Charles H. Beeson
Charles Henry Beeson (1870–1949) was an American classical scholar. His book " A Primer of Medieval Latin: An Anthology of Prose and Poetry" (1925) has remained one of the leading texts for learning post-classical Latin. In addition, he was an active researcher and reviewer, especially for the journal "Classical Philology." In 1935, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Beeson was born in Columbia City, Indiana. In 1893, he received his A.B. in classics from Indiana University. In 1895, he received his A.M. from Indiana. In 1907, he received his Ph.D.  from Munich University. While at Indiana University he assisted Carl H. Eigenmann in studies of the fishes of Indiana, and elsewhere, and was the coauthor of a few ichthyological papers, including the "Fishes of Indiana", "Preliminary note on the relationship of the species usually united under the generic name "Sebastodes" " and " "Pteropodus dallii" sp. nov". During World War I, he worked in the Military Intelligence Division (MID) Cryptography Department (MI-8).