Martin Luther D'Ooge

Martin Luther D'Ooge (17 July 1839 in Zonnemaire, The Netherlands – 12 September 1915 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States) was a Dutch-born classics scholar. His Huguenot family emigrated to the US in 1851.

He was Professor of Greek Language and Literature at the University of Michigan from 1868 to 1912.

Martin Luther D'Ooge came from a Huguenot family, who emigrated from the Netherlands to the United States of America around 1851 and settled in Grand Rapids, Michigan. His father Leonard was a teacher; his mother was born Johanna Quintus. His younger brother was the philologist Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge () (1860–1940).

D'Ooge studied Classical Philology at the University of Michigan, to which he remained connected all his life. After being awarded his Bachelor's degree in 1862, he became headmaster of the Ann Arbor High School in 1863, a position he held until 1865. From 1864 to 1867 he studied theology at the Union Theological Seminary, by which he was awarded a Master's degree in 1865.

In 1867 he was appointed Assistant Professor of Ancient Languages at Michigan State Normal School (later Eastern Michigan University). However, he left after only one year, returning to the University of Michigan as Acting Professor of Greek language and literature.

In 1870 he was appointed full Professor and received a two-year sabbatical, which he used for a long educational trip to Germany. There he deepened his knowledge, studying under the philologists Georg Curtius and Justus Hermann Lipsius, and with them was awarded a Doctorate of Philisophy in 1872.

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