Kuno Meyer

Kuno Meyer ( born December 20, 1858 in Hamburg, † October 11, 1919 in Leipzig ) was a German Keltologe.

Meyer, brother of the Ancient Historian Eduard Meyer, studied since 1879 at the University of Leipzig at Ernst Windisch and in 1884 with a thesis on An Irish version of the legend of Alexander ( an Irish collection of legends about Alexander the Great) Dr. phil. doctorate. He then became professor of Germanic languages ​​at the University College Liverpool, the forerunner of the University of Liverpool.

In the following years he wrote in English and German publications on the Irish, generally to the Celtic languages ​​and textbooks of German. With Ludwig Christian Stern 1896, he founded the influential magazine for celtische philology. In 1904, Meyer was Professor of Celtic Languages ​​at the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin and publisher of Ériu, the journal of the School of Irish Studies (now a department of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies ). He became in 1912 an honorary citizen of both Dublin and Cork.

In 1911 he was appointed as the successor of Heinrich Zimmer, who had held the first chair of Celtic Studies at the University of Berlin.

After the outbreak of the First World War, Meyer moved to the U.S. and held at Columbia University in New York City lectures. From 1914 he also held talks with the Irish Republican organization Clan na Gael on Long Iceland. Meyers clearly pro-German views caused in the UK and Ireland, some outrage and consequently the honorary citizenship of Dublin and Cork, he was stripped, as well as the Honorary Chair of Celtic Studies at the University of Liverpool. Nevertheless, Meyer remained in the United States and met in 1915 during a hospital stay in California Florence Lewis, whom he married shortly thereafter. From 1917 both lived in Germany, where Meyer died in 1919 in Leipzig.