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Harvard's .benign, bemused Werner Wilhelm Jaeger, 70, world-renowned interpreter of ancient Greek humanism, one of the first scholars to bear Harvard's exalted University Professor title. At nine, German-born Classicist Jaeger fascinatedly read his first Latin grammar straight through, at 25 took over the University of Basel's Greek chair, once occupied by Nietzsche. His biography of Aristotle (1923) revolutionized classical scholarship when he was still a young professor at the University of Berlin; his monumental Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture is a three-volume university, a gold mine of the ideas that...
Werner W. Jaeger, University Professor, who retires next month after many years of brilliant work in the classics, and Ernest F. Gombrich, visiting professor of Fine Arts and During Lawrence Professor of the History of Art at London University, are two more high on the list of prospectives...
...University Professor, Emeritus, Jaeger, now 70 years old, will continue to work on his ten-volume critical study of Gregory of Nyssa, the early Greek church father and Christian philosopher...
This spring Jaeger is teaching an undergraduate course on the philosophical development of Aristotle in Classics and Philosophy, in addition to a graduate seminar on Horace in the Classics Department. He is also director of the Institute for Classical Studies...
...Jaeger's best-known works are Aristotle: Fundamentals of the History of His Development, which revolutionized Aristotelian scholarship 35 years ago, and Paideia, a three-volume study of the ideals of Greek culture...