Wilhelm Meyer (philologist)
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Wilhelm Meyer (philologist)
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Wilhelm Meyer was a German classical scholar, initially a librarian and literary scholar, who worked also on musicology. He became professor of Classical and Medieval Latin Philology at the University of Göttingen. He was known as Meyer aus Speyer, from his birthplace Speyer.
Meyer wrote about the history of Greek and Latin hexameter poetry, famously suggesting the three Meyer rules for Hellenistic poetry. He was an authority on the prosody of medieval Latin verse, publishing on it papers that w
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German classical scholar (1845-1917)
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2007-03-09T16:17:29Z
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2024-08-27T08:27:27Z
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