Historian

A person who studies history.

So, what are historians like? What do they do? Surely we can make generalizations about historians per se.

Ancient Historians

Herodotus, around 480-425 B.C.

Thucydides, around 460-400 B.C.

Xenophon

Polybius, around 203-120 B.C.

C. Julius Caesar, 100-44 B.C.

[Flavius Josephus]?

Plutarch, A.D. 46?-120?

Cornelius Tacitus, A.D. 56?-117?

[C. Suetonius Tranquillus]?, A.D. 69-140?

Eusebius of Caesarea

Bede

Medieval Historians

Procopius, died about A.D. 565

[Gregory of Tours]?, A.D. 538-594

[Geoffroi de Villehardouin]?, around A.D. 1160-1212

Modern Historians

[Henri Pirenne]?

Marc Bloch

[Lucien Febvre]?

[Georges Duby]?

[Jeffrey Burton Russell]?

[Rosamond McKitterick]?

[Peter Brown]?

[John Keegan]?

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