1909 Exchange Professors

Professor Edward Meyer of the University of Berlin will be the German exchange professor at Harvard during the present year. Professor Meyer arrived in New York last Wednesday, and is now on a short trip to Niagara Falls. He will probably reach Cambridge tomorrow.

The visiting professor is the most eminent authority in Europe on ancient history. He holds numerous degrees from the leading European universities, including the degree of Ph.D., conferred by the University of Leipzig in 1875, and that of Litt.D., which he received from Oxford in 1907. After studying at the Universities of Bonn and Leipzig, he became privat-dozent in ancient history at the latter university in 1879, and five years later was appointed Ausserordentliche Professor of Ancient History. The following year he accepted a similar post in the University of Breslau, from which he went to the University of Halle in 1889. In 1902 he became professor of ancient history at the University of Berlin, where his record has been brilliant.

His service at the University will fall in the first half-year. Professor Meyer's courses will be three in number: History 3a, a history of the ancient world from Alexander the Great to Augustus; History 45, covering the history and monuments of the ancient East; and History 20h, a research course intended primarily for graduates, in which the origin and opening of the Second Punic War will be considered. Each will count as a half-course.

Professor George Foot Moore, Frothingham Professor of the History of Religion, has been selected as Harvard exchange professor in Germany. He will lecture at the University of Berlin in the first half-year. Professor Moore has received honorary degrees from Harvard, Yale, Union Theological Seminary, Marietta, and Western Reserve University. He is the author of several critical editions of the Book of Judges, and has written many articles in Oriental and Biblical journals. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Oriental Society, the Society of Biblical Literature, and the Deutsche Morgenlandische Gesellschaft.