Wilhelm Meyer (1 April 1845,

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– 9 March 1917,

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) was a German classical scholar, initially a librarian and literary scholar, who worked also on musicology. He became professor of Classical and Medieval Latin Philology at the

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. He was known as Meyer aus Speyer (Meyer from Speyer), from his birthplace

. He was an authority on the prosody of medieval Latin verse, publishing on it papers that were collected in three volumes of his ''Gesammelte Abhandlungen zur mittellateinischen Rhythmik''. ''Die Oxforder Gedichte des Primas ...'' identified poems of

Hugh Primas Hugh Primas of Orléans was a Latin lyric poet of the 12th century, a scholar from Orléans who was jokingly called ''Primas'', "the Primate", by his friends at the University of Paris. He was probably born in the 1090s and may have died about 1160. ...

, up until then only a name. ''Der Gelegenheitsdichter Venantius Fortunatus'' (1901) worked out the chronology of the hymnodist

Venantius Fortunatus Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus ( 530 600/609 AD; french: Venance Fortunat), known as Saint Venantius Fortunatus (, ), was a Latin poet and hymnographer in the Merovingian Court, and a bishop of the Early Church who has been venerate ...

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Family

His son Rudolf changed his surname, and as Rudolf (Meyer) Riefstahl is known as an archaeologist.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Meyer, Wilhelm 1845 births 1917 deaths German classical scholars