Under Schechter's leadership, JTS attracted a distinguished faculty, including Louis Ginzberg ( author of Legends of the Jews ), historian Alexander Marx, Arabist Israel Friedlander, and future founder of Reconstructionism Mordecai Kaplan, and became a highly regarded center of Jewish learning.

Other names connected to the city include Max Born, physicist and Nobel laureate ; Charles Darwin, the biologist who discovered natural selection ; David Hume, a philosopher, economist and historian ; James Hutton, regarded as the " Father of Geology "; John Napier inventor of logarithms ; chemist and one of the founders of thermodynamics Joseph Black ; pioneering medical researchers Joseph Lister and James Young Simpson ; chemist and discoverer of the element nitrogen, Daniel Rutherford ; mathematician and developer of the Maclaurin series, Colin Maclaurin and Ian Wilmut, the geneticist involved in the cloning of Dolly the sheep just outside Edinburgh.

In the 19th century Jacob Burckhardt viewed Eusebius as ' a liar ', the “ first thoroughly dishonest historian of antiquity .” Ramsay MacMullen in the 20th century regarded Eusebius's work as representative of early Christian historical accounts in which “ Hostile writings and discarded views were not recopied or passed on, or they were actively suppressed ..., matters discreditable to the faith were to be consigned to silence .” As a consequence this kind of methodology in MacMullens view has distorted modern attempts, ( e. g. Harnack, Nock, and Brady ), to describe how the Church grew in the early centuries.

A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it.

The historian Clinton Rossiter regarded Madison's performance as " a combination of learning, experience, purpose, and imagination that not even Adams or Jefferson could have equaled.

Historian Ronald Numbers has been quoted as saying: " I can't say much about Gould's strengths as a scientist, but for a long time I've regarded him as the second most influential historian of science ( next to Thomas Kuhn ).

He was given a strongly positive assessment by the historian Bede, writing a little less than a century after Oswald's death, who regarded Oswald as a saintly king ; it is also Bede who is the main source for present-day historical knowledge of Oswald.

The historian George Herring has said that while the purchase was somewhat the result of Jefferson and Madison's " shrewd and sometimes belligerent diplomacy ", that it " is often and rightly regarded as a diplomatic windfall — the result of accident, luck, and the whim of Napoleon Bonaparte.

The 12th century Quadripartitus, in an account regarded as convincing by historian John Maddicott, states that he was recalled by the intervention of Bishop Ælfwine of Winchester and Earl Godwin.

He was also a noted Caribbean historian, and is widely regarded as " The Father of The Nation.

His short rule was regarded as a virtuous one by the historian Frodoard.

The period between the fourteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth century was largely one of decline and neglect, and is regarded as barren by at least one historian of logic.

However, Bede ’ s accuracy as a historian has been well regarded by Anglo-Saxon scholars, and historians have generally been comfortable following Bede's basic presentation of the synod.

This view has been supported by the historian Edward Corp, who has concluded, " there is now enough evidence available to suggest that Lord Burlington can no longer be regarded as the embodiment of a Whig ideal.

Long associated with Oxford University, he is widely regarded as the 20th century's greatest historian of ancient Rome.

In 1963, historian Jacob Cooke, an editor of Hamilton's papers, regarded this charge as " preposterous ", calling it a " conspiracy thesis " that overstated Hamilton's control of the federal government.

He is regarded by some, including historian Keith Sinclair, as one of New Zealand's greatest political leaders.

The author at once became highly regarded as a theologian and historian, and in 1839 was invited to Kiel as professor ordinarius.

The British naval historian William Laird Clowes regarded Macdonough's False Nile victory as " a most notable feat, one which, on the whole, surpassed that of any other captain of either navy in this war.

" In relation to her ( possible ) conception and patronage of the highly regarded historical artist Carle Van Loo's painting, Une Conversation the historian Emma Barker writes, " most recent commentators have agreed in locating the interest and significance of these works in their having been commissioned by an exceptional female patron, the hostess of a celebrated Parisian salon whose guests included some of the leading figures of the French Enlightenment.

A. S. Altekar, a historian and archaeologist, who has written several books on Gupta coinage, also regarded the caste of the Guptas as Vaish on the basis of the ancient Indian texts on law, which prescribe the name-ending with Gupta for a member of the Vaish caste.

He may be regarded as a courtly annalist rather than an historian.

Frederic William Maitland ( 28 May 1850 – 19 December 1906 ) was an English jurist and historian, generally regarded as the modern father of English legal history.

