Barzun, Jacques Martin (1907– )

French-born US historian and educator whose speciality was 19th-century European intellectual life. His book The Modern Researcher 1970 is recognized as a classic study of historical method. Among his many historical works is Romanticism and the Modern Ego 1943.

Barzun emigrated to the USA with his parents 1919. He was educated at Columbia University, earning a PhD in history 1932, and soon afterward joined the faculty there, becoming a member of the administration.