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Clue	Historian	% Correct
Ancient Greece historian, often referred to as "The Father of History"	Herodotus	82%
19th century German philosopher, economist, political theorist, sociologist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist; acclaimed among historians for "The 18th Brumaire of Louis Napoleon"	Karl Marx	72%
18th century British historian and MP, author of the monumental "History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"	Edward Gibbon	60%
British Marxist historian, best-known for the "Age of Extremes" and his trilogy regarding the "long 19th century"	Eric Hobsbawm	56%
Leading figure of the Annales School 2nd generation, emphasized the role of large-scale socioeconomic factors in history	Fernand Braudel	52%
Athenian historian, reporter of the late 5th century BCE war that resulted in a Sparta triumph	Thucydides	52%
Roman senator and historian, whose major works examine the reigns of emperors Tiberius, Claudius, Nero, and those who reigned in the Year of the Four Emperors (CE 69)	Tacitus	48%
Roman historian, author of a monumental history of Rome, that covered since its foundations to the first years of the Empire	Titus Livius	48%
19th century German historian, pioneer of empirical history, based on primary sources	Leopold von Ranke	46%
20th century British Marxist historian, best-known for his historical work on the British radical movements in the late 18th and early 19th centuries	E. P. Thompson	38%
American historians couple, authors of the 11-volume "The Story of Civilization", Pulitzer Prize laureates and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients	Ariel and William Durant	32%
Co-founder of the Annales School, this French historian served the Resistance and was executed by Nazis in 1944	Marc Bloch	30%
Greek historian of the Hellenistic period, whose work covered the sack of Carthage (146 BCE) and Rome's flourishing domain over the Mediterranean	Polybius	30%
Founded the Annales School alongside the above	Lucien Febvre	28%
Famous 20th century British historian, author of the acclaimed 12-volume "A Study of History"	Arnold J. Toynbee	26%
German Jewish philosopher, cultural critic and essayist. An eclectic thinker, that combined elements of German idealism, Romanticism, Western Marxism and Jewish mysticism	Walter Benjamin	26%
19th century German intellectual, Nobel Prize laureate and author of "A History of Rome"	Theodor Mommsen	20%
British historian, specialist in intellectual history, and often identified with the post-1956 Western Marxism of the New Left	Perry Anderson	18%
Pope famous for his "Dialogues", most notably, one regarding St. Benedict's life	Saint Gregory the Great	18%
Annales School 3rd generation medievalist and leading figure of the New History movement	Jacques Le Goff	16%
British Marxist historian and academic, specialist in 17th century English history	Christopher Hill	14%
Annales School 2nd generation historian, specialized in the social and economic history of the Middle Ages	Georges Duby	12%
Austrian historian, widely considered to be the pre-eminent scholar of the Holocaust, and author of the seminal study "The Destruction of the European Jews"	Raul Hilberg	12%
Irish historian, best-known for his works in the Late Antiquity field	Peter Brown	10%
American historian, Nobel Prize laureate, and co-author of the controversial "Time on the Cross"	Robert Fogel	10%
German journalist, critic and editor, renowned by his monumental biographical work on Adolf Hitler	Joachim Fest	8%
19th century French historian, famous for his 19-volume "History of France", that covered since the early Frankish period to the Revolution	Jules Michelet	8%
British historian who specialized in 19th and 20th century European diplomacy, best-known for his contributions as journalist and broadcaster	A. J. P. Taylor	6%
19th century German historian, pioneer of the school of historical thought that idealized power held by so-called "great" men.	Johann Gustav Droysen	4%
Annales School 2nd geneartion historian, specialist in Latin American history	Pierre Chaunu	4%
Annales School 4th generation leader, specialist in the history of books, publishing and reading	Roger Chartier	4%
Annales School 2nd generation historian, pioneer in the study of the economic history of the early modern period	Henri Hauser	0%