ABSTRACT
A comparable text for the Greek case is the article 'Introduction to the History of the Regeneration of the Greek People' by Konstantinos Paparrigopoulos, more commonly known as the 1846 lecture. According to Paparrigopoulos, to achieve the task of writing a full Greek national history, Greek historians had to make use of every source or argument at their disposal. The problem was that the great majority of works on Greek national history consisted of secondary contributions in most cases by Philhellenes like Pouqueville, Villemain, and Maurer. Paparrigopoulos acknowledged that he and his fellow Greek historians had the works of three European authors who had already made considerable advances towards the writing of a general history of Greece: James Emerson, Johann Wilhelm Zinkeisen, and George Finlay. All three would become the object of Paparrigopoulos's critique on the grounds that none of them had been able convincingly to combine the philosopher's larger view with the work of the historian proper.
