Namier

/ ˈneɪmɪə /

noun

1. NamierSir Lewis Bernstein18881960MBritishPolishHISTORY: historian Sir Lewis Bernstein , original name Ludwik Bernsztajn vel Niemirowski . 1888–1960, British historian, born in Poland: noted esp for his studies of 18th-century British politics

Example Sentences

For a long time, under the influence of the formidable Lewis Namier, the historian of Britain’s eighteenth-century Parliament, the pervasive ideas in the political life of the period were held to depend on clans and clan relations, not systems of thought.

From The New Yorker

I was reminded of what Isaiah Berlin said of his friend Lewis Namier: according as whether one was or was not interested in the subject on which he was discoursing, he could be the most interesting man alive or the most boring.

From The Guardian

Namier felt that most ideologies were shams, and was prepared to prove it.

From Time Magazine Archive

Namier's history bulged with facts and figures and so many quotes that he often seems not to be writing at all but excerpting.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yet Namier revolutionized the writing of history and became in the eyes of his British colleagues the greatest historian of the century.

From Time Magazine Archive