Frank W. Ikle

Frank William Ikle (1921–2015) was a Swiss-American historian and history educator. He was professor of history at the University of New Mexico.

About Born in Zürich, Switzerland, to Martin W. Ikle and Helen Prichystal, Ikle studied Asian Studies and History at the University of California at Berkeley, earning his BA in 1941 and PhD in 1953. In 1944 he married Maurine Barnes, with whom he had three children.

He contributed to Japan's Foreign Policy, 1868-1941: A Research Guide by James W. Morley and The spiritual expansion of medieval Latin Christendom. The Asian missions by James D. Ryan.

Publications German-Japanese Relations 1936–1940 (New York: Bookman, 1956). Japanese-German peace negotiations during World War I (Washington: American Historical Association, 1965) "The conversion of the Alani by the Franciscan missionaries in China in the fourteenth century", ASJ 5:2 (1967) "Sir Aurel Stein : a Victorian geographer in the tracks of Alexander", Isis, vol. 59 (1968), pp. 144–55. (with Woodbridge Bingham and Hilary Conroy) Southwest Asia : a brief history (Berkeley, CA, 1956) (with Woodbridge Bingham and Hilary Conroy), A History of Asia: Old empires, Western penetration, and the rise of new nations since 1600 (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1974)