Category
page 120th-century German historians
Hannah Arendt
German-American political theorist and philosopher (1906–1975)
Oswald Spengler
German historian and philosopher (1880-1936)
Wilhelm Dilthey
German historian, psychologist, sociologist, student of hermeneutics, and philosopher (1833–1911)
Ricarda Huch
German writer (1864–1947)
Friedrich Kellner
German Justice inspector (1885-1970)
Adolf von Harnack
Baltic German theologian and prominent church historian (1851–1930)
Franz Mehring
German communist historian, philosopher, and politician (1846–1919)
Rudolf Otto
German theologian, philosopher, and comparative religionist (1869-1937)
Golo Mann
German-Swiss historian (1909-1994)
Arthur Moeller van den Bruck
German historian (1876–1925)
Joachim Fest
German historian (1926–2006)
Gershom Scholem
German-Israeli philosopher (1897–1982)
Paul Natorp
German philosopher and historian (1854–1924)
Sebastian Haffner
German journalist and author (1907–1999)
Hans Delbrück
German historian (1848-1929)
Ernst Nolte
German historian and philosopher (1923–2016)
Christian Lassen
Norwegian-German orientalist (1800-1876)
Karl August Wittfogel
German-American academic (1896–1988)
Reinhart Koselleck
German historian (1923–2006)
Karl Lamprecht
German historian (1856–1915)
Ferdinand Gregorovius
German historian (1821–1891)
Rainer Zitelmann
German historian, author, management consultant and real estate expert
Friedrich Meinecke
German historian and philosopher of history (1862-1954)
Ludwig von Pastor
German historian and Austrian diplomat (1854-1928)
Albrecht Behmel
German novelist, historian and playwright
Fritz Fischer
German historian (1908–1999)
Georg Wissowa
German classical philologist (1859–1931)
Felix Jacoby
German classicist and philologist (1876–1959)
Carl Dahlhaus
German musicologist (1928–1989)
Karl Schlögel
German historian of Eastern Europe
Joseph Schacht
German Islamic scholar (1902–1969)
Karl Julius Beloch
German classical and economic historian (1854–1929)
Carl Joachim Friedrich
German political scientist (1901-1984)
Paul Reinecke
German prehistorian (1872–1958)
Franz Babinger
German orientalist and turkologist (1891-1967)
Götz Aly
German journalist, historian and social scientist
Arthur Rosenberg
German historian refugee from Nazis because of Jewish heritage (1889-1943)
Hubert Jedin
German theologian and historian (1900-1980)
Ulrich Wilcken
German historian (1862–1944)
Eberhard Jäckel
German historian (1929–2017)
Hans Mommsen
German historian (1930–2015)
Heinrich Brunner
Austrian legal scholar (1840–1915)
Rudolf Wittkower
German-American art historian
Otto Franke
German sinologist (1863–1946)
Jürgen Kuczynski
German economist and economic historian (1904-1997)
Arno Peters
German historian and filmmaker (1916–2002)
Otto Seeck
German classical historian (1850–1921)
Ernst Bernheim
German historian (1850–1942)
Gerhard Ritter
German historian (1888-1967)
Carsten Peter Thiede
German archaeologist (1952–2004)
Adolf Schulten
German historian and archaeologist (1870–1960)
Lotte H. Eisner
German film historian (1896-1983)
Jürgen Kocka
German historian
Martin Hengel
German historian of religion (1926–2009)
Heinrich August Winkler
German historian (born 1938)
Michael F. Feldkamp
German historian and journalist
Hugo Obermaier
Spanish-German historian and anthropologist (1877–1946)
Percy Ernst Schramm
German historian and politician (1894-1970)
Otto Hirschfeld
Prussian and German historian (1843–1922)
Eugen Kogon
German journalist, sociologist, professor and Holocaust survivor (1903-1987)