# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/herbert-butterfield
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:27:56.612Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/herbert-butterfield"
name: "Herbert Butterfield"
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description: "Sir Herbert Butterfield was an English historian and philosopher of history, who was Regius Professor of Modern History and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. He is remembered chiefly for a short volume early in his career entitled The Whig Interpretation of History (1931) and for his Origins of Modern Science (1949). Butterfield turned increasingly to historiography and man's developing view of the past. Butterfield was a devout Christian and reflected at length on Christian influences in historical perspectives."
tagline: "British historian (1900 – 1979)"
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birthDate: "1900-10-07"
deathDate: "1979-07-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump