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Walter Goffart

American historian

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born: 1934
died: 2025
age at death: 90
known for: historian, medievalist, university teacher

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Walter André Goffart was a German-born American historian who specialized in Late Antiquity and the European Middle Ages. He taught for many years as a professor at the University of Toronto and at the Centre for Medieval Studies from 1960 to 1999, and was a senior research scholar at Yale University. He was the author of monographs on a ninth-century forgery, late Roman taxation, four "barbarian" historians, and historical atlases.

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