Former coleagues, students, and friends of Werner W. Jaeger filled Memorial Church yesterday afternoon for the funeral of the prominent classicist who died at the age of 73 Thursday.
Jaeger, University Professor, Emeritus, was Director of the University's Institute of Classical Studies until his death.
At the service, John H. Finley, Jr. '25, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature, delivered a eulogy. Earlier, Krister Stendahl, John H. Morison Professor of New Testament Studies, mentioned Jaeger's "truly great legacy of scholarship" and "quiet, joyful devotion to study."
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