Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-10-15 | Page 1 | Dr. Kuno Meyer Dies in Leipsic

DR. Kl'NO MFYFR DIESJNLEIPSrC Noted Professor of the Celtic Language and Literature at Dublin University. LONDON, Tuesday, Oct. 14 Announcement An-nouncement Is raadp in Berlin of the death in Leipsic of Dr Kuno Meyer, professor of the Celtic language and literature at the University of Dublin. Dr. Kuno Meyer was a lecturer widely wide-ly known in the United States He was born in Hamburg. December 2n. 1858. and received his early education in that city and at Dessau. Later he became a student at the University ot Leipsic, specializing in Celtic philology. philol-ogy. Subsequently he became director of the School of Irish Learning in the University of Dublin, and th n enter I tho faculty of the University of Liverpool Liver-pool lie was a voluminous writer, among his works being books on Irish legend and history. Dr. Meyer was virtually the first prominent person to pjJ-'rt rfiaf the war bot-a Germany and England, France and Russia, would develop Into a world conflict. In 1917 he wrote an article entitled "Our Waf Aims In Enemy En-emy Eyes," which quoted a. convi tion with Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and attracted wldo attention. Later he wrot an article for the Berlin prt saying Germany had lost the friend ship of the United States after the sinking of the Lusltania. I r Meyer was in this country al the nine of Hie catastrophe. 4