Ernest Bernbaum

Ernest Bernbaum (February 12, 1879 – March 8, 1958) was an American educator, scholar, writer and an opponent of the Suffragette movement.

Biography
Ernest Bernbaum was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Ole Kruse Bernbaum and Dorothea (née Christiansen) Bernbaum. He was educated at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. He attended Harvard University, where he was awarded a Ph.D. in philology in 1907. He taught English at Harvard from 1907 to 1916, then joined the staff of the University of Illinois. From 1917 to 1919, he was chair of the Committee on War Lectures at Illinois. In 1921 he married Ruth Guenther. He remained at the University of Illinois until 1945.

He died from at a stroke at his home in Jaffrey, New Hampshire on March 8, 1958.