Donald Kagan
1932
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2021
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: United States of America
languages spoken, written or signed: English
educated at: Brown University, Ohio State University, Brooklyn College, Thomas Jefferson High School
occupation: historian, university teacher, non-fiction writer, academic, classical philologist
award received: National Humanities Medal, Jefferson Lecture
Donald Kagan (; May 1, 1932 – August 6, 2021) was a Lithuanian-born American historian and classicist at Yale University specializing in ancient Greece. He formerly taught in the Department of History at Cornell University. Kagan was considered among the foremost American scholars of Greek history and is notable for his four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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