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Sir Lewis Namier

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Sir Lewis Namier · Philosophy & Social Sciences

What

Profiled in Thinkers of the 20th Century

When

1888, Wola Okrzejska, Congress Poland (Russian Empire) — 1960, London, England

Where

Poland · United Kingdom

Biography

Sir Lewis Namier is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Profiled in Thinkers of the 20th Century

How & why

Namier was a British historian who transformed the study of eighteenth-century politics through minute analysis of the interests and connections of individual Members of Parliament, an approach later called 'Namierism'. Knighted in 1952, he was also an active Zionist. He was Jewish, born to a Polish-Jewish family.

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Profiled in Thinkers of the 20th Century

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