Kuno Meyer

Kuno Meyer
Kuno Meyer
Born	(1858-12-20)20 December 1858 Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
Died	11 October 1919(1919-10-11) (aged 60) Leipzig, Germany
Occupation	Academic
Nationality	German

Kuno Meyer (20 December 1858 – 11 October 1919) was a German scholar, distinguished in the field of Celtic philology and literature. His pro-German stance at the start of World War I in the United States was a source of controversy. His brother was the distinguished classical scholar, Eduard Meyer.

Meyer was considered first and foremost a lexicographer among Celtic scholars but is known by the general public in Ireland rather as the man who introduced them to Selections from Ancient Irish Poetry (1911).^[1][2]

He founded and edited four journals devoted to Celtic Studies,^[2] published numerous texts and translations of Old and Middle Irish romances and sagas, and wrote prolifically, his topics ranging to name origins and ancient law.^[3]