Meyer
Meyer names 4 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Meyer GEORGE VON LENGERKE, American political leader
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
GEORGE VON LENGERKE, American political leader. Born in Boston in 1858, he graduated fra Harvard in 1879, and was then for twenty years in business as merchant and trustee. During part of this time he was on the Boston Common Council and Board of Aldermen, and in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, serving as Speaker, 1894-7. He was Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotientary to Italy 1900-5, and Ambassador to Russia, 1905-7. President Roosevelt made him Postmaster-General in 1907, and he was Secretary of the Navy under President Taft, 1909-13. He died in 1918.
Meyer CONRAD FERDINAND (mi'er)
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
CONRAD FERDINAND (mi'er), a Swiss poet and historical novelist; born in Zurich, Switzerland, Oct. 12, 1825. His style is graceful, and excels in character - drawing and in pictures of descriptive work. His novels are " Jürg Jenatsch " ( 1876), story of Switzerland in the 17th century, and "The Saint" (1880); two of the best historical novels of modern German literature. His poetical works include: "Hutten's Last Days" (1872), in "Poems" (1882), and in "Engelberg" (1873). His works were collected in 8 vols. (1912). He died in 1898.
Meyer KUNO, a German scholar of Celtic literature
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
KUNO, a German scholar of Celtic literature. In 1894 he became professor of Teutonic languages at the University College, Liverpool, and in 1911 profesor of Celtic at Berlin. He founded a school in Dublin for the study of Celtic, and the Irish patriots, anxious to make it the language of Ireland, accepted him with enthusiasium. His important contributions to Celtic literature led to an invitation from Harvard to lecture there, which he finally declined because of the strong pro-Ally leaning of that institution.
Meyer BALTHASAR HENRY, American economist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
BALTHASAR HENRY, American economist, born in Mequon, Wis. Studied at Berlin, Germany, and finished his education at University of Wisconsin. Taught sociology and political economy, then, in 1905, became chairman of Railroad Commission of Wisconsin. He was a member of the U. S. Railroad Securities Commission in 1910, and in 1911 was appointed member of Interstate Commerce Commission. He is the author of "Railway Legislation in the United States" (1903) and "A History of the Northern Securities Case" (1906).
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's, writing in 1921, still describes Kuno Meyer in the present tense, but he had in fact died in Leipzig in October 1919; his wartime pro-German speaking tour in the United States cost him the honorary freedoms of Dublin and Cork, and the delicate note about Harvard's "strong pro-Ally leaning" is the entry's only hint of that scandal. His School of Irish Learning in Dublin (founded 1903) and its journal Eriu long outlasted him, and he is remembered today chiefly for making early Irish lyric poetry readable in translation. Balthasar Henry Meyer, "appointed member of the Interstate Commerce Commission" in 1911, went on to serve on it until 1939 and died in 1954. Conrad Ferdinand Meyer's standing is much as Collier's left it: Jurg Jenatsch and Der Heilige are still read, though his tightly wrought ballads, especially "Die Fusse im Feuer," now carry his reputation more than the novels do.
Written for this edition, 2026.