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2 years ago in Historiography , Intellectual History By Akash
In historiography, who are universally regarded as the foundational figures of both ancient and modern historical writing, and what exactly did each contribute to the craft?
I'm preparing a lecture on the origins of historical writing and need to clearly distinguish the foundational contributions. For antiquity, I assume Herodotus and Thucydides are central, but what did each do that was genuinely new? For the modern era, who actually established history as a professional, critical discipline—is it Leopold von Ranke, or are there other key figures like Barthold Niebuhr or Thucydides' later interpreters? I need a concise, authoritative breakdown of their seminal contributions.
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