August C. Krey
{{short description|German-born American historian, 1887-1961}}
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August Charles Krey (June 29, 1887 – July 28, 1961) was an American medievalist. He was chairman of the Department of History at the University of Minnesota from 1944 to 1955.
Biography
Born in Germany, he immigrated to Wisconsin with his family as a child. He earned all his degrees from the University of Wisconsin between 1907 and 1914. He taught at the University of Texas (1910) and at the University of Illinois (1912). In 1913, he joined the University of Minnesota, where he spent the rest of his career, heading the Department of History from 1944{{cite web|url=http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/ark:/99166/w6dz0pdv |title=Krey, August C. (August Charles), 1887-1961 |website=socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu |accessdate=March 7, 2017}} until his retirement in 1955. He was a member of the council of the American Historical Association and a member of the Medieval Academy of America.{{cite news|title=August C. Krey 1887-1961 |newspaper=Social Education|volume=26 |publisher=National Council for the Social Studies |year=1962}}
Krey took a leading role in the definition of the social studies program in US schools, first as chairman of the American Historical Association's Committee on History in the Schools (1925-1929) and later as chairman of the Commission on the Social Studies in the Schools (1929-1934).{{cite book |author=Lawrence J. Dennis |title=George S. Counts and Charles A. Beard: Collaborators for Change |publisher=SUNY Press |year=1989 |isbn=9780887069925 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/georgescountscha00denn }}
Bibliography
Krey coauthored with Emily Atwater Babcock the translation of William of Tyre's chronicle published in 1943 under the title A History of Deeds Done Beyond the Sea.
Some of his notable books are as follows.[http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n85034280/ Krey, August C. (August Charles) (1887-1961)]. WorldCat Identities.
- The First Crusade: The Accounts of Eyewitnesses and ParticipantsKrey, A. C. (August Charles). (1921). [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000631413/Home The first crusade: the accounts of eye-witnesses and participants]. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
- History and the Social Web: A Collection of Essays
- Parallel Source Problems in Medieval History
- German War Practices: Treatment of Civilians
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Category:American medievalists
Category:University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni
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Category:University of Texas at Austin faculty
Category:Historians from Minnesota
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Category:Emigrants from the German Empire to the United States
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