Eduard Meyer
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Eduard Meyer (25 January 1855 – 31 August 1930) was a German historian.
Biography
Meyer was born at Hamburg and educated at the Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums[1] and later at the universities of Bonn and Leipzig. After completing his studies, he spent one year in Istanbul. In 1879, he went to the University of Leipzig as privatdocent. He was appointed professor of ancient history at Breslau in 1885, at Halle in 1889, and at Berlin in 1902. He lectured at Harvard in 1909 and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1910. Honorary degrees were given him by Oxford, St. Andrews, Freiburg, and Chicago universities.
He died in Berlin.
Works
His principal work is his Geschichte des Altertums (1884-1902; third edition, 1913). He also published:
- Forschungen zur alten Geschichte (1892-1899).
- Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der Gracchen (1894).
- Wirtschaftliche Entwicklung des Altertums (1895).
- Die Entstehung des Judentums (1896).
- Zur Theorie und Methodik der Geschichte (1902).
- Israeliten und ihre Nachbarstämme (1906).
- Theopomps Hellenika (1909).
- Der Papyrosfund in Elephantine (1912).
- Ursprung und Geschichte der Mormonen (1912).
- Nordamerika und Deutschland (1915).
In English translation
- "Alexander the Great and Universal Monarchy," The International Quarterly, Vol. VIII (1903).
- England; its Political Organization and Development and the War Against Germany (1916).[2]
He was also a contributor to the Encyclopaedia Biblica (1903) and 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Notes
- ↑ Momigliano, Arnaldo (1994). "Introduction to a Discussion of Eduard Meyer." In: A. D. Momigliano: Studies on Modern Scholarship. Berkeley: University of California Press, p. 209.
- ↑ Robertson, J.M. (1917). Britain Versus Germany; an Open Letter to Professor Eduard Meyer. London: T. Fisher Unwin Ltd.
References
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External links
Works written by or about Eduard Meyer at Wikisource- Lua error in Module:Internet_Archive at line 573: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Complete German text of Meyer's Geschichte des Altertums ("History of antiquity")
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