Kuno Meyer (20 December 1858 – 11 October 1919) was a Celtic scholar. December 20 is the 354th day of the year (355th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1858 (MDCCCLVIII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... October 11 is the 284th day of the year (285th in leap years). ... 1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... The Celtic languages are the languages descended from Proto-Celtic, or Common Celtic, spoken by ancient and modern Celts alike. ...

Born in Hamburg, Meyer studied at the University of Leipzig, taught by Ernst Windisch from 1879. He received his doctorate for his thesis Eine irische Version der Alexandersage (An Irish version of the Alexander Romance) in 1884. He then took up the post of lecturer in Teutonic languages at the new University College, Liverpool, the precursor of the University of Liverpool, established three years earlier. The smaller Alster lake at dusk Hamburg (German pronounciation: []; Low German: Hamborg, [haˑmbɔːχ]) is the second largest city in Germany and with Hamburg Harbour, its principal port, Hamburg is also the second largest port city in the European Union. ... The University of Leipzig (Universität Leipzig), located in Leipzig in the Free State and former Kingdom of Saxony, is one of the oldest universities in Europe. ... Ernst Wilhelm Oskar Windisch (4 September 1844, Dresden-30 October 1918, Dresden) was a German scholar. ... The Alexander Romance is any of several collections of legends concerning the mythical exploits of Alexander the Great. ... The Germanic languages form one of the branches of the Indo-European (IE) language family. ... Liverpool waterfront by night, as seen from the Wirral. ... The University of Liverpool is a university in the city of Liverpool, England in the United Kingdom. ...

He continued to publish on Irish and more general Celtic language topics, as well as producing textbooks for the German language. In 1896 founded, and jointly edited with Ludwig Christian Stern, the authoritative Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie.

In 1904 Meyer became Professor in the Celtic Languages at the Royal Irish Academy and editor of Ériu, the journal of the School of Irish Studies in Dublin (now part of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies). He was made a freeman of both Dublin and Cork in 1912. The Royal Irish Academy (RIA) is one of Irelands premier learned societies and cultural institutions. ... The Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS) (Institiúid Ard-Léinn Bhaile Átha Cliath in Irish) Dublin, Ireland was established in 1940 by the Taoiseach of the time, Eamon de Valera under the Institute For Advanced Studies Act, 1940. ... WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: 53. ... WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: 51. ...

On the outbreak of the First World War, Meyer left Ireland for the United States of America, where he lectured at Columbia and then, in November 1914, to Clan na Gael on Long Island. Meyer's inevitably pro-German opinions caused predictable outrage in Britain and Ireland, and as a result he was removed from the roll of freemen in Dublin and Cork and removed from his Honorary Professorship of Celtic at Liverpool. Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ... With Irish immigration to the United States of America in the 18th_century there arose Irish ethnic organizations. ... Mercator projection of Long Island Long Island is an island in New York, USA. At 1,377 square miles (3567 km²) and 7. ...

Meyer remained in the United States, where he met Florence Lewis in 1915 while in hospital in California. They married shortly afterwards. Florence went to Germany in 1916, Meyer in 1917. Meyer died on 11 October, 1919, in Leipzig. Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq. ... October 11 is the 284th day of the year (285th in leap years). ... [] (Sorbian/Lusatian: Lipsk) is the largest city in the Federal State (Bundesland) of Saxony in Germany. ...

External links

• Bibliography by Štěpán Kosík.
• Works by Kuno Meyer at University College Cork's CELT (Corpus of Electronic Texts)