyan, and was closely involved in the Karabakh negotiations. In 2007, Libaridian was appointed the Director of Armenian Studies Program at the University of Michigan. He holds the Alex Manoogian Chair in Modern Armenian History at the University of Michigan. He has provided occasional commentary on relations between Armenia, Azerbaijan and Turkey, including on the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war. In 2...

#3311

Madhavi Kale

#52136

Overall Influence

Madhavi Kale is professor of history of Bryn Mawr College and associate professor at the University of Toronto Scarborough. Kale received her BA from Yale University and her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania.

#3312

Shuichi Toyama

#76183

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (71 years)

is a Japanese archaeologist and historian, Professor in the Faculty of Letters at Kogakkan University. He specializes in archaeological geography, environment archeology, geomorphology, and the history of geography, and is an expert in ancient Japanese farming practices and the history of the Yamanashi Prefecture. He has conducted much research into rice cultivation in ancient Japan in particular, which has been quoted in numerous publications. In his work related to the environment and archaeology, he has examined the relationship history between nature and human beings, which was the subject of a 2008 book.

#3313

Richard Trexler

#94827

Overall Influence

1932 - 2007 (75 years)

Richard Trexler was a professor of History at Binghamton University, State University of New York. A specialist of the Renaissance, Reformation of Italy, and Behaviorist History, Trexler had over fifty published works. He was best known for revolutionizing the field of public life as historically significant. To celebrate his career and retirement, Binghamton University on April 14, 2004, had a symposium in his honor where renowned scholars in Early Modern Europe spoke on his behalf.

#3314

Annie Lacroix-Riz

Annie Lacroix-Riz

#90274

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (78 years)

Annie Lacroix-Riz is a French historian, professor emeritus of modern history at the university Paris VII - Denis Diderot, specialist in the international relations in first half of the 20th century and collaboration.

#3315

Thaddeus Gromada

#93402

Overall Influence

1929 - Present (96 years)

Thaddeus Vladimir Gromada is a Polish-American historian. He is a professor emeritus of European history at the New Jersey City University, a former executive director and president of the Polish Institute of Arts & Sciences of America and the Polish American Historical Association and a trustee and vice chair of The Kosciuszko Foundation. His scholarly interests are focused on areas such as Polish and Polish-American 20th-century history. Gromada received a B.S. from Seton Hall University in 1951, before then studying at Fordham University, where he received both the M.A. and Ph.D. . At Fordham, he studied under Oskar Halecki.

#3316

Ron Esplin

#111558

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (81 years)

Ronald Kent Esplin is the managing editor of The Joseph Smith Papers project and the former director of the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History at Brigham Young University .

#3317

Serge Lancel

#55360

Overall Influence

1928 - 2005 (77 years)

Serge Lancel was a French archaeologist, historian and philologist. Publications Tipasa de Maurétanie, éd. Ministère de l'Éducation nationale, Algiers, 1966Verrerie antique de Tipasa, éd. De Bocard, Paris, 1967Actes de la conférence de Carthage en 411, 4 tomes, coll. Sources chrétiennes, éd. du Cerf, Paris, 1972-1991[sous la dir.] Byrsa I. Mission archéologique française à Carthage, éd. INAA, Tunis / éd. École française de Rome, Rome, 1979[sous la dir.] Byrsa II. Mission archéologique française à Carthage, éd. INAA, Tunis / éd. École française de Rome, Rome, 1982 Introduction à la connaissance de Carthage.

#3318

Mark M. Smith

#86402

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (57 years)

Mark M. Smith is an American historian and the Carolina Distinguished Professor of History at the University of South Carolina. Smith holds a B.A. University of Southampton & M.A. University of South Carolina and a Ph.D. University of South Carolina . Smith is a scholar of sensory history, which he described to an interviewer as stressing “the role of the senses—including sight and vision—in shaping people's experiences in the past and shows how they understood their worlds and why.”

