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Professor Wilaniowitz -M 311endorff Professor Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Mollendorff, who died

in Berlin on September 25th at the age of 83, was unquestionably the leading Greek scholar of our time. He was the son of a Prussian squire in what was then the Prussian province of Posen. He took his degree at Berlin in 1870 and straightway went to serve in the Franco-Prussian War. He was chosen in preference to Nietzsche as professor at Gottingen and later returned to Berlin. He married Mommsen's daughter. Most students of the classics are familiar with some of his editions of Greek texts. Scholars respected him both for his exact learning and for the wide range of his literary studies. He was emphatically not a pedant but a true Hellenist, and many friends in this country will mourn his loss. *