The Most Famous
HISTORIANS from New Zealand
This page contains a list of the greatest New Zealander Historians. The pantheon dataset contains 339 Historians, 1 of which were born in New Zealand. This makes New Zealand the birth place of the 56th most number of Historians behind Cuba and Finland.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary New Zealander Historians of all time. This list of famous New Zealander Historians is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Ronald Syme (1903 - 1989)
With an HPI of 47.25, Ronald Syme is the most famous New Zealander Historian. His biography has been translated into 18 different languages on wikipedia.
Sir Ronald Syme, (11 March 1903 – 4 September 1989) was a New Zealand-born historian and classicist. He was regarded as the greatest historian of ancient Rome since Theodor Mommsen and the most brilliant exponent of the history of the Roman Empire since Edward Gibbon. His great work was The Roman Revolution (1939), a masterly and controversial analysis of Roman political life in the period following the assassination of Julius Caesar.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as historians born between 1903 and 1903. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased historians include Ronald Syme.
