William Stuart Messer
American classical philologist
About William Stuart Messer
Lived 1882 – 1960 (aged 78). William Stuart Messer was an American classical philologist and university teacher.
Biography Messer was born on August 19, 1882, in Washington, D.C., to William Messer and Charlotte Morris Taylor. He received his A.B. from Columbia University in 1905 and Ph.D. in 1917.
Messer was the head of the classical department of the Barnard School for Boys. He was an instructor at Columbia from 1911 to 1919, and joined the Dartmouth College faculty in 1919 and was Daniel Webster Professor in 1938 until his retirement in 1951.
Messer died on December 21, 1960, in Beverly, Massachusetts.
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