LECTURER FROM GERMANY

Professor Eugen Kuhnemann, of Bonn University, has been appointed as Germany's representative at Harvard for the next college year, to succeed Professor Wilhelm Ostwald of Leipzig, in the second year of the international interchange, now regularly established between the University and the German Government. His courses at the University next winter will probably deal chiefly with the classic epoch of German literature, and with German literature and thought of the present day. Harvard's representative has not yet been announced.

Professor Kuhnemann is a scholar of remarkable attainments. Although under 40 years of age he has stood out in Germany, for more than 10 years; as one of the leaders in the new literary and spiritual movement which is a part of the general turning of the age toward idealistic views of life. His first book to attract general attention dealt with Schiller's Kantian studies and their influence upon the composition of "Wallenstein." Then followed his "Life of Herder," the best constructed and most illuminating biography of this forerunner of the classic epoch of German literature. This was followed by two philosophical treatises, "The Foundations of Philosophy," and "The Fundamental Conceptions of the Spinozian System"; and, finally by the "Life of Schiller," a book which may be said to belong to the highest kind of literary biography, in that it presents as an inseparable whole, the poet, his works, and his time.

From 1884 to 1901, Professor Kuhnemann was Privatdozent at the University of Marburg, and in 1901 he was made Professor Extraordinarius. In 1903 he was called to Bonn, and in the same year he was charged by the Prussian Government with organizing the newly founded Royal Academy at Posen, a task which he fulfilled with singular success. In the autumn of 1905, he was sent by his government on a lecturing tour through the United States, during which he spoke to audiences in most of the important cities and universities.