Peter Burke

Peter Burke

male, 72 years old
Peter Burke (born 1937) is a British historian. He was educated by the Jesuits and at St John's College, Oxford, where he obtained his doctorate....
Jacques Barzun

Jacques Barzun

male, 101 years old
Jacques Martin Barzun is a leading American historian of ideas and culture. His reputation, such as it is, is that of a political and social...
Peter Gay

Peter Gay

male, 86 years old
Peter Gay, a Jewish American historian of the social history of ideas, born as Peter Joachim Fröhlich in Berlin, where he was educated at the G...
Natalie Zemon Davis

Natalie Zemon Davis

female, 81 years old
Natalie Zemon Davis (born November 8, 1928) is an Canadian and American historian of early modern Europe. Her work originally focused on France,...
Jacob Burckhardt

Jacob Burckhardt

male, deceased (1897)
Jacob Burckhardt (May 25, 1818, Basel, Switzerland - August 8, 1897, Basel) was a Swiss historian of art and culture, fields which he helped found....
Johan Huizinga

Johan Huizinga

male, deceased (1945)
Johan Huizinga (December 7, 1872 - February 1, 1945), a Dutch historian, was one of the founders of modern cultural history. Born in Groningen, he...
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...
Sander Gilman

Sander Gilman

male, 65 years old
Sander L. Gilman is an American cultural and literary historian, who is particularly well-known for his contributions to Jewish studies and the...

Michael Denning

male
Michael Denning is an American cultural historian and William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of American Studies at Yale University. His work has been...
Richard Tarnas

Richard Tarnas

male, 59 years old
Richard Tarnas (born February 21 1950), author of "The Passion of the Western Mind" (1991) and "Cosmos and Psyche" (2006), is a cultural historian...