Thucydides (c. 460 – c. 395 BC) was a Greek historian and author from Alimos. His History of the Peloponnesian War recounts the 5th century BC war between Sparta and Athens to the year 411 BC. Thucydides has been dubbed the father of "scientific history", because of his strict standards of evidence-gathering and analysis in terms of cause and effect without reference to intervention by the gods, as outlined in his introduction to his work.
Thucydides (c. 460 – c. 395 BC) was a Greek historian and author from Alimos. His History of the Peloponnesian War recounts the 5th century BC war between Sparta and Athens to the year 411 BC. Thucydides has been dubbed the father of "scientific history", because of his strict standards of evidence-gathering and analysis in terms of cause and effect without reference to intervention by the gods, as outlined in his introduction to his work.
Louis Heilprin (1851-1912) was a Hungarian American author, historian, and encyclopedia editor. He was born in Miskolc, Hungary in 1851. His father, Michael, was also an encyclopedist and scholar of Hebrew history and literature and a follower of Lajos Kossuth. He had a brother Angelo who was a professor at the Philadelphia Academy of Sciences and two sisters. The family left Hungary as refugees i...
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Louis Heilprin (1851-1912) was a Hungarian American author, historian, and encyclopedia editor. He was born in Miskolc, Hungary in 1851. His father, Michael, was also an encyclopedist and scholar of Hebrew history and literature and a follower of Lajos Kossuth. He had a brother Angelo who was a professor at the Philadelphia Academy of Sciences and two sisters. The family left Hungary as refugees i...