Werner W. Jaeger, formerly a professor at the University of Berlin, and since 1936 a professor at the University of Chicago, was appointed yesterday as University professor effective September 1.
Known as one of the world's most eminent authorities in the field of ancient classics, Jaeger will hold one of the University Professorships recently created by President Conant by which the holder is free to make his own teaching and research schedules and may teach in any department of the University.
Recognizing Jaeger's attainments in the fields of classical literature, philology, archaeology, and philosophy, the University conferred an honorary Litt, D. degree on him at the Tercentenary Celebration in 1936 with the citation "A critical student of the great master who once dominated the universities, an eminent teacher of the eternal wisdom of Aristotle."
Born in Lobberich, Germany in 1838, and educated at the Universities of Marburg and Berlin, Jaeger became well-known in his twenties by establishing the order and date of the books of Aristotle's "Metaphysics" of which the manuscript tradition had become confused.
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