Historian Famous Names Starting with Letter D

Was a prolific American historian, professor, attorney, and writer. He served as the U.S. Librarian

Was a prolific American historian, professor, attorney, and writer. He served as the U.S. Librarian of Congress from 1975 until 1987.He graduated with highest honors from Harvard, studied at Balliol College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and earned his PhD. at Yale University. He was a lawyer and a university professor at the University of Chicago for 25 years. He also served as director of the National Museum of History and Technology of the Smithsonian Institution. Boorstin wrote more than 20 books, including a trilogy on the American experience and one on world intellectual history

Is an Israeli historian and diplomat. Since January 2004 he has served as the ambassador of Israel t

Is an Israeli historian and diplomat. Since January 2004 he has served as the ambassador of Israel to Poland.In 1996 he returned to diplomacy and briefly served as the Israeli representative to the New York branch of the United Nations.

Is a social historian of science

Is a social historian of science

Is a Russian anthropologist, historian, and africanist. He is Vice-Director of the Institute for Afr

Is a Russian anthropologist, historian, and africanist. He is Vice-Director of the Institute for African Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, the Curator of the Center of History and Cultural Anthropology of this Institute, Professor of the Center of Soc

Was a noted Ukrainian historian, archeologist, ethnographer, folklorist, and lexicographer. He was o

Was a noted Ukrainian historian, archeologist, ethnographer, folklorist, and lexicographer. He was one of the most prominent investigators of the Ukrainian Cossacks, especially the Zaporozhian Cossacks (see Zaporozhian Host), and the author of their first

Is an Israeli-born American historian and playwright. He is head of the History Department at Fordha

Is an Israeli-born American historian and playwright. He is head of the History Department at Fordham University in New York.

Is a full professor in the history department of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.This work was Me

Is a full professor in the history department of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.This work was Mendels' first published book, issued in 1987 in Germany by Mohr-Siebeck, Tuebingen, Germany. The book deals with the pseudepigrapha, apocrypha and Jewish Hellenistic literature of the Hasmonean era, works which have not usually been seen in their historical-political context.

Was a Chinese scholar, historian and prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, who devoted thirty-six year

Was a Chinese scholar, historian and prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, who devoted thirty-six years to the compilation of the Tongdian, a historical encyclopedia with 200 sections (volumes), a collection of laws, regulations, and general events from ancient times to his own. He was born to an official family in what is now Xi'an, Shaanxi, almost eighteen years before the abrupt rebellion of An Lushan.