List of historians

This is a list of historians only for those with a biographical entry in Wikipedia. Major chroniclers and annalists are included. Names are listed by the person's historical period. The entries continue with the specializations, not nationality.[1]

"Historians" redirects here. For the profession, see Historian.

Antiquity

Greco-Roman world
Further information: List of Greek historiographers, Greek historiography, and Roman historiography

Classical period

Hellenistic period

Roman Empire

China

Middle Ages

Byzantine sphere

Latin sphere

Early Middle Ages

High Middle Ages
Further information: Recueil des historiens des croisades
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
Further information: Historiography of early Islam

Far East

South Asia

Renaissance to early modern

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

Early modern period
Western historians of the Early modern and Enlightenment period, c. 1600–1815

Middle East and Islamic Empires
Further information: Safavid Empire, Mughal Empire, and Ottoman Empire

Far East
  • Qian Qianyi (1582–1664) (late Chinese Ming Dynasty)
  • Zhang Tingyu (1672–1755) (Chinese Qing Dynasty) compiled the History of Ming.
  • Qian Daxin (1728–1804) (Chinese Qing Dynasty)
  • Chang Hsüeh-ch'eng (1738–1801), Chinese historian, local histories and essays on historiography
  • Yu Deuk-gong (1749–1807), Korean historian

Modern historians

Historians flourishing after 1815, born after 1770
Further information: Historiography of the French Revolution § Contemporary and 19th-century historians

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  • Dmitry Ilovaisky (1832–1920), Russian history
  • Harold Innis (1894–1952), Canadian economic history
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  • Jonathan Israel (born 1946), Netherlands, Enlightenment, Jewry
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  • J. L. Talmon (1916–1980), Modern, The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy
  • Alasdair and Hettie Tayler (1870–1937/1869–1951), Scotland
  • A. J. P. Taylor (1906–1990), Britain, modern Europe
  • Abdelhadi Tazi (1921–2015), Moroccan
  • Antonio Tellez (1921–2005), Spanish Anarchism, anti-fascist resistance
  • Harold Temperley (1879–1939), 19th and early 20th-century diplomacy
  • Romila Thapar (born 1931), ancient India
  • Stephan Thernstrom (born 1934), American ethnic
  • Barbara Thiering (1930–2015), Biblical
  • Joan Thirsk (1922–2013), agriculture
  • Hugh Thomas (1931–2017), Spanish Civil War, Atlantic slave trade
  • E. P. Thompson (1924–1993), British labor history
  • Mark Thompson (born 1959), Balkans, WW 1 Italy
  • John Toland (1912–2004), World War I and World War II
  • K. Ross Toole (1920–1981), Montana
  • Ahmed Toufiq (born 1943), Moroccan
  • Marc Trachtenberg (born 1946), Cold War
  • Hugh Trevor-Roper (1914–2003), Nazi; British
  • Gil Troy (born 1961), modern American, the Presidency
  • Barbara Tuchman (1912–1989), 20th-century military
  • Robert C. Tucker (1918–2010), Stalin
  • Peter Turchin (born 1957), Russian historian of historical dynamics
  • Henry Ashby Turner, Jr. (1932–2008), 20th-century German
  • Denis Twitchett (1925–2006), China
  • David Tyack (1930–2016), American education
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See also
General
Lists of historians

References
  1. For a longer list and detailed biographies see "Chronological list of historians": Kelly Boyd, ed (1999). Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing. Taylor and Francis. pp. xxvii–xxxii.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)

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;
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  • Boyd, Kelly, ed. (1999). Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing. Taylor and Francis 2 vol. ISBN 9781884964336.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link); detailed coverage of historians and major themes.
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