Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson

male, deceased (1901)
Samuel Johnson (1846-1901) was an Anglican priest and historian of the Yoruba. Born in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Johnson claimed descent from Alaafin...
Walter Laqueur

Walter Laqueur

male, 88 years old
Walter Zeev Laqueur is an American historian and political commentator. He was born in Breslau, Germany (modern Wrocław, Poland), to a Jewish f...
Robert Darnton

Robert Darnton

male, 70 years old
Robert Darnton (born May 10, 1939) is an American cultural historian, recognized as a leading expert on eighteenth century France. He graduated...
Carlo Ginzburg

Carlo Ginzburg

male, 70 years old
Carlo Ginzburg is a noted historian and pioneer of microhistory. He is most famous for his ground-breaking book, "The Cheese and the Worms: The...
Christopher Clark

Christopher Clark

male
Christopher Clark (born c. 1960 in Sydney), and raised in London, is an Australian historian working in England and the United States. He received...
Robert Michael

Robert Michael

male
Dr. Robert Michael is an American historian. He currently is Professor Emeritus of European History at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth,...
Garrett Mattingly

Garrett Mattingly

male, deceased (1962)
Garrett Mattingly (1900-1962) was a professor of European history at Columbia University, specializing in early modern diplomatic history. He won a...
Marc Ferro

Marc Ferro

male
Marc Ferro is a French historian. He has worked on early twentieth-century European history, specialising in the history of Russia, the USSR as...
Gordon Wright

Gordon Wright

male, deceased (2000)
Gordon Wright was a US historian. He has worked on modern European history, particularly French history. He was elected president of the American...
Robert S. Wistrich

Robert S. Wistrich

male, 64 years old
Robert Solomon Wistrich (born 1945) is the Neuburger Professor of European and Jewish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the head...