History did not professionalize until the nineteenth century

Evidence

One cannot really speak of the professionalization of history until the 19th century and then not everywhere at the same time. Before that history was a pursuit for hired chroniclers or independent gentlemen. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 2067

Categorization

• XREF: Ties to discussions of the discipline of history’s institutional origins, e.g. in Hobsbawm or histories of the modern university. — connects to: Nineteenth-century statistics was publicly debated; today’s ML computing the social goes unobserved. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 380; The legal profession was almost exclusively white and male until the late nineteenth century — Lawrence M. Friedman and Grant M. Hayden, American Law: An Introduction, 1248