Karl F. Morrison

Karl Frederick Morrison was born November 3, 1936, in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. He is an American historian who got Bachelor's degree in 1956 from the University of Mississippi and a year later got his Master's from Cornell University. In 1961 he received his Ph.D. from the same place, and was hired as Professor Emeritus at Rutgers University in 1988. He has an award in the Humanities from the McKnight Foundation and is also a fellow at the Medieval Academy of America, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and University of Notre Dame.^[1]

Morrison studied medieval historiography with an accent on hermeneutics, for instance in the works of the Cistercian historian Otto of Freising.^[2] Petra Eberle noted in a 1992 review that Morrison's book "I Am You": The Hermeneutics of Empathy in Western Literature, Theology, and Art^[3] was "an extended meditative essay by a scholar deeply learned in his sources."^[4] He received the McKnight Foundation Award in the Humanities in 1963 for his book on Carolingian ecclesiology.^[5]