Background
Meyer was born at Hamburg and educated at the Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums and later at the universities of Bonn and Leipzig.
archaeologist egyptologist historian university professor
Meyer was born at Hamburg and educated at the Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums and later at the universities of Bonn and Leipzig.
Hamburg. Studied Philology, history, and oriental languages at the Universities of Bonn, 1872, and Leipzig, 1872-1875. Was promoted Doctor Philosophy, in Leipzig in March 1875. Doctor of Literature Oxfordshire.
He was the brother of Celticist Kuno Meyer (1858-1919). 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 and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1910. Honorary degrees were given him by Oxford, Saint Andrews, Freiburg, and Chicago universities.
He died in Berlin.
German Archaeological Institute. Russian Academy of Sciences. Academy of Sciences of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics.
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.