List of historians

The names are grouped by order of the historical period in which they were writing, which is not necessarily the same as the period in which they specialised.

Chroniclers and annalists, though they are not historians in the true sense, are also listed here for convenience.

Table of contents

1 Ancient historians 2 Medieval historians/chroniclers 3 Early modern historians (1600-1900) 4 Modern historians (after 1900) 5 Unsorted

Ancient historians

• Dio Cassius, Roman history
• Gaius Acilius, Roman history
• Lucius Ampelius, Roman history
• Herodotus, (485 BC - c.420 BC), Halicanassian historian
• Thucydides, (c.460 - 400 BC), Peloponnesian War
• Xenophon, (431 BC -c.360 BC), an Athenian knight and student of Socrates
• Polybius, (c.203 BC - 120 BC)
• C. Julius Caesar, (c.100 BC - 44 BC)
• Flavius Josephus, (AD 37 - AD 100), Jewish history
• Kalhana
• Sima Qian, (140 BC - 135 BC), Chinese history
• Livy, (c.59 BC - AD 17), Roman history
• Cremutius Cordus, - AD 25
• Sallust, (86 BC - 34 BC)
• Plutarch, (c. AD 46 - 120)
• Gaius Cornelius Tacitus, (AD 56 - 120), early Roman Empire
• C. Suetonius Tranquillus, (75 - 160)
• Eusebius of Caesarea, Christian history
• Ammianus Marcellinus (c.325 - c.391),
• Arrian

• Procopius, (died c. 565), Byzantines
• Gregory of Tours, (538-594), Franks
• Bede, (c. 632-735), Anglo-Saxons
• Nennius
• Geoffrey of Monmouth, churchman/historian
• Albert of Aix, historian of the first crusade
• Michael Psellus the younger, (1018 - c. 1078)
• Sima Guang (1019-1086), historiographer and politician
• Guibert of Nogent (1053-1124)
• William of Malmesbury (c. 1080 - c. 1143)
• Anna Comnena (1083 - after 1148)
• Adam of Bremen
• Saxo Grammaticus, (12th century), Danish
• Svend Aagesen, (12th century), Danish
• William of Tyre (c. 1128 - 1186)
• Geoffroi de Villehardouin, (c. 1160-1212)
• Matthew Paris, (died 1259)
• Jean de Joinville, (1224-1319)
• ibn Khaldun
• Piers Langtoft, (died c. 1307)
• Jean Froissart, (c.1337 - c.1405), chronicler
• Alphonsus A Sancta Maria, (1396-1456)
• Johannes Longinus, Polish historian and chronicler
• Philippe de Commines, French historian
• Christine de Pizan, (c. 1365 - c. 1430), historian, poet, philosopher
• Albert Krantz, (1450-1517), German
• João de Barros (1496-1570), Potuguese
• Josias Simmler, (1530-1576)
• Raphael Holinshed, (died c. 1580)
• Caesar Baronius, (1538-1607)

• Ludovico Antonio Muratori, (1672-1750), Italy
• Edward Gibbon, (1737-1794), Roman Empire
• Johannes von Müller, (1752-1809)
• Anton Tomaz Linhart, (1756-1795)
• Leopold Von Ranke, (1795-1886), German
• William H. Prescott, (1796-1859), US historian of Spain, Mexico, Peru
• Jules Michelet, (1798-1874)
• Ludwig von Köchel, (1800-1877), writer, composer, botanist, music historian
• Theodor Mommsen, (1817-1903), Roman Empire
• Jacob Burckhardt, (1818-1897), art history
• Zacharius Topelius, (1818-1898)
• Henry Adams, (1838-1918), Democracy: An American Novel
• Arnold Toynbee, (1852-1883), British
• Henri Pirenne, (1862-1935), Belgian
• Alfred Thayer Mahan, (1840-1914), naval history
• Frederick W. Maitland, (1850-1906), legal history
• Simon Rutar, (1851-1903)

