List of Historian from countries other than India

Are you passionate about History? Here is list of noted historians from countries other than India.

Historians of the Ancient Period
•    Herodotus, (484 – c. 420 BC), Halicarnassus, "Father of History"
•    Thucydides, (460 – c. 400 BC), Peloponnesian War
•    Berossus, (early 3rd century BC), Babylonian historian
•    Xenophon, (431 – c. 360 BC), an Athenian knight and student of Socrates
•    Ptolemy I Soter (367 BC — c. 283 BC), General of Alexander the Great, Founder of Ptolemaic Dynasty.

Noted Indian Historians

Are you passionate about Historians? Definitely you will like to know some successful personalities in this discipline. Here is the list of Noted Indian Historians

    * A. K. Narain

    * Aarudhra

    * Acharya Hemachandra

    * Aijaz Ahmad

    * Amiya Kumar Bagchi

History as study discipline

History is a branch of knowledge in which we study about events that taken place in the past. The word ‘History’ comes from Greek Word Historia meaning inquiry i.e. the knowledge gained from investigations. Aristotle used the word in his Peri Ta Zoa Istória ~ in Latin – Historia Animalium. The term is devised from hístōr means wise man, witness, or judge. In late 16th Century Francis Bacon used the term when he wrote “Natural History”. In words of  Francis Bacon historia was "the knowledge of objects determined by space and time". In 1390 the word “History” meaning "relation of incidents, story" find the place in English Language. In Middle English the meaning of “History” was “story”.  The adjective “historical’ taken into practice in 1661 and “historic” in 1669.