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Kuno Meyer

Kuno Meyer (20 December 1858 – 11 October 1919) studied at Leipzig University and was awarded his PhD in 1884 for a thesis entitled Eine irische Version der Alexandersage – a collection of Irish texts on Alexander the Great. He progressed to a job at the University College of Liverpool where he gained professorship in 1895.
He founded the School of Irish Learning in 1903 with John Strachan and also founded the journal Ériu, which Meyer edited until 1914.
He dedicated a lot of his scientific work to Early Irish Poetry and discovered metrical rules, previously unknown to scholars. (Was he a scientist?? Or did he simply have a methodical approach to the subject and hence make these discoveries???)  Meyer co-founded the Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie with Ludwig Christian Stern, the first volume of which was published in 1897.In cooperation with Ludwig Christian Stern he founded the Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie and published its first volume in 1897. He remained editor of the ZCP until 1918 (vol. XII).
In 1911 he succeeded Heinrich Zimmer in the Professorship of Celtic Studies at Berlin University. Three years later he emigrated to the USA where he began lecturing at Columbia Univesity, New York City.