List of European historians facts for kids

This is a list of European historians (by nation).

Belarus

• Anatol Hrytskievich, d. in 2015

Belgium

• Henri Pirenne - "one of the most eminent scholars of the Middle Ages and of Belgian national development", says Encyclopædia Britannica; he died in 1935

Croatia

• Aleksandar Stipčević, was a member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Kosovo; d. in 2015

Czechia

• Antonín Klimek, d. in 2005
• Milan Nakonečný

Estonia

• Helmut Piirimäe, died in 2017

Finland

• Peter von Bagh, d. in 2014

France

• Élisée Reclus
• Hilaire Belloc - he was a Member of Parliament for English constituencies; the naturalised Brit, died in 1953.

German

• Karl Marx - author of the pamphlet The Communist Manifesto, and Das Kapital; he died in 1883

Great Britain

• Hilaire Belloc - he was a Member of Parliament for English constituencies; the French born and (later) naturalised Brit, died in 1953.

England

• Winston Churchill - he was Prime Minister of Great Britain; death - 1965

Wales

• Terry Jones - he is a former member of Monty Python.

Hungary

• György Szabad, was the Speaker of the National Assembly of Hungary; d. in 2015

Iceland

• Snorri Sturluson, author of Younger Edda and Heimskringla; d. in 1241

Ireland

• Louis Cullen

Italy

• Davide Bertolotti
• Girolamo Borsieri
• Sigismondo Boldoni
• Paolo Giovio
• Giovanni Battista Giovio
• Santo Monti (historian)
• Tommaso Porcacchi

Liechtenstein

• Peter Kaiser, d. in 1864

Norway

• Theoderic (Norwegian historian) - called Norway's first historian; the monk wrote in the 12th century

Portugal

• Mário Soares, was Prime Minister of Portugal; d. in 2017

Romania

• Ioan P. Culianu, d. in 1991

• Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu, a former Minister of Foreign Affairs

Russia

• Yuri Bychkov, d. in 2016

• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, got the Nobel Prize in literature; he died in 2008

Slovenia

• Janko Prunk, is a former Minister for Slovenes outside Slovenia (in the first coalition cabinet of Janez Drnovšek)

Spain

• Bautista Álvarez. d. in 2017

• Gonzalo Anes, d. in 2014
• Salvador de Madariaga, d. in 1978

Sweden

• Olle Häger, won Stora Journalistpriset; d. in 2014

Switzerland

• Markus Brüderlin, d. in 2014

Turkey

• Afet İnan, d. in 1985

• Taner Akçam

Ukraine

• Oleksandr Shevchenko, politician; d. in 2016

Related pages

• List of historians by country
• List of historians