Geoffrey Elton
Sign in to saveAlso known as Gottfried Rudolph Otto Ehrenberg, Sir Geoffrey Rudolph Elton, Geoffrey R. Elton, G. R. Elton, Geoffrey R Elton, G R Elton
British historian (1921–1994)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 2
Top works
- Which road to the past?
- Practice of History
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1947-03-25
adult contemporaryalbum rockam popbritishclassic rockcontemporary pop/rock
Discography
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Deep learning
· 2015 · cited 74,946x
- ImageNet classification with deep convolutional neural networks
· 2017 · cited 32,050x
- Learning representations by back-propagating errors
· 1986 · cited 24,397x
- The WEKA data mining software
· 2009 · cited 13,091x
- A Fast Learning Algorithm for Deep Belief Nets
· 2006 · cited 13,034x
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Quotes
- “English government has a special claim to be studied. It developed in comparative freedom from outside interference, producing a curious blend of decentralized and popular freedom with strong, efficient, and centralized administration.”
- “In history there are no authorities: history is a free study in which no man can claim rule, or credence for his mere ipse dixit, and in which the only true sin is to deny a hearing to views with which one happens to disagree.”
- “We historians are, in a way, fighting for our lives. Certainly, we are fighting for the lives of innocent young people beset by devilish tempters who claim to offer higher forms of thought and deeper truths and insights – the intellectual equivalent of crack, in fact. Any acceptance of these theories – even the most gentle or modest bow in their direction – can prove fatal.”
- “One of the chief tests of the quality of historical work lies in its readability. History, even serious history, is interesting, and the historian who makes it dull deserves the pillory.”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Geoffrey
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Place of birth
- Tübingen
- Place of death
- England
- Father
- Victor Ehrenberg
- Occupation
- lawyer
- Employer
- University of Glasgow
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- Knight Bachelor
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- Antigone
- name in native language
- Geoffrey Rudolph Elton
- date of birth
- 1921-08-17
- date of death
- 1994-12-04
- member of
- Royal Historical Society
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- manner of death
- natural causes
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