The Most Famous
HISTORIANS from Kazakhstan
This page contains a list of the greatest Kazakhstani Historians. The pantheon dataset contains 339 Historians, 1 of which were born in Kazakhstan. This makes Kazakhstan the birth place of the 39th most number of Historians behind South Africa and Tunisia.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Kazakhstani Historians of all time. This list of famous Kazakhstani Historians is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Shoqan Walikhanov (1835 - 1865)
With an HPI of 59.88, Shoqan Walikhanov is the most famous Kazakhstani Historian. His biography has been translated into 27 different languages on wikipedia.
Shokan Shyngysuly Walikhanov (Kazakh: Шоқан Шыңғысұлы Уәлихан, romanized: Shoqan Shyñğysūly Uälikhan, Russian: Чокан Чингисович Валиханов), given name Mukhammed Kanafiya (Kazakh: Мұхаммед Қанафия, romanized: Mūkhammed Qanafiya) (November 1835 – April 10, 1865) was a Kazakh scholar, ethnographer, historian and participant in the Great Game. He is regarded as the father of modern Kazakh historiography and ethnography. The Kazakh Academy of Sciences became the Ch.Ch. Valikhanov Kazakh Academy of Sciences in 1960. English-language texts sometimes give his name as "Chokan Valikhanov", based on a transliteration of the Russian spelling that he used himself.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as historians born between 1835 and 1835. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased historians include Shoqan Walikhanov.
