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Karl Marx

Karl Marx

German philosopher

David Hume

David Hume

Scottish philosopher

Niccolò Machiavelli

Niccolò Machiavelli

Italian statesman and writer

Thucydides manuscript

Thucydides

Greek historian

Xenophon, statue in front of the parliament building in Vienna.

Xenophon

Greek historian

Ibn Khaldūn

Ibn Khaldūn

Muslim historian

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

German philosopher and mathematician

Tacitus

Tacitus

Roman historian

Alexis de Tocqueville

Alexis de Tocqueville

French historian and political writer

Edward Gibbon

Edward Gibbon

British historian

Herodotus, detail of a Roman herm probably copied from a Greek original of the first half of the 4th century bce; in the National Archaeological Museum, Naples.

Herodotus

Greek historian

Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle

British essayist and historian

Livy

Livy

Roman historian

Thomas Babington Macaulay, detail of an oil painting by J. Partridge, 1840; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay

English politician and author

Polybius, statue in Vienna.

Polybius

Greek historian

Hugo Grotius

Hugo Grotius

Dutch statesman and scholar

Leopold Ranke

Leopold von Ranke

German historian

Adams, Henry

Henry Adams

American historian

Bartolomé de Las Casas

Bartolomé de Las Casas

Spanish historian and missionary

Theodor Mommsen.

Theodor Mommsen

German historian, philologist, and legal scholar

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