Edmund Trowbridge Dana

Edmund Trowbridge Dana Jr. (1818 to 1869) was an American lawyer and author, born at Cambridge, Massachusetts, the younger brother of Richard Henry Dana Jr. and a nephew of Judge Edmund Trowbridge of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts. He graduated from the University of Vermont in 1839 and from Cambridge Law School in 1841, and practiced in Boston in partnership with his brother. Failing health took him to Europe, where he gave special attention to Roman civil law and to history and philosophy in their bearings upon law, and in 1854 he received the degree of J.U.D. from the University of Heidelberg. He wrote for periodicals, translated works of Robert von Mohl and other German jurists, and in his last years helped his brother prepare a new edition of Wheaton's Elements of International Law.