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Also Known As Beatus Bild
Born August 22, 1485 • France
Died July 20, 1547 (aged 61) • Strasbourg • France
Notable Works “Rerum Germanicarum libri tres”
Subjects Of Study Germanic peoples
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A.L. Rowse
British historian and writer
John Hope Franklin
John Hope Franklin
American scholar
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Dumas Malone
American historian, editor, and the author
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Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm
German author, folklorist, and philologist
Karl Marx
Karl Marx
German philosopher
Theodor Mommsen.
Theodor Mommsen
German historian, philologist, and legal scholar
Meinecke, 1942
Friedrich Meinecke
German historian
Eckermann, engraving after a drawing by Karl Eckermann, 1854
Johann Peter Eckermann
German writer
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Joachim Camerarius
German scholar and theologian
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Luc Holste
Vatican librarian
Dahn
Felix Dahn
German historian
Aventinus, detail from an engraving by T. Stimmer
Aventinus
Bavarian humanist and historian
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Charles Dudley Warner
American essayist
Painting of Samuel Johnson showing Johnson seated at a desk with a quill in hand and papers before him, wearing a brown coat and white wig.
Samuel Johnson
English author
Portrait of Niccolo Machiavelli by Santi di Tito shows Machiavelli in black and red robes, holding a document, against a plain background.
Niccolò Machiavelli
Italian statesman and writer
Portrait of Desiderius Erasmus, shown in dark robes and cap, writing with a quill at a desk, after Quinten Massijs, oil on panel, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
Erasmus
Dutch humanist
Engraving of Petrarch wearing a laurel wreath and a robe, holding a closed book in his left hand.
Petrarch
Italian poet
Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio
Italian poet and scholar
Adams, Henry
Henry Adams
American historian
Lamartine, detail of an oil painting by François Gérard; in the Musée National de Versailles et des Trianons
Alphonse de Lamartine
French poet, historian, and statesman