Arnaldo D. Momigliano (1908-1987) was an Italian historian known for his work in historiography, characterized by Donald Kagan as the "world’s leading student of the writing of history in the ancient world".
He became professor of Roman history at the University of Turin in 1936, but as a Jew soon lost his position due to anti-Jewish laws, and moved to England, where he remained. After a time at Oxford University, he went to University College London, where he was professor from 1951 to 1975. Subsequently he visited regularly at the University of Chicago.
In addition to studying the ancient Greek historians and their methods, he also took an interest in modern historians, and wrote a number of studies of them. From the 1930s on, he contributed a number of biographies to the Enciclopedia Italiana, and in the 1940s and 1950s he contributed biographies to the Oxford Classical Dictionary and Encyclopædia Britannica.
A number of his essays were collected into volumes published posthumously.
Books
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- The Development of Greek Biography : Four Lectures (1971)
- Alien Wisdom : The Limits of Hellenization (1976)
- Essays in Ancient and Modern Historiography (1977)
- How to Reconcile Greeks and Trojans (1983)
- On Pagans, Jews and Christians (1987)
- The Classical Foundations of Modern Historiography (1991)
- A.D. Momigliano : Studies on Modern Scholarship (ed. G.W. Bowersock and T.J. Cornell , 1994)
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