Kenneth Meyer Setton was an American historian and an expert on the history of medieval Europe, particularly the Crusades.
10 Facts About Kenneth Setton
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Kenneth Setton received his master's degree in 1938 and PhD in 1941 at Columbia University.
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Kenneth Setton received honorary degrees from Boston University and the University of Kiel.
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Kenneth Setton claimed that knowledge of languages is the basis of knowledge of historical science, and he spoke Italian, French, German and Catalan, besides his favorites, Latin and classical Greek.
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Kenneth Setton served as the editor-in-chief of the Wisconsin Collaborative History of the Crusades, published in six volumes from 1969 to 1989.
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Kenneth Setton was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1952.
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Kenneth Setton received the John Frederick Lewis Award of the Society three times: first in 1957 for his work The Byzantine Background to the Italian Renaissance, then in 1984 for his work The Papacy and the Levant, volume 3 and 4 and in 1990 for his work Venice, Austria and the Turks in the 17th Century.
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Kenneth Setton was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1960.
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Kenneth Setton began his teaching career at Boston University and the University of Manitoba.
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Kenneth Setton had many concurrent appointments, such as director of the library at the University of Pennsylvania, acting director of the Gennadius Library in Greece, and Guggenheim Fellow.