14 Facts About Werner Jaeger

Werner Wilhelm Jaeger was a German-American classicist.

Werner Wilhelm Jaeger was born in Lobberich, Rhenish Prussia in the German Empire.

Werner Jaeger attended school in Lobberich and at the Gymnasium Thomaeum in Kempen.

Werner Jaeger studied at the University of Marburg and University of Berlin.

At only 26 years old, Werner Jaeger was called to the professorial chair in Greek at the University of Basel in Switzerland once held by Friedrich Nietzsche.

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Werner Jaeger expressed his veiled disapproval in 1937 with Humanistische Reden und Vortraege, and his book Demosthenes based on his Sather lecture from 1934.

Werner Jaeger's messages were fully understood in German university circles, with Nazi academics sharply attacking him.

Werner Jaeger then moved to Harvard University to continue his edition of the Church father Gregory of Nyssa on which he had started before World War I Jaeger would remain in Cambridge, Massachusetts, until his death.

Only two years after editing Gregory of Nyssa's Contra Eunomium, Werner Jaeger became famous with his 1923 groundbreaking study on Aristotle, Aristoteles: Grundlegung einer Geschichte seiner Entwicklung, which was translated into English in 1934 as Aristotle: Fundamentals of the History of His Development.

Werner Jaeger founded two journals in 1925: Die Antike and the influential review journal Gnomon .

Werner Jaeger was the editor of the works of church father Gregory of Nyssa, Gregorii Nysseni Opera, editing Gregory's major work Contra Eunomium .

Werner Jaeger is perhaps best known for his multivolume work Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture, an extensive consideration of both the earliest practices and later philosophical reflections on the cultural nature of education in Ancient Greece, which he hoped would restore a decadent early 20th century Europe to the values of its Hellenic origins.

Werner Jaeger's last lecture, Early Christianity and Greek Paideia was a comprehensive summary of his life's work covering nearly one thousand years of Greek philology, philosophy and theology from Homer, the Pre-Socratic philosophers and Plato to the Church Fathers.

Werner Jaeger's position concerning the history of the interpretation of Plato and Aristotle has been summarized effectively by Harold Cherniss of Johns Hopkins University.