1892 - 1982
Edward Hallett Carr (28 June 1892 – 3 November 1982) was a British historian, diplomat, journalist and international relations theorist, and an opponent of empiricism within historiography. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of E. H. Carr has received more than 700,516 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). E. H. Carr is the 343rd most popular philosopher (down from 302nd in 2019), the 662nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 549th in 2019) and the 20th most popular British Philosopher.
E. H. Carr is most famous for his book "What is History?" in which he argues that history is the study of the past through the lens of the present. He also argues that history is not the study of facts and events, but rather the study of the meaning of those facts and events.
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Among philosophers, E. H. Carr ranks 343 out of 1,081. Before him are Jacques Rancière, Edgar Morin, Martianus Capella, Strato of Lampsacus, Lev Shestov, and Yi I. After him are Wang Yangming, Hermann Cohen, Pietro Pomponazzi, Richard Rorty, Daniel Dennett, and Judith Butler.
1940 - Present
HPI: 62.83
Rank: 337
1921 - Present
HPI: 62.80
Rank: 338
360 - 428
HPI: 62.67
Rank: 339
335 BC - 269 BC
HPI: 62.63
Rank: 340
1866 - 1938
HPI: 62.51
Rank: 341
1536 - 1584
HPI: 62.50
Rank: 342
1892 - 1982
HPI: 62.49
Rank: 343
1472 - 1529
HPI: 62.45
Rank: 344
1842 - 1918
HPI: 62.42
Rank: 345
1462 - 1525
HPI: 62.40
Rank: 346
1931 - 2007
HPI: 62.40
Rank: 347
1942 - Present
HPI: 62.39
Rank: 348
1956 - Present
HPI: 62.36
Rank: 349
Among people born in 1892, E. H. Carr ranks 46. Before him are Corneille Heymans, Bruno Schulz, Alexandre Koyré, Władysław Anders, Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet, and Bolesław Bierut. After him are Nikolai Kondratiev, V. Gordon Childe, Oswald Pohl, Mary Pickford, Margaret Rutherford, and Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria. Among people deceased in 1982, E. H. Carr ranks 43. Before him are Władysław Gomułka, Thelonious Monk, Jiro Horikoshi, Walther Wenck, Lee Strasberg, and Peter Weiss. After him are William Giauque, Varlam Shalamov, Gershom Scholem, Walter Hallstein, Anna German, and Hermann Balck.
1892 - 1968
HPI: 64.33
Rank: 40
1892 - 1942
HPI: 63.54
Rank: 41
1892 - 1964
HPI: 63.23
Rank: 42
1892 - 1970
HPI: 62.85
Rank: 43
1892 - 1984
HPI: 62.72
Rank: 44
1892 - 1956
HPI: 62.61
Rank: 45
1892 - 1982
HPI: 62.49
Rank: 46
1892 - 1938
HPI: 62.44
Rank: 47
1892 - 1957
HPI: 62.30
Rank: 48
1892 - 1951
HPI: 62.08
Rank: 49
1892 - 1979
HPI: 61.77
Rank: 50
1892 - 1972
HPI: 61.65
Rank: 51
1892 - 1930
HPI: 61.40
Rank: 52
1905 - 1982
HPI: 63.54
Rank: 37
1917 - 1982
HPI: 63.11
Rank: 38
1903 - 1982
HPI: 62.81
Rank: 39
1900 - 1982
HPI: 62.81
Rank: 40
1901 - 1982
HPI: 62.77
Rank: 41
1916 - 1982
HPI: 62.72
Rank: 42
1892 - 1982
HPI: 62.49
Rank: 43
1895 - 1982
HPI: 62.45
Rank: 44
1907 - 1982
HPI: 62.08
Rank: 45
1897 - 1982
HPI: 61.60
Rank: 46
1901 - 1982
HPI: 61.44
Rank: 47
1936 - 1982
HPI: 61.42
Rank: 48
1893 - 1982
HPI: 61.36
Rank: 49
Among people born in United Kingdom, E. H. Carr ranks 662 out of 7,765. Before him are Stanley Rous (1895), William Jones (1746), Jane Hawking (1944), Nigel Farage (1964), Bernard Lewis (1916), and Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (1864). After him are William Pitt the Younger (1759), Arthur Harden (1865), Philip Pullman (1946), Oliver Heaviside (1850), Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury (1473), and Robert Carlyle (1961).
1895 - 1986
HPI: 62.56
Rank: 656
1746 - 1794
HPI: 62.55
Rank: 657
1944 - Present
HPI: 62.54
Rank: 658
1964 - Present
HPI: 62.54
Rank: 659
1916 - 2018
HPI: 62.52
Rank: 660
1864 - 1892
HPI: 62.51
Rank: 661
1892 - 1982
HPI: 62.49
Rank: 662
1759 - 1806
HPI: 62.48
Rank: 663
1865 - 1940
HPI: 62.47
Rank: 664
1946 - Present
HPI: 62.45
Rank: 665
1850 - 1925
HPI: 62.41
Rank: 666
1473 - 1541
HPI: 62.41
Rank: 667
1961 - Present
HPI: 62.40
Rank: 668
Among philosophers born in United Kingdom, E. H. Carr ranks 20. Before him are Pelagius (360), Thomas Carlyle (1795), William Godwin (1756), G. E. Moore (1873), Houston Stewart Chamberlain (1855), and A. S. Neill (1883). After him are J. L. Austin (1911), H. L. A. Hart (1907), John of Salisbury (1110), Francis Hutcheson (1694), Paul Grice (1913), and Alan Watts (1915).
360 - 420
HPI: 66.67
Rank: 14
1795 - 1881
HPI: 66.04
Rank: 15
1756 - 1836
HPI: 64.89
Rank: 16
1873 - 1958
HPI: 64.68
Rank: 17
1855 - 1927
HPI: 64.63
Rank: 18
1883 - 1973
HPI: 64.32
Rank: 19
1892 - 1982
HPI: 62.49
Rank: 20
1911 - 1960
HPI: 62.36
Rank: 21
1907 - 1992
HPI: 61.78
Rank: 22
1110 - 1180
HPI: 61.23
Rank: 23
1694 - 1746
HPI: 60.89
Rank: 24
1913 - 1988
HPI: 60.71
Rank: 25
1915 - 1973
HPI: 59.79
Rank: 26