biography
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Butterfield, Sir Herbert
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| lived:
| (1900–79)
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| biography:
| Historian, born in Yorkshire, N England, UK. He studied at Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he later became fellow (1923–55) and master (1955–68), as well as lecturer (1930–44), professor of modern history (1944–63), and Regius professor (1963–8). He won initial recognition as a diplomatic historian with The Peace-Tactics of Napoleon 1806–8 (1929). His The Origins of Modern Science (1949) inaugurated the worldwide development of the history of science. |
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