Brian Patrick McGuire
Brian Patrick McGuire is an American–Danish professor emeritus of history, lecturer and author.
Family
He is the son of sports journalist and publicity director of the San Francisco 49ers, Dan Francis McGuire and high school teacher Phyllis Evelyn Goemmer, the fourth of nine children. He married Ann Kirstin Pedersen in 1970 and adopted a son from Korea in 1980.Education and academic career
McGuire obtained a BA in history and Latin from the University of California at Berkeley in 1968; he had the highest grade point average in his graduating class. He became a Fulbright Scholar at Balliol College, Oxford University, England, where he was supervised by Sir Richard Southern and was granted a D.Phil. in history in 1971. In 1970, he was a tutor in "The Great Books of Western Civilisation" at Saint John's College, Annapolis, Maryland.McGuire emigrated to Denmark in 1971 and worked at first for an electronics firm; from 1971 to 1972 he taught high school. He moved on to the Institute for History at Copenhagen University, where he was a post-doctoral fellow from 1972 to 1974.
McGuire became a Danish citizen in 1976. From 1975 to 1996, he was a Lecturer at the Institute for Greek and Latin at Copenhagen University. In 1996 McGuire moved to Roskilde University, where he was a professor in medieval history. He retired in 2012.
McGuire was elected Corresponding Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America in 2011.