Ephraim Emerton

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jump to: navigation, search

Ephraim Emerton, Ph. D. (18 February 1851 – 3 March 1935) was an American historian, born at Salem, Massachusetts.

He graduated at Harvard in 1871 and at Leipzig in 1876. He became a tutor at Harvard in 1876.

Professor Emerton wrote:

  • An Introduction to the Study of the Middle Ages, 375-814 (1888)
  • Mediœval Europe, 814-1300 (1894)
  • Beginnings of Modern Europe (1917)
  • The Defensor Pacis of Marsiglio of Padua (1920)
  • Learning and Living, essays {1921)
  • Humanism and Tyranny, Studies in the Italian Trecento (1925)

Professor Emerton became president of the Cambridge Historical Society in 1921.

[edit] External links

Stub icon This biography of an American historian is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephraim_Emerton"