The Most Famous
HISTORIANS from Lithuania
This page contains a list of the greatest Lithuanian Historians. The pantheon dataset contains 339 Historians, 4 of which were born in Lithuania. This makes Lithuania the birth place of the 22nd most number of Historians behind Bulgaria and Iran.
Top 4
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Lithuanian Historians of all time. This list of famous Lithuanian Historians is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Yitzhak Arad (1926 - 2021)
With an HPI of 52.52, Yitzhak Arad is the most famous Lithuanian Historian. His biography has been translated into 16 different languages on wikipedia.
Yitzhak Arad (Hebrew: יצחק ארד; né Icchak Rudnicki; November 11, 1926 – May 6, 2021) was an Israeli historian, author, IDF brigadier general and Soviet partisan. He also served as Yad Vashem's director from 1972 to 1993, and specialised in the history of the Holocaust.
2. Joseph Klausner (1874 - 1958)
With an HPI of 52.10, Joseph Klausner is the 2nd most famous Lithuanian Historian. His biography has been translated into 16 different languages.
Joseph Gedaliah Klausner (Hebrew: יוסף גדליה קלוזנר; 20 August 1874 – 27 October 1958), was a Lithuanian-born Israeli historian and professor of Hebrew literature. He was the chief redactor of the Encyclopedia Hebraica. He was a candidate for president in the first Israeli presidential election in 1949, losing to Chaim Weizmann. Klausner was the great uncle of Israeli author Amos Oz.
3. Bernard Berenson (1865 - 1959)
With an HPI of 50.64, Bernard Berenson is the 3rd most famous Lithuanian Historian. His biography has been translated into 27 different languages.
Bernard Berenson (June 26, 1865 – October 6, 1959) was an American art historian specializing in the Renaissance. His book The Drawings of the Florentine Painters was an international success. His wife Mary is thought to have had a large hand in some of the writings. Berenson was a major figure in the attribution of Old Masters, at a time when these were attracting new interest by American collectors, and his judgments were widely respected in the art world.
4. Donald Kagan (1932 - 2021)
With an HPI of 49.25, Donald Kagan is the 4th most famous Lithuanian Historian. His biography has been translated into 24 different languages.
Donald Kagan (; May 1, 1932 – August 6, 2021) was a Lithuanian-born American historian and classicist at Yale University specializing in ancient Greece. He formerly taught in the Department of History at Cornell University. Kagan was considered among the foremost American scholars of Greek history and is notable for his four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War.
Pantheon has 4 people classified as historians born between 1865 and 1932. Of these 4, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased historians include Yitzhak Arad, Joseph Klausner, and Bernard Berenson. As of April 2022, 2 new historians have been added to Pantheon including Yitzhak Arad and Joseph Klausner.
Deceased Historians
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Yitzhak Arad
1926 - 2021
HPI: 52.52
Joseph Klausner
1874 - 1958
HPI: 52.10
Bernard Berenson
1865 - 1959
HPI: 50.64
Donald Kagan
1932 - 2021
HPI: 49.25
Newly Added Historians (2022)
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