Arnold Toynbee
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: Twentieth Century
- Categories: Education, Literature, Publishing
- Subcategories: Authors, Writers, Philosophers, Historians
- Curriculum: 20th & 21st Century European History, British History
Article abstract: His challenge and response theory of history, set forth in his twelve-volume A Study of History, made Toynbee an important twentieth century philosopher of history.
Early Life
Arnold Joseph Toynbee was born into a lower-middle-class family, rich intellectually if not socially. His family—including his grandfather, uncles, and parents—was scholarly, humanitarian, and pious. One uncle, also named Arnold Toynbee, earned distinction as a historian, philosopher, and reformer. Toynbee himself credited his mother, a historian and one of...
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