* Averil Cameron ( professor at King's College and Oxford ) and Stuart Hall ( historian and theologian ), in their recent translation of the Life of Constantine, point out that writers such as Burckhardt found it necessary to attack Eusebius in order to undermine the ideological legitimacy of the Habsburg empire, which based itself on the idea of Christian empire derived from Constantine, and that the most controversial letter in the Life has since been found among the papyri of Egypt.

Another living member of the family is Nikolai Tolstoy-Miloslavsky ( born in 1935 ), a controversial British historian.

His uncompromising stances on certain historical and calendrical issues led to Zhang being considered a controversial figure, which prevented him from becoming an official court historian.

According to historian and former Special Assistant to President Kennedy Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Rusk was not Kennedy's first choice, but rather the " lowest common denominator ", as Kennedy's first choice, J. William Fulbright, proved too controversial.

The description of Irving as a historian, rather than a historical author, is controversial, with some publications continuing to refer to him as a " historian " or " disgraced historian ", while others insist he is not a historian, and have adopted alternatives such as " author " or " historic writer ".

These changes in the church's practices and beliefs were very controversial, leading to the formation of breakaway churches such as the Remnant Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints ; in 1994, former church historian Richard P. Howard estimated that 25, 000 members had left to join such groups.

Comics historian Maurice Horn said the strip " did not shrink from tackling controversial problems, such as heroin addiction, illegitimate pregnancy, and attempted suicide.

While a Cabinet Office official historian he co-authored a controversial official history of the RAF strategic air campaign against Germany.

In the last days of his President mandate, he awarded the National Order Steaua României ( rank of ceremonial knighthood ) to the ultra-nationalist controversial politician Corneliu Vadim Tudor, a gesture which drew criticism in the press and prompted Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel, fifteen Radio Free Europe journalists, Timișoara mayor Gheorghe Ciuhandu, song writer Alexandru Andrieș, and historian Randolph Braham to return their Romanian honours in protest.

* October 13-Stephen Ambrose, controversial historian and biographer, 66

* January 10-Stephen Ambrose, controversial historian ( died 2002 )

As a religious teacher, literary critic, historian and jurist, Harrison took a prominent part in the life of his time, and his writings, though often violently controversial on political, religious and social subjects, and in their judgment and historical perspective characterized by a modern Radical point of view, are those of an accomplished scholar, and of one whose wide knowledge of literature was combined with independence of thought and admirable vigour of style.

* Brute Force ( book ), a controversial work by historian John Ellis

The concept — invented by German historian Wilhelm Roscher in 1847 — remains controversial among scholars.

In 2007, Israeli military historian Uri Milstein published a controversial book, Blood Libel at Deir Yassin in which he claims that the events of Deir Yassin were before all the result of a battle and not of a massacre.

Instances of this view can be found in both his campaign for Franco-Ontarian rights as well as his ardent opposition to controversial priest and historian Lionel Groulx in the 1920s following Groulx's musing on the possibility and desirability of a separate Quebec state.

According to historian and former Special Assistant to President Kennedy Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Fulbright was Kennedy's first choice as Secretary of State, but it was felt he was too controversial.

Subsequently, the historian published two essays with additional findings and analysis ( Maechler, 2001b, 2002 ), while Ganzfried ( 2002 ) published his own controversial version of the case ( s. Oels, 2004 ; Maechler, 2002 ).

Because of its use by " Rise, O Voices of Rhodesia ", the " Ode to Joy " melody is controversial in Zimbabwe, where its annual playing at foreign embassies on Europe Day initially caused shock to Zimbabwean government officials who, according to historian Josephine Fisher, had not previously been aware of the song's use by the Council of Europe.

Other controversial aspects were his alleged favoritism and nepotism: perceived as the central figure of an academic clique, Iorga helped Gheorghe Bogdan-Duică's family and Pârvan, promoted young historian Andrei Oţetea, and made his son in law Colonel Chirescu ( m. Florica Iorga in 1918 ) a Prefect of Storojineţ County.

Gitta Sereny, CBE ( 13 March 192114 June 2012 ) was an Austrian-born biographer, historian and investigative journalist who came to be known for her interviews and profiles of controversial figures, including Mary Bell, who was convicted in 1968 of killing two children when she herself was a child, and Franz Stangl, the commandant of the Treblinka extermination camp.

Within philosophy familiar names include Daniel Dennett who writes from a computational systems perspective, John Searle known for his controversial Chinese room, Jerry Fodor who advocates functionalism, and Douglas Hofstadter, famous for writing Gödel, Escher, Bach, which questions the nature of words and thought.