• Robert G. Albion, maritime history
• Stephen Ambrose, (1936-2002)
• Isaiah Berlin, (1909-1997) - history of ideas
• Marc Bloch (1886-1944) - medieval France
• John Boswell, (1947-1994) - mediævalist and gay history
• Ferdinand Braudel
• Robin Briggs
• Peter Brown
• Alan Bullock
• Jeffrey Burton Russell
• Angus Calder - Great Britain
• Lionel Casson
• Howard I. Chapelle - maritime history
• Robert Conquest, Russia, Soviet Union
• David B. Danbom
• Saul David - military history
• John Davies
• Norman Davies
• Georges Duby, (1924-1996), Middle Ages
• Trevor Dupuy
• C. J. Everon, (born 1971)
• Ronan Fanning, Irish historian
• Brian Farrell, historian and emeritus Associated Professor of Politics, UCD
• Lucien Febvre, (1878-1956), French historian
• Orlando Figes, Russia
• Walter Frank, (1905-1945), Nazi historian and anti-Semitic writer
• Antonia Fraser, England
• Sheppard Frere
• Francis Fukuyama, (born 1955)
• Pieter Geyl, Dutch historian
• Peter Green - ancient history
• Lionel Groulx, (1878-1967), priest, historian
• Christopher Hill, (1912-2003), 17th century England
• Eric Hobsbawm, Marxist historian
• Richard Holmes
• Michael Howard
• Johan Huizinga, Dutch historian, wrote 'Waning of the Middle Ages'
• Tristram Hunt, (born 1974)
• Jonathan Israel, British historian
• Pawel Jasienica, (1909-1970), Poland
• John Keegan - military history
• France Kidric, (1880-1950), literary history
• Michael Laffan - Irish historian
• David Lavender, (1910-2003), US West
• Barbara Levick, English; specialising in Roman emperors
• Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
• Li Ao, (born 1935), Chinese historian, author
• John Edward Lloyd
• Sr. Margaret MacCurtain, Irish mediævalist
• Charles B. MacDonald - World War II
• Rosamond McKitterick
• Ramsay MacMullen
• Tyrone G. Martin, USS Constitution
• Rev. F.X. Martin - Irish mediævalist and campaigner
• Kenneth O Morgan
• Samuel Eliot Morison - naval history
• Lewis Mumford, (1895-1988)
• Leo Niehorster, military historian
• Henry Newbolt, (1862-1938)
• Peter Paret - military history
• Harry W. Pfanz - American Civil War
• Richard Pipes - Russia, Soviet Union
• Eileen Power - Middle Ages
• Ivan Prijatelj, (1875-1937), literary history
• Ludwig Quidde, (1858-1941), historian and pacifist
• William L. Rodgers
• Sheila Rowbotham
• A L Rowse, (1903 - 1997), historian
• Steven Runciman - Crusades
• Cornelius Ryan - World War II
• Simon Schama
• Howard Hayes Scullard (1903-1983), ancient history
• Robert Service
• Goldwin Smith, (1823 - 1910), historian
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, (born 1918), Russian historian and novelist
• Jackson J. Spielvogel, Pennsylvania State University
• David Starkey, (born 1945), Tudor historian and TV presenter
• Frank Stenton, Anglo-Saxon historian
• Ronald Syme, (1903 - 1989), ancient history
• A J P Taylor, (1906-1990), Historian of European International Relations
• E. P. Thompson, (1924-1993), British Labour historian
• Arnold J. Toynbee, (1889-1975), A Study of History
• George Macaulay Trevelyan
• Hugh Trevor-Roper, (1914-2003), specialist on Nazi leadership and British peer
• Frederick Jackson Turner, (1861-1932), US historian developed the Frontier Thesis
• Retha M Warnicke, (born 1939), Tudor history & gender issues
• Cicely Veronica Wedgwood, (1910-1997), British historian
• John Whyte - focused on Northern Ireland and on divided societies
• Eric Williams, (1911-1981), Caribbean historian, strongly anti-imperialist
• Glanmor Williams
• Mary Wilhelmine Williams
• John B. Wolf, French history
• Michael Wood
• C. Vann Woodward, (1908-1999), southern United States
• Howard Zinn, United States

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