Eduard Meyer (25 January 1855 – 31 August 1930) was a German historian. He was the brother of Celticist Kuno Meyer (1858–1919).

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Biography

Meyer was born in Hamburg and educated at the Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums and later at the universities of Bonn and Leipzig. After completing his studies, he spent one year in Istanbul. In 1879, he went to the University of Leipzig as Privatdozent. He was appointed professor of ancient history at Breslau in 1885, at Halle in 1889, and at Berlin in 1902. He lectured at Harvard in 1909 and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1910. That same year, he was elected to the American Philosophical Society. Honorary degrees were given him by Oxford, St. Andrews, Freiburg, and Chicago universities. He died in Berlin.

Egyptology

In 1904 Meyer was the first to note the Sothic cycle of the Heliacal rising of Sirius, which forms the basis for the traditional chronology of Egypt.

Works

His principal work is his Geschichte des Altertums (1884–1902; third edition, 1913). He also published: In English translation He was also a contributor to the Encyclopaedia Biblica (1903), the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica as well as to sections of The Historians' History of the World.