Olaus Magnus: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Olaf Mansson
Born	October 1490 • Linköping • Sweden
Died	August 1, 1557 (aged 66) • Rome • Italy
Subjects Of Study	Scandinavia

Geijer, detail of an oil painting by J.G. Sandberg, 1828; in the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

Erik Gustaf Geijer

Swedish author

Dalin

Olof von Dalin

Swedish author

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Harald Gabriel Hjärne

Swedish politician

Magnus, Johannes

Johannes Magnus

Swedish archbishop

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François Furet

French historian

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Alan Bullock

British historian

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Hendrik Willem Van Loon

American historian and illustrator

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Fritz Fischer

German historian

Karl Marx

Karl Marx

German philosopher

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

David Hume

David Hume

Scottish philosopher

Michel Foucault

Michel Foucault

French philosopher and historian

Thucydides manuscript

Thucydides

Greek historian

Ibn Khaldūn

Ibn Khaldūn

Muslim historian

Engraved portrait of Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz with long curly hair, wearing a buttoned coat and cravat, facing forward.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

German philosopher and mathematician

Tacitus

Tacitus

Roman historian

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

Xenophon

Greek historian

Edward Gibbon

Edward Gibbon

British historian

Alexis de Tocqueville

Alexis de Tocqueville

French historian and political writer

Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle

British essayist and historian

Temple ruins of columns and statures at Karnak, Egypt (Egyptian architecture; Egyptian archaelogy; Egyptian history)

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