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History is the systematic study and documentation of the human past.
Herodotus (c. 484 – c. 425 BC) has been considered the "father of history" in the Western world.
History by Frederick Dielman (1896)
The title page to The Historians' History of the World
The title page to La Historia d'Italia
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A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. Some historians are recognized by publications or training and experience. "Historian" became a professional occupation in the late nineteenth century as research universities were emerging in Germany and elsewhere.
Herodotus (c. 484 – c. 425 BC) was a Greek historian who lived in the fifth century BC and one of the earliest historians whose work survives.
Reproduction of part of a tenth-century copy of Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War.
Leonardo Bruni (c. 1370–1444), the historian who first divided history into the three eras of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and Modern times.
A page of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People