Kuno Meyer

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Kuno Meyer (20 December 1858 – 11 October 1919) was a Celtic scholar.

Born in Hamburg, Meyer studied at the University of Leipzig, taught by Ernst Windisch from 1879. He received his doctorate for his thesis Eine irische Version der Alexandersage (An Irish version of the Alexander Romance) in 1884. He then took up the post of lecturer in Teutonic languages at the new University College, Liverpool, the precursor of the University of Liverpool, established three years earlier.

He continued to publish on Irish and more general Celtic language topics, as well as producing textbooks for the German language. In 1896 founded, and jointly edited with Ludwig Christian Stern, the authoritative Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie.

In 1904 Meyer became Professor in the Celtic Languages at the Royal Irish Academy and editor of Ériu, the journal of the School of Irish Studies in Dublin (now part of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies). He was made a freeman of both Dublin and Cork in 1912.

On the outbreak of the First World War, Meyer left Ireland for the United States of America, where he lectured at Columbia and then, in November 1914, to Clan na Gael on Long Island. Meyer's inevitably pro-German opinions caused predictable outrage in Britain and Ireland, and as a result he was removed from the roll of freemen in Dublin and Cork and removed from his Honorary Professorship of Celtic at Liverpool.

Meyer remained in the United States, where he met Florence Lewis in 1915 while in hospital in California. They married shortly afterwards. Florence went to Germany in 1916, Meyer in 1917. Meyer died on 11 October, 1919, in Leipzig.

[edit] External links

• Bibliography by Štěpán Kosík.
• Works by Kuno Meyer at University College Cork's CELT (Corpus of Electronic Texts)

Persondata
NAME	Meyer, Kuno
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	German linguist
DATE OF BIRTH	1858-12-20
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH	1919-10-11
PLACE OF DEATH	Leipzig