HISTORIANS from Lithuania

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. Joseph Klausner (1874 - 1958)

With an HPI of 55.04, Joseph Klausner is the most famous Lithuanian Historian.  His biography has been translated into 18 different languages on wikipedia.

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.

2. Bernard Berenson (1865 - 1959)

With an HPI of 53.12, Bernard Berenson is the 2nd 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.

3. Yitzhak Arad (1926 - 2021)

With an HPI of 52.24, Yitzhak Arad is the 3rd most famous Lithuanian Historian.  His biography has been translated into 17 different languages.

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.

4. Donald Kagan (1932 - 2021)

With an HPI of 49.15, Donald Kagan is the 4th most famous Lithuanian Historian.  His biography has been translated into 26 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.