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Professor Paul Clemen, Ph.D., of Bonn University, has been appointed in accordance with the standing agreement between the University and the Cultusministerium of the German Government, as representative of Germany at the University for the next college year, to succeed Professor Eugen Kuehnemann of Bonn, in the third year of the international exchange. The subjects of his courses will be announced later...
Professor Clemen was born in 1866 at Sommerfeld, near Leipzig. He attended the Fuerstenschule in Grimma, and later studied at the Universities of Leipzig, Bonn and Strassburg. In 1893 he was made Provincial Conservator of the Rhine Province, and in 1898 became Professor Extraordinarius of the History of Art at Bonn. He was called to the Art Academy at Dusseldorf as Professor of the History of Art and of Literature in 1899, but in 1902 was recalled to Bonn...
...would have succeeded far better had he displayed half the good taste that he has the humor. This last characteristic is the most noteworthy of the good qualities of the book which is really a combination of satire and wit. English nobility and royalty are lashed unsparingly by Mr. Clemen's strokes of sarcasm, and the reasonable fear is that he has carried his absurd exaggeration too far for any beneficial effect to result from...