#3319

Ann Taylor Allen

#96974

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (81 years)

Ann Taylor Allen is a professor of German history at the University of Louisville. Allen is the author of four books and more than twenty articles/reviews in peer-reviewed journals. She has a BA from Bryn Mawr College , studied at the University of Hamburg, Germany with a Fulbright Fellowship, received an MA in 1967 from Harvard University and earned a PhD from Columbia University in 1974.

#3320

Keith Wrightson

#95137

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (77 years)

Keith Edwin Wrightson, is a British historian who specialises in early modern England. Early life and education Wrightson was born on 22 March 1948 in Croxdale, County Durham, England. He was educated at Dame Allan's School, an all-boys private school in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. He studied history at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1970 and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1974. His doctoral thesis was titled "The Puritan reformation of manners, with special reference to the counties of Lancashire and Essex, 1640-1660".

#3321

Lene Rubinstein

#73454

Overall Influence

Lene Rubinstein is Professor of Ancient History at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her research centres on Greek history, especially Ancient Greek law and Greek inscriptions, as well as the Attic orators and oratory generally.

#3322

Barbara Stambolis

#104953

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (73 years)

Barbara Stambolis is a German historian and university lecturer. From 1971, Stambolis studied history and German studies at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität and the Ruhr University Bochum. She received her doctorate in 1982 with Hans Mommsen as Doctor of Philosophy. Habilitated Privatdozent since 1999, in 2006, she was appointed associate professor for new and modern history by the Paderborn University.

#3323

Annping Chin

#79447

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Annping Chin is an American historian and sinologist. She is a senior lecturer of history at Yale. Her fields of study include Confucianism, Taoism, and the Chinese intellectual tradition. Before Yale, she was on the faculty at Wesleyan University.

#3324

Meilė Lukšienė

#47448

Overall Influence

1913 - 2009 (96 years)

Meilutė Julija Lukšienė Matjošaitytė was a Lithuanian university professor, cultural historian, and activist. Educated at Vytautas Magnus University, Lukšienė became a professor of literature in 1944. In 1955, she defended her thesis on the works of Jonas Biliūnas to became the Candidate of Sciences. She headed the Lithuanian Literature Department of Vilnius University in 1951–1958. Due to tightening Soviet censorship after the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, the department was attacked for not devoting enough attention to communist literature and Lukšienė was dismissed from the university in early 1959.

#3325

Helen Verran

#28712

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (80 years)

Helen Verran is an Australian historian and empirical philosopher of science, primarily working in the Social Studies of Science and Technology , and currently Adjunct Professor at Charles Darwin University.

#3326

Richard Shannon

#69586

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (94 years)

Richard Thomas Shannon was an historian best known for his two-volume biography of William Ewart Gladstone. He was appointed Professor of Modern History at the University College Swansea, University of Wales in 1979.

#3327

Ephraim Kanarfogel

#66556

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (70 years)

Ephraim Kanarfogel is a professor and dean at Yeshiva University and one of the foremost experts in the fields of medieval Jewish history and rabbinic literature, as well as an ordained rabbi and Torah scholar.

#3328

Edward P. Alexander

#85453

Overall Influence

1907 - 2003 (96 years)

Edward Porter Alexander was an American historian, museum administrator, educator and writer. He served for nearly 30 years as vice-president for interpretation at Colonial Williamsburg and founded the Museum Studies program at the University of Delaware, which he directed for its first six years.

#3329

William P. Gerberding

#36612

Overall Influence

1929 - 2014 (85 years)

William Passavant Gerberding was an American educator. He served as president of the University of Washington, and as Chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Biography Gerberding was born in Fargo, North Dakota. He was the youngest of four children born to Lutheran minister William Gerberding and his wife Esther Habighorst. He received his BA from Macalester College in 1951, and went on to earn an MA in 1956 and a Ph.D. in 1959 from the University of Chicago.

