Ephraim Emerton

Ephraim Emerton (1851–1935) was an American historian of medieval and Reformation Europe. Born in Salem, Massachusetts, he graduated from Harvard, studied in Berlin and Leipzig, and returned to teach at Harvard, where he held the Winn professorship of ecclesiastical history for many years. He helped introduce the German seminar method of historical teaching in the United States. His books include An Introduction to the Study of the Middle Ages, Mediaeval Europe, a biography of Erasmus (1899) and translations of the letters of Saint Boniface and of Pope Gregory VII.