Ernest Brehaut

Born in 1873, Ernest Brehaut was a Canadian-American classicist, historian, and author whose work centered on late antique and early medieval texts. He taught Latin at Colorado College from 1898 to 1908, then served as a professor of history from 1908 to 1911 before continuing much of his scholarship independently.

Brehaut is especially remembered for clear, durable studies and translations. Sources during this search credit him with important work on Cato, Isidore of Seville, and Gregory of Tours, and his 1916 translation of History of the Franks remains one of the works most closely associated with his name.

He died in 1953. Although he is not a widely known popular author today, his books still matter to readers interested in the intellectual world of the so-called Dark Ages and in the historians who preserved the early history of medieval Europe.