Historian facts for kids

A historian is someone who studies history. Historians study the passage of time and the events that happen within that passage.

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Herodotus (c. 484–c. 425 BC) was a Greek historian who lived in the fifth century BC and one of the earliest historians whose work survives.
Reproduction of part of a tenth-century copy of Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War.
Leonardo Bruni (c.1370–1444), the historian who first divided history into the three eras of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and Modern times.
A page of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People
Voltaire's works of history are an excellent example of Enlightenment era history writing. Painting by Pierre Charles Baquoy.
Edward Gibbon's Decline of the Roman Empire (1776) was a masterpiece of late 18th-century history writing.
Jules Michelet, later in his career.
Ranke established history as a professional academic discipline in Germany.
The 20th century saw the creation of a huge variety of historiographical approaches. Marc Bloch's focus on social history rather than traditional political history was of tremendous influence.
Peter R.L Brown, a Princeton historian of Late Antiquity and the Medieval period.