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Eunapius
Greek historian
Quentin Skinner
Quentin Skinner
British historian
Freiherr von Pufendorf
Samuel, baron von Pufendorf
German jurist and historian
Winckelmann, Johann
Johann Winckelmann
German art historian
Joan Wallach Scott
American historian
Lodovico Antonio Muratori
Lodovico Antonio Muratori
Italian historiographer
Thomas Rymer
English critic
Edmund Bolton
English author and historian
Leopold Ranke
Leopold von Ranke
German historian
Fernand Braudel
French historian and educator
Marc Bloch
French historian
Jacques-Auguste de Thou
French statesman and historian
David Hackett Fischer
American educator and historian
James Harvey Robinson
James Harvey Robinson
American historian
Barthold Georg Niebuhr, detail from an engraving
Barthold Georg Niebuhr
German historian
Meinecke, 1942
Friedrich Meinecke
German historian
Fernão Lopes
Portuguese historian
Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges
French historian
Fernán Pérez de Guzmán
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Gabriel Monod
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