The historian Margaret Lavinia Anderson notes that after the War, Ludendorff wanted Germany to go to war against all of Europe, and that he became a pagan worshipper of the Nordic god Wotan ; he detested not only Jews but also Christianity, which he regarded as a weakening force.

A. S. Altekar, a historian and archaeologist, who has written and several books on Gupta coinage, also regarded the caste of the Guptas as Vaishya on the basis of the ancient Indian texts on law, which prescribe the name-ending with Gupta for a member of the Vaishya caste.

" Austrian historian Ernst Stein praised Ammianus as " the greatest literary genius that the world produced between Tacitus and Dante ".

Sir Herbert Baker's rebuilding of the Bank of England, demolishing most of Sir John Soane's earlier building was described by architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner as " the greatest architectural crime, in the City of London, of the twentieth century ".

Sociological historian Holger Herwig found in studying German explanations for the origins of World War I, " Those events that are most important are hardest to understand, because they attract the greatest attention from myth makers and charlatans.

Military historian Theodore Ayrault Dodge once famously called Hannibal the " father of strategy ", because his greatest enemy, Rome, came to adopt elements of his military tactics in its own strategic arsenal.

One chronicler had not seen " a siege so hard pressed or so strongly resisted ", whilst historian Reginald Brown describes it as " one of the greatest operations in England up to that time ".

Based on his accurate description of towns, cities and islands, as well as correctly naming various official titles, archaeologist Sir William Ramsay wrote that " Luke is a historian of the first rank ; not merely are his statements of fact trustworthy ... should be placed along with the very greatest of historians.

Roy Jenkins is often seen as responsible for the most wide-ranging social reforms of the late 1960s, with popular historian Andrew Marr claiming ' the greatest changes of the Labour years ' were thanks to Jenkins.

Tertullian's writings cover the whole theological field of the time — apologetics against paganism and Judaism, polemics, polity, discipline, and morals, or the whole reorganization of human life on a Christian basis ; they gave a picture of the religious life and thought of the time which is of the greatest interest to the church historian.

** Indianapolis 500: In what Indianapolis Motor Speedway historian Donald Davidson and Speedway public address announcer Tom Carnegie later call the greatest moment in the track's history, 1973 winner Gordon Johncock wins his second race over 1979 winner Rick Mears by 0. 16 seconds, the closest finish to that date, after Mears draws alongside Johncock with a lap remaining, after erasing a seemingly insurmountable advantage of more than 11 seconds in the final 10 laps.

" Christopher Tyerman calls him " the historian's historian ", and " the greatest crusade historian of all ," and Bernard Hamilton says he " is justly considered one of the finest historians of the Middle Ages ".

As a warrior he was so successful that one modern military historian has described him as the greatest general in English history.

In London in 1906, Sir George Sydenham Clarke wrote, " The battle of Tsu-shima is by far the greatest and the most important naval event since Trafalgar "; decades later, historian Edmund Morris maintained that it remained the greatest naval battle since Trafalgar.

According to Mission historian Brother Guire Cleary, the early 19th century saw the greatest period of activity at San Francisco de Asís:

John Cawte Beaglehole, OM, CMG ( 13 June 1901 – 10 October 1971 ) was a New Zealand historian whose greatest scholastic achievement was the editing of James Cook ’ s three journals of exploration, together with the writing of an acclaimed biography of Cook, published posthumously.

He has been called " one of the greatest anarchist thinkers of the past half century, and a pioneering social historian.

" In 2002, Hobsbawm was described by right-leaning magazine The Spectator as " arguably our greatest living historian — not only Britain's, but the world's ", while Niall Ferguson wrote: " That Hobsbawm is one of the great historians of his generation is undeniable.

14th century Muslim historian Ibn Khaldun states: "` Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan is one of the greatest Arab and Muslim Caliphs.

According to the Byzantine historian Procopius, " From the start, Yazdegerd was a sovereign whose nobility of character had won for him the greatest renown.

One 18th-century historian of the county Samuel Robinson noted that ‘ the greatest number of houses were of a homely character, thatched and one storey high ’.

The whole campaign, which historian John Lynn describes as one of the greatest examples of marching and fighting before Napoleon, had been a model of planning, logistics, tactical and operational skill, the successful outcome of which had altered the course of the conflict – Bavaria was knocked out of the war, and Louis XIV's hopes of an early victory were destroyed.

According to a computer display in the episode " In a Mirror, Darkly ", historian John Gill considered Archer " the greatest explorer of the 22nd century.

In 1971, Nat Fleischer, perhaps boxing's most famous historian and also editor and founder of Ring magazine, named Marciano as the all-time 10th greatest Heavyweight Champion.