Ernest Brehaut
{{Short description|American classicist}}
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| birth_date = May 23, 1873
| death_date = November 11, 1953 (aged 80)
| birth_place = Murray Harbour, Canada
| death_place = St. Petersburg, Florida
| workplaces = Colorado College
| alma_mater = Columbia University
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| field = Classics
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Ernest Brehaut (1873 – 1953) was a Canadian-American classicist, historian and author.
Biography
He was born on May 23, 1873 in Murray Harbour, Prince Edward Island, Canada,{{cite web |author= |date=2025 |title=Brehaut, Ernest |url=https://dbcs.rutgers.edu/all-scholars/8569-brehaut-ernest |website=Database of classical scholars |location= |publisher=Rutgers New Brunswick School of Arts and Sciences |access-date=May 11, 2025}} the son of George and Margaret Mackinnon. Brehaut married Marguerite Upton on January 3, 1907.
He died on November 11, 1953 in St. Petersburg, Florida, United States.
Education
He completed his B.A. at Dalhousie University of Canada in 1894, followed by his A.B. at Harvard University in 1896 and he completed his Ph.D. at Columbia University in 1912.
Career
He served as an instructor of Latin language at Colorado College from 1898 to 1908 and a professor of history from 1908 to 1911.
Bibliography
He is the author or translator of a number of notable books:{{Cite web|url=https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Brehaut%2C%20Ernest%2C%201873%2D1953],+Ernest,+1873-1953|title=Ernest Brehaut (Brehaut, Ernest, 1873-1953) | The Online Books Page|website=onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/46441]|title=Books by Brehaut, Ernest (sorted by popularity)|website=Project Gutenberg}}{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/search?query=creator:%3A%22Brehaut%2C,+Ernest%2C,+1873-%22]|title=Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine|website=archive.org}}
- An Encyclopedist of the Dark Ages: Isidore of Seville
- Gregory of Tours' History of the Franks (translator)
See also
References
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External links
- [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21524628 Ernest Brehaut]
- [https://dbcs.rutgers.edu/all-scholars/8569-brehaut-ernest Brehaut, Ernest]
- [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/46441 Books by Brehaut, Ernest (sorted by popularity)]
- [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Ernest_Brehaut Ernest Brehaut - Wikisource, the free online library]
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Category:American people of Canadian descent
Category:Dalhousie University alumni
Category:Columbia University alumni
Category:Harvard College alumni