10 Facts About Historian

Historian'storian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it.

Historian'storians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time.

Historian'storianrodotus attempted to distinguish between more and less reliable accounts and personally conducted research by travelling extensively, giving written accounts of various Mediterranean cultures.

Historian'storian was the first to distinguish between cause and immediate origins of an event, while his successor Xenophon introduced autobiographical elements and character studies in his Anabasis.

Historian's written work was the Shiji, a monumental lifelong achievement in literature.

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Historian'storian was the first scholar to make a serious attempt to write the history of the world, eliminating theological frameworks, and emphasizing economics, culture, and political history.

Historian's scholarship was painstaking for the time and he was able to access a large number of documentary sources that had previously been unstudied.

Historian's writings are famous for their ringing prose and for their confident, sometimes dogmatic, emphasis on a progressive model of British history, according to which the country threw off superstition, autocracy and confusion to create a balanced constitution and a forward-looking culture combined with the freedom of belief and expression.

Historian'storian was the chief theoretical influence of French naturalism, a major proponent of sociological positivism and one of the first practitioners of historicist criticism.

Historian'storian took a comparative topical approach to independent civilizations and demonstrated that they displayed striking parallels in their origin, growth, and decay.