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Featured Article:  Heinrich von Treitschke

Treitschke, Heinrich von (1834–1896), a German historian. He was a fervent and articulate advocate of German nationalism, imperialism, and unification under Prussian leadership. See more »

Adolphe Thiers

Thiers, (Louis) Adolphe (1797–1877), a French statesman and historian. For many years a notable figure in French politics, he helped start the Revolution of 1830 (in which Charles X was dethroned) and headed the government following the revolution against Napoleon III in 1870.

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Alcuin

Alcuin, (735-804), an English theologian, philosopher, and scholar. As adviser to the Frankish king Charlemagne on educational, cultural, and church affairs, he helped to bring about a revival of learning in Europe.

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Alphonse de Lamartine

Lamartine, Alphonse de (1790–1869), a French poet and statesman. His Poetic Meditations (1820) is often credited with beginning the Romantic movement in French poetry.

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Arnold J. Toynbee

Toynbee, Arnold J. (Joseph) (1889–1975), a British historian and philosopher of history.

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Baron Acton

Acton, Baron, John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, First Baron Acton of Aldenham (1834–1902), an English historian.

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Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu

Montesquieu, Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de la Brède et de (1689–1755), a French political philosopher.

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Barthold G. Niebuhr

Niebuhr, Barthold Georg (1776-1831), a German historian and author of History of Rome. He also discovered and helped to decipher fragments from the writings of Cicero, Livy, and other classical authors.

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Earl of Clarendon

Clarendon, Edward Hyde, First Earl of (1609–1674), an English statesman and historian.

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Edward Gibbon

Gibbon, Edward (1737–1794), an English historian. Gibbon's six-volume The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776–88) was immediately recognized as a masterpiece because of its scholarship and high literary quality.

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Einhard

Einhard or Eginhard (770?–840), the biographer of Charlemagne. His brief Life of Charlemagne, written before 821, and his Letters are important sources for the history of the time.

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Ernest Renan

Renan, (Joseph) Ernest (1823–1892), a French philosopher, historian, and philologist.

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Eusebius of Caesarea

Eusebius of Caesarea, (260?–340?), a Christian scholar and writer, called “the Father of Church History.” He became bishop of Caesarea in Palestine about 315 and was a leader in the First Council of Nicaea (325).

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Geoffrey of Monmouth

Geoffrey of Monmouth m$on'-m ŭ th (1100?–1154), an English writer and historian.

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Giorgio Vasari

Vasari, Giorgio (1511–1574), an Italian painter, author, and architect. His Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Architects, Painters and Sculptors from Cimabue to the Present Time (1550, revised and enlarged 1568) laid a foundation for later writers on the history of Italian Renaissance art.

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Heinrich von Treitschke

Treitschke, Heinrich von (1834–1896), a German historian. He was a fervent and articulate advocate of German nationalism, imperialism, and unification under Prussian leadership.

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Hugo Grotius

Grotius, Hugo, the Latinized name of Huig de Groot (1583–1645), a Dutch jurist and statesman.

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Jacob Christoph Burckhardt

Burckhardt, Jacob Christoph (1818–1897), a Swiss historian. He was one of the founders of cultural history.

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Jacques Benigne Bossuet

Bossuet, Jacques Benigne (1627–1704), a Roman Catholic theologian and bishop of Meaux, France.

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James A. Froude

Froude, James Anthony (1818–1894), an English historian. His History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada (12 volumes, 1856–70) is notable for its literary style, but Froude sometimes made careless use of source material.

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Jean Froissart

Froissart, Jean (1333?–1400?), a French historian and poet. In Chronicles of France, England, Scotland, and Spain he gives a colorful but not entirely reliable account of events from 1326 to 1400, including the first part of the Hundred Years' War.

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