Historian

Arnold J. Toynbee

British historian

1889 - 1975

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His biography is available in 58 different languages on Wikipedia. Arnold J. Toynbee is the 26th most popular historian (down from 20th in 2024), the 335th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 194th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular British Historian.

Arnold J. Toynbee is most famous for his 12-volume work, A Study of History, which is a detailed analysis of the rise and fall of civilizations.

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Among Historians

Among historians, Arnold J. Toynbee ranks 26 out of 561Before him are Manetho, William of Tyre, Leopold von Ranke, Arrian, Fernand Braudel, and Joannes Zonaras. After him are Bede, Johan Huizinga, Ibn Kathir, Edward Gibbon, Jacob Burckhardt, and Saxo Grammaticus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Arnold J. Toynbee ranks 15Before him are Edwin Hubble, Philip Noel-Baker, Paul Karrer, Ante Pavelić, Anna Akhmatova, and Vaslav Nijinsky. After him are Igor Sikorsky, Thomas Midgley Jr., Manuel II of Portugal, Claude Rains, Gabriela Mistral, and Idris of Libya. Among people deceased in 1975, Arnold J. Toynbee ranks 17Before him are Robert Robinson, Otto Skorzeny, Josephine Baker, Gustav Ludwig Hertz, Edward Tatum, and Mikhail Bakhtin. After him are George Paget Thomson, Saint-John Perse, Josemaría Escrivá, Graham Hill, Paul Keres, and Jimmy Hoffa.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Arnold J. Toynbee ranks 335 out of NaNBefore him are Edmund Ironside (993), James Connolly (1868), Jeremy Irons (1948), Claude Auchinleck (1884), John Herschel (1792), and Roald Dahl (1916). After him are Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York (1473), Benjamin Disraeli (1804), John Keats (1795), Bede (672), John Davis (1550), and Jane Hawking (1944).

Among Historians In United Kingdom

Among historians born in United Kingdom, Arnold J. Toynbee ranks 2Before him are Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800). After him are Bede (672), Edward Gibbon (1737), Bernard Lewis (1916), Kenneth Clark (1903), Frances Yates (1899), Arnold Toynbee (1852), W. Montgomery Watt (1909), Peter Burke (1937), Henry Thomas Buckle (1821), and Norman Davies (1939).

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