Historian and Massachusetts Governor Thomas Hutchinson called him "a zealous minister, of character both for learning and piety" and New Hampshire historian Jeremy Belknap styled him "a gentleman of learning, piety and zeal".
Historians credit this to his zealous personality, his criticism of the church hierarchy, his emphasis on direct experience of God, and some of his unorthodox teachings including his belief that an unordained monk who had the direct experience of God was empowered to absolve others of their sins.
Now 58, a familiar figure in the art circles of Paris, London & New York, he is represented by the Marlborough Gallery; he also has had about 20 museum shows, in Europe, Israel & the U.S. 15 years ago, he threw himself with zealous professionalism into an ancillary career as an art historian & he has organized 6 exhibitions of classic & modern French art, for which he also wrote the catalogues.
Some historians have called him "blindly loyal" or a "zealous disciple" of Hitler; others take a more nuanced view, seeing in Model a coldly calculating opportunist who used the Führer to his advantage, whether or not he was committed to him or the ideals of Nazism.
According to the historian Ammianus Marcellinus, the Emperor Julian, who was raised a Christian but became a zealous pagan, knew from experience that no wild beasts were so hostile to humans as most Christians were in their savagery toward one another.
Martini was a zealous collector of musical literature; his library, estimated at 17,000 volumes by the 18th-century music historian Charles Burney, became the basis for the Civic Museum and Music Library in Bologna.
Their computer program's first target, a historian, had already been cleared of the charge of plagiarism by the American Historical Association, and the zealous Feder and Stewart were soon reassigned.
Rather, it is the sad fact that historians are being harassed by illiberal prosecutors, denied entry to Turkish archives and targeted by zealous nationalist activists.Together with authors of fiction, who are investigated and tried for statements made by their dramatis personae, they would beg to disagree with Mr Stone's assertion that the events of 1915 "should now be left to historians".
At the height of the trade, when more than 5,000 bodies a year were brought into Iraq, according to an authoritative account of Iraq's Shiites by the historian Yitzhak Nakash, a profession of corpse driers sprang up on the Iranian side of the border to help thwart zealous inspectors.
Most were zealous Zionists.
