Benjamin Dean Meritt (March 31, 1899 in Durham, North Carolina – July 7, 1989 in Austin, Texas) was a classical scholar, professor and epigraphist of ancient Greece.
[1] He was the older son of Arthur Herbert Meritt, a professor of Greek and Latin at Trinity College (later Duke University).
[1] His younger brother Herbert Dean Meritt was a professor of English philology at Stanford University.
In 1935 he became a member of the faculty at the Institute for Advanced Study, a position he would hold until his retirement.
[6] In 1972, he moved with his wife, Lucy Shoe Meritt, to the University of Texas at Austin as a visiting professor.