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Featured Article: 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. 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, (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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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.
See more »Arnold J. Toynbee
Toynbee, Arnold J. (Joseph) (1889 - 1975), a British historian and philosopher of history.
See more »Baron Acton
Acton, Baron, John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, First Baron Acton of Aldenham (1834 - 1902), an English historian.
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Montesquieu, Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de la Brède et de (1689 - 1755), a French political philosopher.
See more »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.
See more »Earl of Clarendon
Clarendon, Edward Hyde, First Earl of (1609 - 1674), an English statesman and historian.
See more »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 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.
See more »Ernest Renan
Renan, (Joseph) Ernest (1823 - 1892), a French philosopher, historian, and philologist.
See more »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 mon'-m ? th (1100 - 1154), an English writer and historian.
See more »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.
See more »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 »Hugo Grotius
Grotius, Hugo, the Latinized name of Huig de Groot (1583 - 1645), a Dutch jurist and statesman.
See more »Jacob Christoph Burckhardt
Burckhardt, Jacob Christoph (1818 - 1897), a Swiss historian. He was one of the founders of cultural history.
See more »Jacques Benigne Bossuet
Bossuet, Jacques Benigne (1627 - 1704), a Roman Catholic theologian and bishop of Meaux, France.
See more »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.
See more »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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