Dana Carleton Munro

American historian (1866–1933)

Dana Carleton Munro (June 8, 1866 – January 13, 1933) was an American historian, brother of Wilfred Harold Munro, born at Bristol, R.I. He was educated at Brown (A.M., 1890) and in Europe at Strassburg and Freiburg. He taught at Penn (1893–1902), at Wisconsin until 1915, then at Princeton.^[1] He was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society in 1901.^[2] Brown gave him the degree of Doctor of humane letters (L.H.D.) in 1912. He edited Translations and Reprints from the Original Sources of History (1894–1902). He was co-author of Mediœval Civilization (1904, 1906) and Essays on the Crusades (1902).

Among the graduate students who studied under Munro were Bernadotte Everly Schmitt, William Ezra Lingelbach, Louis J. Paetow, and Frederick Duncalf.^[3]

His son, Dana Gardner Munro, was also a historian.

Books

A Syllabus of Mediœval History (seventh edition, 1913)
A History of the Middle Ages (1902)
A Source Book of Roman History (1904)
The Kingdom of The Crusaders (1935)

References

^ "Dana Carleton Munro papers, 1889–1949". dla.library.upenn.edu.
^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2021-05-19.
^ Louis J. Paetow (ed.), The Crusades, and other historical essays; presented to Dana C. Munro by his former students (New York: F. S. Crofts 1928); Archibald R. Lewis, "Duncalf, Frederick," Handbook of Texas Online, accessed May 31, 2021.