Louis Dyer (1851–1908) was an American educator and author born in

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in the

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. He graduated at

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in 1874, and at

Balliol College Balliol College () is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. One of Oxford's oldest colleges, it was founded around 1263 by John I de Balliol, a landowner from Barnard Castle in County Durham, who provided the ...

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, in 1878. He was assistant professor of Greek at Harvard (1881–1887), lecturer at

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(1889) and at Balliol College, Oxford (1893–1896), and acting professor of Greek at

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(1895–96). Dyer lectured before the Royal Institution in 1896 and in 1900 gave a series of lectures at the

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which was repeated at many colleges and universities. He published a translation of

Luigi Cossa Luigi Cossa (May 27, 1831 – May 10, 1896), Italian economist, was born in Milan. Life Educated at the universities of Pavia, Vienna and Leipzig, he was appointed professor of political economy at Pavia in 1858. Apart from this Cossa was the autho ...

's ''Introduction to the Study of Political Economy'' (1893).

Books

* ''The Greek Question and Answer'' (1884) * ''Studies of the Gods in Greece'' (1891) * ''Oxford as it is'' (1902) * ''Machiavelli and the Modern State'' (1904) * ''The Olympian Council House and Council'' (1908)

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* 1851 births 1908 deaths Historians from Illinois American information and reference writers Harvard University alumni Writers from Chicago Cornell University faculty Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford {{US-historian-stub