Eduard Meyer

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Eduard Meyer.

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 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. Honorary degrees were given him by Oxford, St. Andrews, Freiburg, and Chicago universities.

He died at 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)

He was also a contributor to the Encyclopaedia Biblica (1903) and 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Notes

References

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Thurston, H. T.; Moore, F., eds. (1905). "^{article name needed}". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). "Meyer, Eduard". Encyclopedia Americana.

External links

Works written by or about Eduard Meyer at Wikisource
Complete German text of Meyer's Geschichte des Altertums ("History of antiquity")

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 71438412 LCCN: n88601846 GND: 118733281 SUDOC: 030680913 BNF: cb12204859m NDL: 00524428

Persondata
Name	Meyer, Eduard
Alternative names
Short description	German historian
Date of birth	25 January 1855
Place of birth	Hamburg
Date of death	31 August 1930
Place of death	Berlin

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