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Henry Thomas Buckle
Henry Thomas Buckle was an English historian, the author of an unfinished History of Civilization and a strong amateur chess player. He is sometimes called "the Father of Scientific History".
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culture · English historian (1821–1862) · historian · chess player · sociologist · philosopher · writer · author · also Henry Thomas Buckle, Buckle
Born 24 November 1821 · Died 29 May 1862 · Q435699
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2026· 9 entries
“I was never much tormented with what is called education, but allowed to pursue my own way undisturbed.... Whatever I may now be supposed to know I taught myself”
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1981· 1 entry
American sociologist Robert Bierstedt claimed that, in his History of Civilization in England, "Buckle criticized historians on the ground that they were too much interested in biography and in military and political his
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1910· 1 entry
The eleventh edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica Buckle did not define the general conceptions with which he worked: "civilization", "history", "science", "law"
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1862· 2 entries
Died 1862-05-29.
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“When the interval between the intellectual classes and the practical classes is too great, the former will possess no influence, the latter will reap no benefits.”
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1859· 1 entry
Combined with the exhausting work on the second volume of the History of Civilization in England, and its publication in 1861 invoked a decision by Buckle to go to Egypt to recover from exhaustion
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1821· 1 entry
Born 1821-11-24.
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