Arnaldo Dante Momigliano KBE (September 5, 1908, Caraglio, Piemont–September 1, 1987, London) 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". September 5 is the 248th day of the year (249th in leap years). ... 1908 (MCMVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Country Italy Region Piedmont Province Province of Cuneo (CN) Mayor Elevation 638 m Area 41. ... Piedmont is a region of northwestern Italy. ... September 1 is the 244th day of the year (245th in leap years). ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... London (pronounced ) is the capital city of England and the United Kingdom. ... A historian is someone who writes history, and history is a written accounting of the past. ... Historiography is the study of the way history is and has been written. ... Donald Kagan (born 1932) is a Yale historian specializing in ancient Greece, notable for his four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War. ...

He became professor of Roman history at the University of Turin in 1936, but as a Jew soon lost his position due to the anti-Jewish Racial Laws (enacted by the Fascist regime in 1938), 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. Among his students was the Roman historian Tim Cornell, now a professor at the University of London[1]. Subsequently he visited regularly at the University of Chicago. The University of Turin (Italian Università degli Studi di Torino, UNITO) is the university of Turin in the Piedmont region of north-western Italy. ... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Fascism (in Italian, fascismo), capitalized, was the authoritarian political movement which ruled Italy from 1922 to 1943 under the leadership of Benito Mussolini. ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: Multiple unofficial anthems Capital London Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Government Constitutional monarchy  - Queen Queen Elizabeth II  - Prime Minister Tony Blair MP Unification    - by Athelstan AD 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq... The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford in England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... University College London, commonly known as UCL, is one of the colleges that make up the University of London. ... 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ... Tim J. Cornell is a contemporary historian of ancient Rome. ... The University of Chicago is a private university located principally in the Hyde Park neighborhood 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. The first volume of the Enciclopedia Italiana di scienze, lettere ed arti or Italian Encyclopaedia of Science, Letters, and Arts was published in 1925. ... // Events and trends World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrination, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons such as the atomic bomb. ... The 1950s was the decade spanning the years 1950 to 1959. ... The Oxford Classical Dictionary (OCD) is the standard one-volume encyclopedia in English of topics relating to Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. ... 1913 advertisement for the 11th edition of Encyclopædia Britannica, with the slogan When in doubt—look it up in the Encyclopædia Britannica The Encyclopædia Britannica (properly spelled with æ, the ae-ligature) was first published in 1768–1771 as The Britannica was an important early English-language general...

In 1974 he was made an honorary Knight of the British Empire (KBE). 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... This is an incomplete list of people who have been created Honorary Knights (or Dames) by the British crown, as well as those who have been raised to the two comparable Orders of Chivalry (Order of Merit and Order of the Companions of Honour) and the Royal Victorian Chain, which...

A number of his essays were collected into volumes published posthumously.

Books

(incomplete)

• The Conflict Between Paganism and Christianity in the Fourth Century (1963)
• Studies in Historiography (1966)
• 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)

Further reading

• Bowersock, G. W. "Momigliano's Quest for the Person", History and Theory, Vol. 30, No. 4, Beiheft 30: The Presence of the Historian: Essays in Memory of Arnaldo Momigliano. (Dec., 1991), pp. 27–36.
• Christ, Karl. "Arnaldo Momigliano and the History of Historiography", History and Theory, Vol. 30, No. 4, Beiheft 30: The Presence of the Historian: Essays in Memory of Arnaldo Momigliano. (Dec., 1991), pp. 5–12.
• Ginzburg, Carlo. "Momigliano and de Martino", History and Theory, Vol. 30, No. 4, Beiheft 30: The Presence of the Historian: Essays in Memory of Arnaldo Momigliano. (Dec., 1991), pp. 37–48.
• Kagan, Donald, "Arnaldo Momigliano and the human sources of history", The New Criterion, Vol. 10, No. 7, March 1992.
• Murray, Oswyn. "Arnaldo Momigliano, 1908–1987: [Obituary]", The Journal of Roman Studies, Vol. 77. (1987), pp. xi–xii.
• Murray, Oswyn. "Arnaldo Momigliano in England", History and Theory, Vol. 30, No. 4, Beiheft 30: The Presence of the Historian: Essays in Memory of Arnaldo Momigliano. (Dec., 1991), pp. 49–64.
• Phillips, Mark Salber. "Reconsiderations on History and Antiquarianism: Arnaldo Momigliano and the Historiography of Eighteenth-Century Britain", Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 57, No. 2. (Apr., 1996), pp. 297–316.
• Weinberg, Joanna. "Where Three Civilizations Meet", History and Theory, Vol. 30, No. 4, Beiheft 30: The Presence of the Historian: Essays in Memory of Arnaldo Momigliano. (Dec., 1991), pp. 13–26.