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Born December 7, 1872 • Groningen • Netherlands
Died February 1, 1945 (aged 72)
Subjects Of Study Middle Ages
Marc Bloch
French historian
Pirenne, Henri
Henri Pirenne
Belgian historian
Flavio Biondo
Italian historian
Pierre Pithou
French lawyer
J.-C.-L. Simonde de Sismondi
Swiss economist
Charles Homer Haskins
American educator
Ferdinand Lot
French historian
Adam Of Bremen
German historian
Theodor von Sickel
Austrian historian
Joachim Lelewel
Joachim Lelewel
Polish historian
Arthur Giry
French historian
William Stubbs
British historian
Louis-Georges-Oudard-Feudrix de Bréquigny
French historian
Hugo Grotius
Hugo Grotius
Dutch statesman and scholar
Pieter Geyl
Dutch historian
Scaliger, Joseph Justus
Joseph Justus Scaliger
Dutch philologist and historian
Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft
Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft
Dutch author
Johan van der Does
Dutch statesman
Jan van Hout
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Reinhart Pieter Dozy
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