in 1978.Īfter teaching as an assistant professor in Munich and Marburg and preparing his “Habilitationsschrift” (second Ph.D.) on the figure of Antinous, Emperor Hadrian’s lover, in literary and art historical sources, Hugo took on a curatorial position at the Bavarian National Museum in 1987, in charge of its extensive collection of plaster casts of Classical sculptures, one of the best in Europe. ![]() The Princeton community will lose an example of extraordinary conviviality and a colleague who loves to have fluent conversations in an astonishing number of what he likes to call “European dialects” with colleagues from all over the world - and recite major works of poetry in yet another language (including Celtic!).Įxtensive travels in all of Europe and the Middle East, an inclination that he never outgrew, prepared the philologist, comparative linguist and literary historian for the study of Classical art and archaeology, a field in which Hugo earned his Ph.D. ![]() With the retirement of Hugo Meyer this summer, the Department of Art and Archaeology will lose its specialist for Hellenistic and Roman art after 23 years of service.
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