List of historians

This is a list of historians.

The names are grouped by order of the historical period in which they were living and producing works, which is not necessarily the same as the period in which they specialize.[1]

Antiquity

Greco-Roman world

Classical period
  • Herodotus (484 BC–c. 420 BC), Halicarnassus, wrote the Histories that established Western historiography
  • Thucydides (460 BC–c. 400 BC), Peloponnesian War
  • Xenophon (431 BC–c. 360 BC), Athenian knight and student of Socrates
  • Ctesias (early 4th century BC), Greek historian of Assyrian, Persian, and Indian history
Hellenistic period
Roman Empire

China

Middle Ages

Byzantine sphere

Latin sphere

Early Middle Ages
High Middle Ages
fl. 10th century
fl. 11th century
fl. 12th century
fl. 13th century
Late Middle Ages
Historians of the Italian Renaissance are listed under "Renaissance".

Islamic world

Far East

South Asia

Renaissance to early modern

Renaissance Europe

Western historians flourishing during the Italian Renaissance or Northern Renaissance
Individuals born after 1600 are listed under "early modern".

Early modern period

Western historians who flourished during the Early modern and Enlightenment period, between c. 1600 and 1815

Middle East and Islamic Empires

Far East

Modern historians

Historians who flourished after 1815 and who were born after 1770

Historians born during the 19th century

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  • Carroll Quigley (1910–1977), classical, western history, theorist of civilizations

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See also

General
Lists of historians

References

  1. ↑ for longer list and detailed biographies see "Chronological list of historians" in Kelly Boyd, ed (1999). Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing. Taylor & Francis. pp. xxvii–xxxii.
  2. ↑ Making History and biography
  3. ↑ Making History and biography
  4. ↑ Obituary

Bibliography

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    • Allison, William Henry et al. eds. A guide to historical literature (1931), comprehensive bibliography for scholarship to 1930 as selected by scholars from the American Historical Association online edition;
  • Barnes, Harry Elmer. A history of historical writing (1962)
  • Barnes, Harry Elmer. History, its rise and development: a survey of the progress of historical writing from its origins to the present day (1922), online
  • Barraclough, Geoffrey. History: Main Trends of Research in the Social and Human Sciences, (1978)
  • Bentley, Michael. ed., Companion to Historiography, Routledge, 1997, ISBN 9780415285575; 39 chapters by experts
  • Boyd, Kelly, ed. (1999). Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing. Taylor & Francis 2 vol. detailed coverage of historians and major themes.
  • Breisach, Ernst. Historiography: Ancient, Medieval and Modern, 3rd edition, 2007, ISBN 0-226-07278-9
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