Margaret S. Ogden

Margaret S. Ogden
Born(1909-08-02)August 2, 1909
DiedApril 7, 1988(1988-04-07) (aged 78)
Occupations
  • Lexicographer
  • medievalist
Spouse
Henry V. S. Ogden
(m. 1934)
Children2
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship (1960)
Academic background
Alma mater
Academic work
DisciplineMiddle Ages
Sub-disciplineMedieval medicine of Western Europe
InstitutionsUniversity of Michigan

Margaret Sinclair Ogden (née Holderman; August 2, 1909 – April 7, 1988) was an American historian and lexicographer. A 1960 Guggenheim Fellow, she was a historian of medieval medicine of Western Europe, and in addition to publishing two edited versions of medieval medicine texts, co-authored English Taste in Landscape in the Seventeenth Century (1955) with her husband Henry V. S. Ogden. She also worked at the University of Michigan as a researcher and editor for their Middle English Dictionary for four decades.