#3330

Roy Liuzza

#49272

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (67 years)

Roy Liuzza is an American scholar of Old English literature. A professor at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Liuzza is the former editor of the Old English Newsletter. He has published a translation of Beowulf which was well-received and praised for its readability and correspondence with the original, besides scholarly monographs and articles, including many on translating and dating Beowulf.

#3331

John Shearman

#58223

Overall Influence

1931 - 2003 (72 years)

John Kinder Gowran Shearman was an English art historian who also taught in America. He was a specialist in Italian Renaissance painting, described by his colleague James S. Ackerman as "the leading scholar of Italian Renaissance painting", who published several influential works, but whose expected major book on Quattrocento painting, for the Penguin/Yale History of Art series , never appeared. However, what is widely acknowledged as his most influential book, on the concept of Mannerism, published in 1967, is still in print.

#3332

Ronald J. Mellor

#80063

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (85 years)

Ronald J. Mellor is a distinguished professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles. His area of research has been ancient religion and Roman historiography, where he has published a number of books.

#3333

Iris Engstrand

#98114

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (90 years)

Iris Higbie Wilson Engstrand is a retired American academic. She was professor of history at University of San Diego from 1968 until 2017; she joined the faculty of the San Diego College for Men before it and other colleges joined to form the university in 1972. She specialized in the history of California and Spanish exploration during the 1700s, and as of 2017 had written about twenty books on those subjects.

#3334

Edward Stewart Kennedy

#41437

Overall Influence

1912 - 2009 (97 years)

Edward Stewart Kennedy was a historian of science specializing in medieval Islamic astronomical tabless written in Persian and Arabic. Edward S. Kennedy studied electrical engineering at Lafayette College, graduating in 1932. He then traveled to Iran to teach at Alborz College, at that time directed by the American Presbyterian Mission. In the Persian language environment, Kennedy made a study of Persian and became fluent in the language. After four years he returned to Pennsylvania and took up study of series of exponential form related to Lambert series while at Lehigh University. He graduated Ph.D.

#3335

Kathleen L. Lodwick

#98125

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (81 years)

Kathleen L. Lodwick was an American educator and historian of missions to China. Biography Lodwick holds a Ph.D. in Chinese history from the University of Arizona and is a professor of history at Pennsylvania State University at the Lehigh Valley Campus of Penn State Berks-Lehigh Valley College, teaching courses on traditional, modern, and twentieth-century China. Her grandfather, Edward Stephen Worthington, was a direct descendant of Kentucky frontiersman Edward Worthington.

#3336

Ljubo Boban

#53647

Overall Influence

1933 - 1994 (61 years)

Ljubo Boban was a Croatian historian and academic. He was born in Solin. At the University of Zagreb's Faculty of Philosophy, he graduated and later obtained a PhD degree in 1964 with a thesis on the 1939 Cvetković–Maček Agreement. He became professor at the same faculty in 1975. In 1986 he became full member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts and in 1991 he was made member of its presidency.

#3337

Horst Lademacher

Horst Lademacher

#102397

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (94 years)

Horst Lademacher is a German historian specializing in the history of the Netherlands. He was a professor of modern history at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, University of Kassel and the University of Münster. At the latter institute he was also director of the Zentrum für Niederlande-Studien from 1990 to 2000.

#3338

Anna Żarnowska

#87986

Overall Influence

1931 - 2007 (76 years)

Anna Maria Żarnowska was a Polish historian and researcher of the Polish labour movement and women's history at the University of Warsaw. She was invested with the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polish Revival in 2003.

#3339

Martin Lynn

#127469

Overall Influence

1931 - 2005 (74 years)

Martin Lynn was a British and Nigerian historian and academic, specialising in African History. Having taught at the University of Ilorin, he was Professor of African History at Queen's University Belfast. He was the first person to hold a professorship in African history in Ireland.

