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Charles Homer Haskins

1870 - 1937

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Charles Homer Haskins (December 21, 1870 – May 14, 1937) was an American medievalist at Harvard University. He was an advisor to U.S. President Woodrow Wilson. He is widely recognized as the first academic medieval historian in the United States, and the Haskins Medal was named in his honor. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Homer Haskins is the 459th most popular historian (up from 471st in 2019), the 8,093rd most popular biography from United States (down from 7,962nd in 2019) and the 33rd most popular American Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Charles Homer Haskins ranks 459 out of 561Before him are Hermann Oldenberg, Alain Besançon, Helene Ahrweiler, Lawrence Stone, David Marshall Lang, and Michael Aris. After him are Mary Beard, Aron Gurevich, Anvar Chingizoglu, Eadmer, Mikhail Artamonov, and Herwig Wolfram.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1870, Charles Homer Haskins ranks 142Before him are Sascha Schneider, Frank Norris, Julián Besteiro, Edwin Foster Coddington, DeLisle Stewart, and Lloyd Hildebrand. After him are John Marin, Marcus Loew, Julius Körner, James M. Cox, Karel Kašpar, and Victor Borisov-Musatov. Among people deceased in 1937, Charles Homer Haskins ranks 159Before him are Noel Rosa, Nikolai Klyuev, Nygmet Nurmakov, Mykhaylo Semenko, Yordan Yovkov, and Valerian Pidmohylny. After him are Béla von Kehrling, Juan Artola, Axel Bakunts, Yan Gamarnik, Antônio Parreiras, and Roberto Ferrari.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Charles Homer Haskins ranks 8,095 out of 20,380Before him are Patricia Heaton (1958), Frankie Manning (1914), Travis Barker (1975), Damon Knight (1922), Virgil Jacomini (1899), and Charles Hallahan (1943). After him are Chet Miller (1902), Bernard A. Harris Jr. (1956), Allen Garfield (1939), Gary Merrill (1915), Eric Winter (1976), and Richard Benjamin (1938).

Among HISTORIANS In United States

Among historians born in United States, Charles Homer Haskins ranks 33Before him are Stephen E. Ambrose (1936), Daniel J. Boorstin (1914), Charles A. Beard (1874), Carl Benjamin Boyer (1906), Drew Gilpin Faust (1947), and John King Fairbank (1907). After him are Robert Jay Lifton (1926), Lothrop Stoddard (1883), Stephen F. Cohen (1938), Samuel Eliot Morison (1887), Alfred W. Crosby (1931), and Daniel Pipes (1949).