The Most Famous
HISTORIANS from Czechia
This page contains a list of the greatest Czech Historians. The pantheon dataset contains 339 Historians, 6 of which were born in Czechia. This makes Czechia the birth place of the 15th most number of Historians behind Netherlands and Spain.
Top 6
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Czech Historians of all time. This list of famous Czech Historians is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Max Dvořák (1874 - 1921)
With an HPI of 55.52, Max Dvořák is the most famous Czech Historian. His biography has been translated into 20 different languages on wikipedia.
Max Dvořák (4 June 1874 – 8 February 1921) was a Czech-born Austrian art historian. He was a professor of art history at the University of Vienna and a famous member of the Vienna School of Art History, employing a Geistesgeschichte methodology.
2. Sigfried Giedion (1888 - 1968)
With an HPI of 52.38, Sigfried Giedion is the 2nd most famous Czech Historian. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages.
Sigfried Giedion (also spelled Siegfried Giedion; 14 April 1888, Prague – 10 April 1968, Zürich) was a Bohemian-born Swiss historian and critic of architecture. His ideas and books, Space, Time and Architecture, and Mechanization Takes Command, had an important conceptual influence on the members of the Independent Group at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in the 1950s. Giedion was a pupil of Heinrich Wölfflin. He was the first secretary-general of the Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne, and taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, and the ETH-Zurich. In Space, Time & Architecture (1941), Giedion wrote an influential standard history of modern architecture, while Mechanization Takes Command established a new kind of historiography.
3. Saul Friedländer (1932 - )
With an HPI of 51.67, Saul Friedländer is the 3rd most famous Czech Historian. His biography has been translated into 16 different languages.
Saul Friedländer (Hebrew: שאול פרידלנדר; born October 11, 1932) is a Czech-Jewish-born historian and a professor emeritus of history at UCLA.
4. Yehuda Bauer (1926 - )
With an HPI of 48.79, Yehuda Bauer is the 4th most famous Czech Historian. His biography has been translated into 16 different languages.
Yehuda Bauer (Hebrew: יהודה באואר; born April 6, 1926) is a Czech-born Israeli historian and scholar of the Holocaust. He is a professor of Holocaust Studies at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
5. Anton Heinrich Springer (1825 - 1891)
With an HPI of 45.87, Anton Heinrich Springer is the 5th most famous Czech Historian. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages.
Anton Heinrich Springer (13 July 1825 – 31 May 1891) was a German art historian and writer.
6. Zdeněk Nejedlý (1878 - 1962)
With an HPI of 45.24, Zdeněk Nejedlý is the 6th most famous Czech Historian. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages.
Zdeněk Nejedlý (10 February 1878 – 9 March 1962) was a Czech musicologist, historian, music critic, author, and politician whose ideas dominated the cultural life of what is now the Czech Republic for most of the twentieth century. Although he started out merely reviewing operas in Prague newspapers in 1901, by the interwar period his status had risen, guided primarily by socialist and later Communist political views. This combination of left wing politics and cultural leadership made him a central figure in the early years of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic after 1948, where he became the first Minister of Culture and Education. In this position he was responsible for creating a statewide education curriculum, and was associated with the early 1950s expulsion of university professors.
Pantheon has 6 people classified as historians born between 1825 and 1932. Of these 6, 2 (33.33%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living historians include Saul Friedländer and Yehuda Bauer. The most famous deceased historians include Max Dvořák, Sigfried Giedion, and Anton Heinrich Springer. As of April 2022, 3 new historians have been added to Pantheon including Saul Friedländer, Yehuda Bauer, and Zdeněk Nejedlý.
Living Historians
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Max Dvořák
1874 - 1921
HPI: 55.52
Sigfried Giedion
1888 - 1968
HPI: 52.38
Anton Heinrich Springer
1825 - 1891
HPI: 45.87
Zdeněk Nejedlý
1878 - 1962
HPI: 45.24
Newly Added Historians (2022)
Go to all RankingsSaul Friedländer
1932 - Present
HPI: 51.67
Yehuda Bauer
1926 - Present
HPI: 48.79
Zdeněk Nejedlý
1878 - 1962
HPI: 45.24
Which Historians were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 4 most globally memorable Historians since 1700.
