Frederick Merk (August 15, 1887 – September 24, 1977) was an American historian.
Frederick Merk was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1887.
In 1916 he went to Harvard University to study under Frederick Jackson Turner.
He taught at Harvard until 1956, and oversaw several dozen graduate students.
[3] John Morton Blum, one of Merk's graduate students after World War II, recalled of his mentor that Merk emphasized integrity, "an integrity of mind and process, of the way in which to understand and to write history, an integrity by his standards so severe that perhaps no one of his students could ever achieve it, but a quality he made so important that all of them would try.