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Ernest Renan
French philosopher and writer (1823–1892)
Eusebius of Caesarea
Eusebius of Caesarea (30 May AD 339), also known as Eusebius Pamphilius, was a historian of Christianity, exegete, and Christian polemicist from the Roman province of Syria Palaestina. In about AD 314 he became the bishop of Caesarea Maritima.
Nicolae Iorga
Romanian historian, politician, literary critic, memoirist, poet and playwright (1871-1940)
Socrates of Constantinople
5th century Greek Christian church historian
Adolf von Harnack
Baltic German theologian and prominent church historian (1851–1930)
Paul Johnson
journalist, grand historian and speechwriter from England (1928–2023)
Salomon Reinach
French archaeologist (1858-1932)
Johann Lorenz von Mosheim
German church historian
August Neander
German theologian and church historian (1789-1850)
Géza Vermes
British scholar (1924–2013)
Etienne Vermeersch
Belgian debater, philosopher and skeptic (1934–2019)
Friedrich Münter
Danish bishop (1761-1830)
Gerhard Ebeling
German theologian (1912–2001)
David Flusser
Israeli academic (1917–2000)
John P. Meier
American priest (1942–2022)
Annianus of Alexandria
monk and chronographer
Adolf Jülicher
German scholar and biblical exegete (1857–1938)
Gisle Johnson
Norwegian theologian (1822–1894)
Hans-Peter Fischer
German priest and theologian
Raffaele Pettazzoni
Italian historian of religion (1883-1959)
Carl Adolf Cornelius
German church historian and historian (1819–1903)
Agostino Borromeo
Italian acadêmico (1944–2024)
Roberto de Mattei
Italian historian
P. Y. Saeki
Japanese sinologist (1871–1965)
Johann Matthias Schröckh
German historian
Ralf van Bühren
German art historian and Church historian
Bishop Kyrillos Katerelos
bishop of Abydos of the Greek Orthodox Church
Albert Ehrhard
German church historian and theologian (1862–1940)
Carl Theodor Mirbt
Professor of Theology at Marburg (1860-1929)
Jozef Haľko
Slovak roman catholic bishop
Augustin Bunea
Romanian theologian and historian (1857-1909)
Franz Hermann Reinhold von Frank
German theologian (1827-1894)
Friedrich Loofs
German evangelical theologian and church historian (1858-1928)
Gregory Atta
Syrian archbishop
Ilaria Ramelli
Italian historian, author, and academic (born 1973)
Michael Lilienthal
German church historian and theologian (1686-1750)
Friedrich Lauchert
German Roman Catholic theologian
Maurice Goguel
French historian (1880-1955)
Francesco Carotta
independent Italian ancient historian and religious historian
Herman Johan Selderhuis
Dutch theologian
Jacques Le Brun
French historian (1931-2020)
Otto Mejer
German jurist and librarian (1818–1893)
Abram Ranovich
soviet historian of antiquity (1885–1948)
Euseviu Popovici
Romanian author
Georg Schreiber
German politician, church historian and theologian (1882-1963)
Albrecht Wolters
German Protestant theologian (1822–1878)
Gerhard Müller
Lutheran theologian, church historian (1929–2024)
Henric Sanielevici
Romanian journalist and literary critic, also remembered for his work in anthropology, ethnography, sociology and zoology (1875-1951)
Émile Amann
French historian
Iosif Kryvelyov
Soviet scholar of religion and historian of Judaism and Christianity (1906–1991)
W. Stanford Reid
Canadian minister and scholar (1913–1996)
Bengt Sundkler
Swedish Church historian (1909-1995)
Romulus Cândea
Romanian historian
Karl Johannes Neumann
German classical historian (1857–1917)
John Shertzer Hittell
American geologist and mineralogist (1825-1901)
František X. Halas
Czech historian and diplomat (1937–2023)
Claudio Moreschini
Italian classical philologist, latinist and patrologist
Barrie Dobson
English historian (1931-2013)
Ioan C. Filitti
Romanian historian and diplomat
Gustav Anrich
German church historian