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Timothy D. Snyder

1969 - Today

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Timothy David Snyder (born August 18, 1969) is an American historian specializing in the history of Central and Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and the Holocaust. He is on leave from his position as the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University (as of 2025), with plans (as of 1 July 2025) to transfer to the University of Toronto for an indefinite time. He is a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. Snyder serves on the Committee on Conscience of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Timothy D. Snyder is the 136th most popular historian (up from 339th in 2019), the 2,582nd most popular biography from United States (up from 5,267th in 2019) and the 8th most popular American Historian.

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Among historians, Timothy D. Snyder ranks 136 out of 561. Before him are Richard Sennett, Golo Mann, John Kinnamos, Philostorgius, Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme, and Barbara W. Tuchman. After him are Ibn Hibban, Heinrich von Treitschke, William H. McNeill, Vladimir Minorsky, Hieronymus Wolf, and Michael Attaleiates.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1969, Timothy D. Snyder ranks 56. Before him are Tiësto, Vítor Baía, Steve McQueen, Sahra Wagenknecht, Hong Myung-bo, and Darren Aronofsky. After him are Predrag Mijatović, Petteri Orpo, Jason Bateman, Dana International, Giorgi Margvelashvili, and Santiago Cañizares.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Timothy D. Snyder ranks 2,582 out of 20,380. Before him are Jennifer Grey (1960), Charles Dow (1851), Will Eisner (1917), Anne Archer (1947), Jackie Jackson (1951), and Donald Wills Douglas Sr. (1892). After him are Jim Lightbody (1882), Edward T. Hall (1914), Ethel Barrymore (1879), Ub Iwerks (1901), Robert Todd Lincoln (1843), and Maggie Hassan (1958).

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Among HISTORIANS In United States

Among historians born in United States, Timothy D. Snyder ranks 8. Before him are Jared Diamond (1937), Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (1917), Donna Haraway (1944), Hayden White (1928), Richard Sennett (1943), and Barbara W. Tuchman (1912). After him are Christopher Browning (1944), Linda Nochlin (1931), Howard Zinn (1922), Deborah Lipstadt (1947), Rudolph Rummel (1932), and Natalie Zemon Davis (1928).

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