In the present day, Langford's daughter Catherine offers Egyptologist Daniel Jackson, a down-on-his-luck linguistics professor, the chance to translate ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs that may prove his controversial theory regarding the Pyramid of Khufu.

In 2011, Müller-Maguhn was criticized for his role in the CCC board's controversial decision to expel former Wikileaks spokesman Daniel Domscheit-Berg, which was often attributed to Müller-Maguhn's close relation to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and an ongoing conflict between Assange and Domscheit-Berg.

* September 17 – September 22 – The fourth annual Swansea Festival of Music and the Arts opens in Swansea, Wales, with a controversial speech by one of Wales's leading composers, Daniel Jones.

The following year, Bana co-starred with Daniel Craig and Geoffrey Rush in Steven Spielberg's controversial film Munich.

Daniel Goldhagen, Harvard scholar and author of the controversial Hitler's Willing Executioners, argues that philosemites are often closet anti-Semites.

In reaction to the riots of May 1968, in a controversial article published in the party-paper L ' Humanité, Marchais showed his contempt for Daniel Cohn-Bendit by calling him a German anarchist.

* the most controversial quotation is a reference to the Daniel Libeskind's Jewish Museum Berlin, Germany which opened in 1999

* The controversial jíbaro song, " Joven contra viejo ", featured Lavoe and Daniel Santos settling their age-based differences on-stage not without a heavy dose of humor and ( yet again ) Yomo Toro's cuatro music as a backdrop.

Another Irish cleric, Archbishop Daniel Mannix ( 1864 – 1963 ) of Melbourne, who was a controversial voice against conscription during World War I and against British Empire policy in Ireland.

Archbishop Daniel Mannix of Melbourne was a controversial voice against conscription during World War I and against British policy in Ireland.

Archbishop Daniel Mannix of Melbourne was a controversial voice against conscription during World War I and against British policy in Ireland.

* In December 2006 a majority vote of the CJLS ( 13 members for, 12 against ) accepted a controversial responsum which allows homosexual Jews to become rabbis and cantors, " Homosexuality, Human Dignity, and Halakhah " by Rabbis Elliot N. Dorff, Daniel S. Nevins, and Avram I. Reisner.

Then the young new manager and former player Stanimir Stoilov organized a team of Levski's academy products Zhivko Milanov, Milan Koprivarov and Valeri Domovchiyski, the experienced Elin Topuzakov, Georgi Petkov, Stanislav Angelov and Dimitar Telkiyski, the fans ' favorites Hristo Yovov, Daniel Borimirov and Georgi Ivanov, who came back after spending time abroad, reached the quarterfinal stage of the UEFA Cup, knocking out AJ Auxerre, winnings against Olympique de Marseille, Dinamo Bucharest and finishing ahead of the reigning title holder CSKA Moscow in the group stage, triumphing over Champions League participants Artmedia Bratislava and Udinese Calcio, before being knocked out by Schalke 04 in a controversial tie.

Director John Schlesinger cast him as a replacement for Alan Bates in the part of well-off homosexual doctor Daniel Hirsh in his controversial film Sunday Bloody Sunday ( 1971 ), after Bates was deemed unavailable to shoot.

Despite this momentum, in a controversial move, Daniel Snyder, the owner of the Redskins, fired Schottenheimer on January 13, 2002 after just one 8 – 8 season to make room for former University of Florida head coach Steve Spurrier, under whom Washington went 12-20 in the next two seasons, with his best season being 7-9 in 2002.

More recently, he played an Italian-American priest in the controversial and quickly cancelled NBC series The Book of Daniel.

After working as script editor for The View From Daniel Pike ( 1971 ), Sutherland's Law ( 1973 ), Z-Cars ( 1975 – 1976 ) and Barlow at Large ( 1975 ), he was encouraged by his friend Bill Slater, then BBC Head of Serials, to move to producership and was eventually charged with taking over Doctor Who after Philip Hinchcliffe's highly successful but controversial spell in charge of the series.

Daniel Whitby ( 1638 – 1726 ) was a controversial English theologian and biblical commentator.

In the 1990s, Stern was a leading critic of the controversial American author Daniel Goldhagen, whose book Hitler's Willing Executioners Stern denounced as unscholarly and full of Germanophobia.

In 2003, he praised Daniel Goldhagen's controversial book, A Moral Reckoning.

Also controversial tracts against Willis ( 1705 ), Sherlock ( 1707 ), Bennet ( 1718 ), Tong and others ( 1719 ), Trosse ( 1719 ), and Daniel Waterland ( 1731 ).