Biography of famous historians in the world
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The Historians' Historians
As our sextionde anniversary year nears its conclusion we asked distinguished historians to choose their favourite works of history produced in the gods 60 years and to name the most important historian of the period. Their replies are fascinating, revealing a discipline in rude health, of great breadth and prodigious achievement.
Lucy Delap
I would suggest Quentin Skinner as the most important historian, someone who has transformed his field, methodologically and substantively, and had an enormous impact in publishing and supporting more junior scholars. He is an enormously generous and charismatic teacher who has contributed to all levels of the academy.
As for the most important history book – inom would hesitate to name a single work, but would prefer to nominate a journal, History Workshop, for its contribution to the creation and ongoing development of many fields, but particularly of social history, women’s and gender history and its engage
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List of historians
This is a list of historians, but only for those with a biographical entry in Wikipedia. Major chroniclers and annalists are included and names are listed by the person's historical period. The entries continue with the specializations, not nationality.[1]
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.
Antiquity
[edit]Greco-Roman world
[edit]Further information: List of Greek historiographers, Greek historiography, and Roman historiography
Classical period
[edit]Hellenistic period
[edit]- Ephorus of Cyme (c. 400–330 BCE), Greek history
- Theopompus (c. 380 – c. 315 BCE), Greek history
- Eudemus of Rhodes (c. 370 – c. 300 BCE), Greek historian of science
- Ptolemy I Soter (367 – c. 283 BCE), general of Alexander the Great, founder of the Ptolemaic dynasty
- Duris of Samos (c. 350 – post-281 BCE), Greek history
- Berossus (early 3rd ce
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List of historians by area of study
This is a list of historians categorized by their area of study. See also List of historians and List of women historians by area of study.
By time period
[edit]Ancient history
[edit]- Sedat Alp (1913, Veroia, The Ottoman Empire - 2006, Ankara, Türkiye) Hittitolog- Historian, Ancient Anatolian
- Ekrem Akurgal (1911, Haifa, The Ottoman Empire- 2002, İzmir, Türkiye) Archaeologist- Historian, Ancient Anatolian
- Leonie Archer (born 1955) – Graeco-Roman Palestine
- Mary Beard (born 1955)
- Anatoly Bokschanin (1903–1979) – Roman history
- Fernand Braudel (1902, Luméville-en-Ornois, France - 1985, Cluses, France ) Roman history
- Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton (1900–1993) – Roman history and prosopography
- Halet Çambel (1916, Berlin, Germany- 2014, İstanbul, Türkiye) Archaeologist- Historian, Ancient Anatolian
- Michael Crawford (born 1939)
- Roland Étienne (born 1944, French) – Ancient Greece and Hellenistic period
- Moses Finley (1912–1986)
- Edwa