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Also Known As Olaf Mansson
Born October 1490 • Linköping • Sweden
Died August 1, 1557 (aged 66) • Rome • Italy
Subjects Of Study Scandinavia
Dalin
Olof von Dalin
Swedish author
Geijer, detail of an oil painting by J.G. Sandberg, 1828; in the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm
Erik Gustaf Geijer
Swedish author
Harald Gabriel Hjärne
Swedish politician
Magnus, Johannes
Johannes Magnus
Swedish archbishop
Hendrik Willem Van Loon
American historian and illustrator
Karl Marx
Karl Marx
German philosopher
Niccolò Machiavelli
Niccolò Machiavelli
Italian statesman and writer
David Hume
David Hume
Scottish philosopher
Thucydides manuscript, 3rd century bc (Hamburg, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, P. Hamburg 163).
Thucydides
Greek historian
Ibn Khaldūn
Ibn Khaldūn
Muslim historian
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German philosopher and mathematician
Tacitus
Tacitus
Roman historian
Xenophon, statue in front of the parliament building in Vienna.
Xenophon
Greek historian
Edward Gibbon
Edward Gibbon
British historian
Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville
French historian and political writer
Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle
British essayist and historian
Herodotus, detail of a Roman herm probably copied from a Greek original of the first half of the 4th century bce; in the National Archaeological Museum, Naples.
Herodotus
Greek historian
Thomas Babington Macaulay, detail of an oil painting by J. Partridge, 1840; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
English politician and author
Livy
Livy
Roman historian
Leopold Ranke
Leopold von Ranke
German historian

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