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Born October 30, 1862 • Germany
Died February 6, 1954 (aged 91) • Berlin • Germany
Subjects Of Study Germany • historicism • historiography

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Rudolf Virchow
Rudolf Virchow
German scientist
Freiherr von Pufendorf
Samuel, baron von Pufendorf
German jurist and historian
Karl Gotthard Lamprecht
German historian
Treitschke, Heinrich von
Heinrich von Treitschke
German historian
Heinrich von Sybel
German historian
Georg Waitz
German historian
Julius Streicher.
Julius Streicher
German politician
Dahlmann, detail from an engraving by Adolf Hohneck, 1844
Friedrich Dahlmann
German historian
Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl
German author
Johannes Janssen
German historian
Johann Friedrich Böhmer
German historian
Adam Of Bremen
German historian
Thietmar
Thietmar
German bishop
Wilhelm von Giesebrecht
German historian
Niccolò Machiavelli
Niccolò Machiavelli
Italian statesman and writer
Bainville, 1936
Jacques Bainville
French historian
Edward R. Murrow (left) and William L. Shirer.
William L. Shirer
American author
Heinrich Friedjung
Austrian historian
George Peabody Gooch
British historian
Georges Blondel
French historian

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