Word: paideia
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...Early Christianity & the Greek Paideia--Jaeger...
Werner W. Jaeger, University Professor, Emeritus, whose great work, Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture, was a landmark in classical studies, died at the age of 73 yesterday morning in Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, following injury suffered in a fall. Until his death, Jaeger continued to serve the University as director of the Institute of Classical Studies...
Just two weeks ago, Jaeger received the first copy of his latest work, "Early Christianity and Greek Paideia," from the Belknap Press of the Harvard University Press. This study, dealing with the vast historical process by which Christianity was Hellenized and Hellenic civilization became Christianized," was used on the Carl Newell Jackson Lectures he delivered here last fall...
...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 nurtured Western man. He left Hitler's Germany in the '30s, taught at the Universities of California and Chicago before going in 1939 to Harvard, where the Institute of 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...