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Imagination plays too important a role in the writing of history, and what is imagination but the projection of the author's personality.

Pieter Geyl

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Pieter Geyl

Pieter Geyl

Born: December 15, 1887
Died: December 31, 1966 (aged 79)
Bio: Pieter Catharinus Arie Geyl was a Dutch historian, well known for his studies in early modern Dutch history and in historiography.
Known for:
  1. Napoléon, for and against (1949)
  2. Orange and Stuart, 1641-1672
  3. From Ranke to Toynbee (1952)
  4. Debates with historians (1955)
  5. Revolt of the Netherlands, 1555-1609 (1932)

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