Frederick John Teggart (1870–1946) was an Irish-American historian and social scientist, known for work on the history of civilizations.
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He was born in Belfast on 9 May 1870, and was educated at Methodist College Belfast and Trinity College, Dublin. He emigrated to the United States and graduated B.A. at Stanford University in 1894. He then worked as a librarian.[1]
He had positions at the University of California, becoming Associate Professor there in 1911; in 1919 a new department was set up for him, at Berkeley the Department of Social Institutions. A full professor in 1925, he retired in 1940, although he remained actively engaged in research until shortly before his death. From 1923 Department of Social Institutions at Berkeley.[1]