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unusual facts about European History



Charles Eugene, Duke of Württemberg

Between 1751 and 1759 Karl Eugen was involved in an increasingly bitter struggle with his adviser, the eminent Liberal jurist Johann Jakob Moser who strongly opposed the Duke's absolutist tendencies.

Guido Abbattista

Guido Abbattista, (born in Lucca, Italy, 25 August 1953) is an Italian academic historian, and an expert in early Modern European History.

La Decadència

During the time of the literary production of the Catalan baroque (approx. 1600-1740), it is important to note the growing opposition to the Habsburg monarchy and its absolutist policies, especially under the Conde-Duque de Olivares’ regime.

Lathrop High School

AP classes are offered in Biology, US History, Microeconomics, European History, Calculus (AB & BC), Statistics, (English) Composition, (English) Literature, Chemistry, Physics, Computer Science.

Princess

As women slowly gained more autonomy and respect in European history, the title of princess became simply the female counterpart of prince; it does not necessarily imply being merely married to a prince, she may be the unmarried daughter of a monarch or other royal or noble of sufficient rank (king, queen, prince, grand duke, duke, or other).


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Anna M. Cienciala

She taught courses in Eastern European history – with focus on modern Polish and Russian history – at the University of Ottawa and the University of Toronto in Canada, before landing a long-term career in the U.S. at the University of Kansas in 1965.

Eleanor Duckett

Duckett published a number of books with University of Michigan Press, mainly on European history, religious history, and saints, and was a reviewer for The New York Times Book Review.

Eric Wolf

His most well-known book, Europe and the People Without History, is famous for critiquing popular European history for largely ignoring historical actors outside the ruling classes.

Erwin Oberländer

From 1975 to 1985 he was Professor of Modern Eastern European History at the University of Münster and served as Dean at the Faculty of History 1976-1977.

Federigo Argentieri

He serves as director of the Guarini Institute at the John Cabot University in Rome and is a member of the Italian Association for Central and East European History.

Geoffrey Bruun

He was the author of several books on European history, including Europe and the French Imperium, 1799–1814, published in 1938; Europe in Evolution, (1945) and Europe and America Since 1492 (1954), as well as a biography of Georges Clemenceau, the French statesman, published in 1943.

George Louis Beer

He studied at Columbia University and lectured on European History there from 1893 to 1897.

H. Morse Stephens

Stephens emigrated to the United States in 1894 and took the position of Professor at Cornell University in the Department of History, where he taught European History.

Hanno Höfer

Between 1990 and 1992 he studied South-Eastern European History and Ehtnology in Berlin, then he had a scholarship at the Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj, and later, between 1994–1998, he studied Movies and Directing at the Academy for Theatre and Film in Bucharest.

Harriet Doerr

She enrolled once again at Stanford, and in 1977, took her BA degree in European history.

Institute of Historical Research

Among the IHR’s extensive collection of books on European history are a set of volumes of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica donated to the University of London by the Nazi government of Germany in 1937.

Ivan Meštrović

His son Matthew (Mate) Meštrović is an American university professor of Modern European history and worked as a Contributing Editor of Time magazine, served as a lieutenant in the US Army PsyWar.

James Carafano

He holds a B.S. in national security and public affairs from the United States Military Academy in West Point, an M.A. in British and early modern European history from Georgetown University, an M.A. in strategic studies from the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. in diplomatic history from Georgetown.

John Merriman

John M. Merriman (b.?), Yale professor of French and European history

Liah Greenfeld

In 2002, she received the Kagan Prize of the Historical Society for the best book in European History (for The Spirit of Capitalism) and in 2004 was chosen to deliver the Gellner lecture at the London School of Economics.

Lothar Ledderose

After graduating from the prestigious Apostelgymnasium of Cologne he studied East-Asian as well as European History of Art, Sinology and Japanology at the universities of Cologne, Bonn, Paris, Taipei and Heidelberg.

Louis J. Nigro, Jr.

Prior to doing so, he received a PhD in Modern European History from Vanderbilt University, was a Fulbright-Hays Research Fellow in Italy, taught modern European history at Stanford University, and served as an officer in the California Army National Guard.

Louisiana State University Press

Primary fields of publication include southern history, southern literary studies, Louisiana and the Gulf South, the American Civil War and military history, roots music, southern culture, environmental studies, European history, foodways, poetry, fiction, media studies, and landscape architecture.

Michael Wood's Story of England

Kibworth goes through the worst famine in European history, and then, as revealed in the astonishing village archive in Merton College Oxford, two thirds of the people die in the Black Death.

Paul Rose

Paul Lawrence Rose, Professor of European History and Mitrani Professor of Jewish Studies at Pennsylvania State University

R. Nicholas Burns

He is a 1978 graduate of Boston College where he earned a B.A. in History concentrating on European History and the Certificat Pratique de Langue Française during his junior year at the University of Paris (Sorbonne).

Raymond Detrez

For around two decades, he worked as a producer of the Belgian Radio and then became a professor of Eastern European history and culture.

Richard G. Salomon

Going on to the University of Berlin, Salomon studied eastern European history under Theodor Schiemann (1847-1921), Byzantine history under Karl Krumbacher (1856-1921), the history of medieval law under Karl Zeurner (1849-1914), and Latin paleography under Michael Tangl (1861-1921), under whom he completed his doctoral dissertation in February 1907: Studien zur normannisch-italischen Diplomatik.

Robert Gellately

In addition, Gellately has co-edited a volume of essays with Russian specialist Sheila Fitzpatrick, Accusatory Practices: Denunciation in Modern European History, 1789-1989 (University of Chicago Press, 1997).

Salvius Julianus

Peter Stein, Roman Law in European History (Cambridge University 1999) at 43–45.

Stanley B. Kimball

He was an expert on eastern European history but also wrote on Latter-day Saint history, specifically his ancestor Heber C. Kimball and the Mormon Trail.

Templeton, New Zealand

Its European history goes to over 140 years when it was a watering point for horses between Christchurch and the Selwyn River / Waikirikiri.

Theodor Oberländer

He is the father of Professor Erwin Oberländer, a noted expert on Eastern European history, and the grandfather of Christian Oberländer, Professor of Japanese Studies.

William Smaldone

William "Bill" Smaldone (born 1958) is a Professor of European history at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon.

Yuma Crossing

In 1540, well before the British Europeans touched Plymouth Rock in 1620, Yuma’s European history began here with the arrival of Spanish explorer Hernando de Alarcon.