Merle Curti, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Merle Curti

American historian

Date of Birth: 15-Sep-1897

Place of Birth: Papillion, Nebraska, United States

Date of Death: 09-Mar-1996

Profession: historian

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Merle Eugene Curti (September 15, 1897 – March 9, 1996) was a leading American historian, who taught many graduate students at Columbia University and the University of Wisconsin, and was a leader in developing the fields of social history and intellectual history.
He directed 86 finished Ph.D.
dissertations and had an unusually wide range of correspondents.
As a Progressive historian he was deeply committed to democracy, and to the Turnerian thesis that social and economic forces shape American life, thought and character.
He was a pioneer in peace studies, intellectual history, and social history, and helped develop quantitative methods based on census samples as a tool in historical research.