The Most Famous
HISTORIANS from Portugal
This page contains a list of the greatest Portuguese Historians. The pantheon dataset contains 339 Historians, 1 of which were born in Portugal. This makes Portugal the birth place of the 51st most number of Historians behind Sudan and Japan.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Portuguese Historians of all time. This list of famous Portuguese Historians is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Fernão Lopes (1385 - 1458)
With an HPI of 49.20, Fernão Lopes is the most famous Portuguese Historian. His biography has been translated into 16 different languages on wikipedia.
Fernão Lopes (Portuguese pronunciation: [fɨɾˈnɐ̃w ˈlɔpɨʃ]; c. 1385 – after 1459) was a Portuguese chronicler appointed by King Edward of Portugal. Fernão Lopes wrote the history of Portugal, but only a part of his work remained. His way of writing was based on oral discourse, and, on every page, it revealed his roots among the common people. He is one of the fathers of the European historiography, or a precursor of the scientific historiography, basing his works always on the documental proof, and, as he said, on his pages "one cannot find the beauty of words but the nudity of the truth." He was an autodidact. By the time of his death, a new kind of knowledge was arising, a Latinized scholasticism that involved imitations of the classics.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as historians born between 1385 and 1385. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased historians include Fernão Lopes. As of April 2022, 1 new historians have been added to Pantheon including Fernão Lopes.
