Kuno Meyer
Kuno Meyer (born December 20, 1858 in Hamburg , † October 11, 1919 in Leipzig ) was a German Celtologist .
Meyer, brother of the ancient historian Eduard Meyer , studied at the University of Leipzig under Ernst Windisch from 1879 and was awarded a doctorate in 1884 with a thesis on an Irish version of the Alexander saga (an Irish collection of legends about Alexander the great ). phil. PhD. He then became a lecturer in Germanic languages at University College Liverpool , the forerunner of the University of Liverpool .
In the following years he wrote publications in English and German on Irish , in general on the Celtic languages and textbooks on the German language. With Ludwig Christian Stern he founded the influential journal for Celtic philology in 1896 . In 1904 Meyer became Professor of Celtic Languages at the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin and editor of Ériu , the journal of the School of Irish Studies (now a division of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies ). He became an honorary citizen of both Dublin and Cork in 1912 .
In 1911 he was appointed to the Berlin University as the successor to Heinrich Zimmer , who had held the first chair in Celtology . In the same year he was accepted as a full member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences .
After the outbreak of the First World War Meyer moved to the USA and lectured at Columbia University in New York . From November 1914 he also gave lectures at the Irish republican organization Clan na Gael on Long Island . Meyer's clearly pro-German views caused some outrage in Great Britain and Ireland, and as a result, he was stripped of honorary citizenship of Dublin and Cork , as well as an honorary professorship in Celtology at the University of Liverpool. Nevertheless, Meyer stayed in the United States and met Florence Lewis during a hospital stay in California in 1915, whom he married shortly thereafter. From 1917 both lived in Germany, where Meyer died in Leipzig in 1919.
literature
- Wolfgang Greller: Meyer, Kuno. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , p. 311 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Bernhard Maier : childhood in the early days between the Alster and Elbe. Kuno Meyer's diaries 1868–1874 , Ergon-Verlag, Würzburg 2016 (Bibliotheca academica, History series, Volume 4), ISBN 3-95650-163-2 .
- Bernhard Maier : Celtologist between the Empire and the British Empire. Kuno Meyer's letters to correspondents in Germany and Austria, 1874–1919, Ergon-Verlag, Würzburg 2016 (Bibliotheca academica, History series, Volume 6) ISBN 3-95650-166-7 .
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Web links
- Newspaper article about Kuno Meyer in the press kit of the 20th century of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meyer, Kuno |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Celtologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 20, 1858 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 11, 1919 |
| Place of death | Leipzig |