Question

The father of history is ________. Fill in the blank.

Answer 1

Herodotus is the father of history

Answer 2

The father of history is Herodotus.

Herodotus is named as the father of the subject history.

Herodotus who was a famous historian from Halicarnassus modern day, Turkey, who created his History authority in the 5th century BC.

He wrote a book named Histories or history which means inquiry.

Here he narrated the history of Persians wars along with various earlier and contemporary instances about Greeks and barbarian period.

Apart from history he also wrote ethnographic, geographic, cultural and religious observations.