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Matthew of Edessa
Matthew of Edessa (Mattʿēos Uṙhayecʿi) was an early-twelfth-century Armenian monk in Edessa whose Chronicle covers independent Armenia's fall, the Saljuq conquests, and the First Crusade.
Mehmet Fuat Köprülü
Mehmet Fuat Köprülü (Köprülüzâde Mehmed Fuad, 1890–1966) was a Turkish literary historian and politician who founded modern Turkish historiography and co-founded the Democrat Party in 1946.
Merlin Holland
Merlin Holland (Christopher Merlin Vyvyan Holland, b. 1945, London), Oscar Wilde's only grandson, biographer and editor, estate administrator, author of The Wilde Album and After Oscar, and adapter of the 1895 trial transcript.
Miguel Cabello de Balboa
Miguel Cabello Valboa, who signed himself so rather than Cabello de Balboa, was a Spanish cleric and chronicler best known for the Miscelánea Antártica of 1586.
Mizancı Murat
Mizancı Murat (Mizancı Murad), born Mehmed Murad in Dagestan in 1854, was an Ottoman journalist and historian who led the Young Turk opposition to Sultan Abdülhamid II.
Mkhitar Ayrivanetsi
Mkhitar Ayrivanetsi (Մխիթար Այրիվանեցի) was a 13th-century Armenian vardapet, historian, poet, and composer at Ayrivank monastery, today Geghard near Yerevan, known for a chronicle printed in 1860 as Patmutiwn Hayots.
Mohammad Qazvini
Mohammad Qazvini (محمد قزوینی; 1877–1949) was an Iranian scholar, a pioneer of critical text editing who prepared reliable editions of classical Persian and Arabic works.
Motiejus Valančius
Motiejus Valančius (1801–1875) was a Lithuanian Roman Catholic bishop of Samogitia who led a mass temperance movement, built parish schools, and organized the smuggling of banned Lithuanian books.
Movses Daskhurantsi
Movses Daskhurantsi, also called Movses Kaghankatvatsi, is the traditional name for the author of the History of the Aluank, the main source on Caucasian Albania.
Munis Khwarazmi
Munis Khwarazmi (Shermuhammad Munis; مونس; 1778–1829) was a Khivan historian, poet, and statesman who wrote the official history of the Khanate of Khiva, Firdaws al-iqbal, and served as chief mirab in charge of irrigation.
Mykhailo Drahomanov
Mykhailo Drahomanov (Михайло Драгоманов, 1841–1895) was a Ukrainian historian, folklorist, and political thinker who headed the Ukrainian political emigration in Geneva and founded the journal Hromada.
P. K. Parameswaran Nair
P. K. Parameswaran Nair (1903–1988) was a Malayalam literary historian, critic, and biographer whose Malayala Sahitya Charitram, written for the Sahitya Akademi, became the standard one-volume history of Malayalam literature.
Pathisa Nyathi
Pathisa Nyathi (1951–2024) was a Zimbabwean historian and writer who documented Ndebele history and oral traditions in more than 50 books, mostly written in isiNdebele, and founded the Amagugu International Heritage Centre.
Patrick White: A Life
Patrick White: A Life is a 727-page 1991 biography of the Australian novelist and Nobel laureate Patrick White by journalist David Marr, published by Random House Australia.
Paul Fussell
Paul Fussell (1924–2012), American literary and cultural historian, author of The Great War and Modern Memory (1975), National Book Award winner; also wrote on WWII, American class, and language, distinct from other Fussells.
Paweł Jasienica
Paweł Jasienica was the pen name of Leon Lech Beynar (1909–1970), a Polish historian and Home Army officer whose essay cycle on pre-partition Poland made him one of the most widely read Polish writers on history.
Philostratus
Philostratus (Lucius Flavius Philostratus, c. 170 – c. 247 CE) was an Athenian Greek sophist and writer, best known for the Lives of the Sophists and the Life of Apollonius of Tyana.
Pierre Berton
Pierre Berton (1920–2004) was a Canadian journalist, broadcaster, and popular historian who wrote about 50 books on Canadian history and won three Governor General's Awards.
Pir Husamuddin Rashdi
Pir Husamuddin Rashdi (پير حسام الدين راشدي), 1911 to 1982, was a Pakistani historian, biographer, and journalist who edited Persian manuscripts on Sindh's history into Sindhi and Urdu.
René Vallery-Radot
René Vallery-Radot (1853–1933) was a French man of letters, journalist at the Temps, and son-in-law of Louis Pasteur, whose biography he wrote and whose institute he led from 1917.
Richard Ligon
Richard Ligon (c. 1585–1662) was an English royalist and writer whose 1657 book on Barbados became a principal source on its sugar economy and plantation slavery.
Robert Caro
Robert Caro (born 1935) is an American journalist-biographer, author of The Power Broker (1975 Pulitzer) and the multi-volume The Years of Lyndon Johnson, with two Pulitzers, two National Book Awards, and a fifth LBJ volume still unfinished.
Ron Chernow
Ron Chernow is an American biographer and historian, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, known for critically honored works like Alexander Hamilton and The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
Rudolf Pfeiffer
Rudolf Pfeiffer (1889–1979) was a German classical philologist who edited Callimachus and wrote the two-volume History of Classical Scholarship, teaching at Oxford after his 1937 removal from Munich.
Ruy Díaz de Guzmán
Ruy Díaz de Guzmán was a mestizo soldier and official of the Río de la Plata who wrote La Argentina manuscrita, the region's first history by a native-born author.
Sallust
Sallust (Gaius Sallustius Crispus, 86–35 BCE) was a Roman historian and politician who retired under Julius Caesar's patronage to write histories of Catiline's conspiracy and the Jugurthine War.
Saxo Grammaticus
Saxo Grammaticus was a Danish historian active around 1200 whose Gesta Danorum, a sixteen-book Latin history of Denmark, is the most important literary monument of medieval Denmark.
Sérgio Buarque de Holanda
Sérgio Buarque de Holanda (1902–1982) was a Brazilian historian, literary critic, and journalist, best known for Raízes do Brasil (1936) and the concept of the homem cordial.
Shah Muhammad Marri
Shah Muhammad Marri (شاہ محمد مری) is a Pakistani Baloch scholar and historian at the University of Balochistan who has written over 100 Balochi books on Balochistan's history.
Shyamaldas
Shyamaldas (श्यामलदास), known as Kaviraj Shyamaldas, was a 19th-century court poet and historian of Mewar who served Maharana Sajjan Singh and wrote the Vir Vinod.