#3340

Daniel Reynaud

#12940

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (67 years)

Daniel Reynaud is an Australian historian whose work on Australian war cinema and on Australian World War I soldiers and religion has challenged aspects of the Anzac legend, Australia’s most important national mythology built around the role of Australian servicemen, popularly known as Anzacs

#3341

Derek Beales

#67770

Overall Influence

1931 - 2023 (92 years)

Derek Edward Dawson Beales, FBA was a British historian. He wrote the definitive work on the Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II. Born in Felixstowe, he was educated at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he gained a BA in 1953, an MA and a PhD in 1957. He was appointed a Fellow of Sidney Sussex in 1955 and a University Lecturer in History in 1965, which he held until 1980. He was then Professor of Modern History at Cambridge until 1997.

#3342

James Chapman

#69483

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (57 years)

James Chapman is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Leicester. He has written several books on the history of British popular culture, including work on cinema, television and comics. Biography James Chapman was born in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, and attended Wales High School during the 1980s. He took his BA and MA at the University of East Anglia and then undertook his doctoral research at Lancaster University, completing his thesis on the role of official film propaganda in Britain during the Second World War.

#3343

Henry Laurens

#59409

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (71 years)

Henry Laurens is a French historian and author of several histories and studies about the Arab-Muslim world. He is Professor and Chair of History of the Contemporary Arab world at the Collège de France, Paris.

#3344

Magnus Brechtken

#58776

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (61 years)

Magnus Brechtken is a German historian. He is the deputy director of the Institute of Contemporary History in Munich and teaches at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. In 2017 he wrote a biographical study of Albert Speer which won the 2017 NDR Culture Award for Non-fiction.

#3345

Reza Afshari

#71904

Overall Influence

Reza Afshari is professor of history at Pace University. He received his Ph.D. at Temple University. His studies center on human rights in Iran, Islamic politics, and Islamic cultural relativism in particular.

#3346

Piero Gleijeses

#33584

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (81 years)

Piero Gleijeses is a professor of United States foreign policy at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. He is best known for his scholarly studies of Cuban foreign policy under Fidel Castro, which earned him a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005, and has also published several works on US intervention in Latin America. He is the only foreign scholar to have been allowed access to the Cuba's Castro-era government archives.

#3347

Päiviö Tommila

#47524

Overall Influence

1931 - 2022 (91 years)

Juhani Päiviö Tommila was a Finnish historian and professor at Helsinki University. Career Tommila was born in Jyväskylä on 4 August 1931. He became a PhD in 1962 with his dissertation La Finlande dans la politique européenne en 1809–1815. He was assistant at the university of Helsinki 1959-65 and associate professor 1962–67. Tommila was professor in Finland's history at the University of Turku 1965-76 and professor in Finland's history at Helsinki University 1976–94. He served as rector of the University of Helsinki from 1988 to 1992.

#3348

Jerome Ch'en

#71425

Overall Influence

1921 - 2019 (98 years)

Jerome Ch'en was a Chinese-Canadian historian. Early life and education Ch'en was born as Ch'en Chih-jang in Chengdu, Sichuan, Republic of China in October 1919. He was educated at Tianjin Nankai University, National Southwestern Associated University in Kunming during the Anti-Japanese War and at the London School of Economics , which he attended funded by a Boxer Indemnity Scholarship and where he studied under Friedrich Hayek.

#3349

William Urban

#95733

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (86 years)

William Urban is an American historian specializing in the Baltic Crusades and Teutonic knights. He is the Lee L. Morgan Professor of History and International studies at Monmouth College. He served as an editor for the Journal of Baltic Studies from 1990 to 1994.

#3350

Dror Ze'evi

#70963

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (72 years)

Dror Ze'evi is an Israeli historian who studies political, social and cultural history of the Ottoman Empire, Turkey and the Levant. Ze'evi's father, , was deputy head of Mossad, and his mother, Galila, is an interior designer. Ze'evi grew up in different cities around Israel and the world, including several years in France and Britain. He served as an intelligence officer in the IDF until 1983, and was awarded the rank of Lt. Col. during his reserve service.

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