The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-10-02
AN INTERESTING EVENT.
Germanys Greatest Scientist at Yale
DR. Wilhelm tooernfaId,e T .aot,,ra,

Germany's Greatest Scientist at Yale
Dr. Wilhelm Doerpfeld's Lectures.
A great scholar and scientist, in
many respects 1sGermany's greatest
archaeologist, will begin his series of
lectures in Al Osborn hall this (Friday)
evening, October 2. DR. Doerpfeld is
well known in all classical and scien-
tific circles, and his fame is world
wide. He has been for nineteen
years in Greece. When a young man
he studied mathematics, but finding no
opening in that line he turned his great
energies and. abilities to engineering,
and is the constructor of an important
railroad in Germany. But in 1885 DR..
Lebhemann. of renown as an explorer
in the remains of ancient Troy, secured
DR.. Doerpfeld to furnish the necessary
scientific knowledge to complete the ex-
cavations at Troy.
The famous engineers scientific ar
chitectural knowledge was just the ele-
ment needed to push the work to a sue
cessful completion, To him we owe our
knowledge of the Greek house and the
Greek temple; to him we owe our
knowls dye of the Troy of Homer's time;
he has given most telling stimulus to
the discoveries of modern times. In
1886 he was made second secretary to
the German institute of archaeology in
Athens; in 1885 he was elected first sec
rotary. In 1886 he and DIR. Schliemann
made an especial visit from Athens to
London to give their testimony before
the Hellenic society The discoveries
made in Athens, in Troy, in Crete, in
Tiryns, in Mycene, under the direct
supervision Of this distinguished archi-
tect, are as trustworthy as they are re-
markable In 1895 Yale college con-
ferred the degree of LII. D. upon Dr.
| Doerpfeld, the first degree of the kind
| ever given to a scholar from another
| country by this university.
The first part of this week DR.. Doerp-
| field was in Cornell, giving a course of
three lectures there; the latter half of
| the week he will be in New Haven and
| begin his series of six lectures here at
| AL Osborn hall, on October 2. The lee
lures will be illustrated by full ster-
eopticon views from studies never be-
| fore presented. All lectures by him are
free. He speaks very clear and lucid
| German, and is remarkably forcible
and distinct. His enunciation is per-
feet. The program of lectures is here
given:
| Friday, October g. at p. M, Troy"
| Monday, OCTOBER 5, at 8 p. m, My
Gene and Tiry7s."
Tuesday, October 6, at p. m, "Olym-
pia.''
Thursday, October 5, at p. m, "The
Acropolis of Athens"
Friday, October 8, at p. m, Recent
Excavations in Greece"
Tuesday, October 10, at s p. m, 1.-THE
Theater of Dionysus in Athens"
DR.. Doerpfeld goes to Princeton the
21st and 22d of October, where he will
receive an honorary degree, then sail
ing for Europe, late in the month.
Many noted scholars in this country
have already accepted invitations to be
present. Among them are to be Presi-
dent Gilman of Johns Hopkins; E. c.
Stedman's Yale's poet. and William
Hayes Ward of New York; President
Mrs. Irvine of Wellesley, Professor
Lord of Wellesley, Professors Charles
Eliot Norton, j. H. Thayer and F. Dali
len of Harvard, Professors Ware
Prince, Perry and Wheeler of Colum-
bia; Professor Sloane of Princeton, and
Mrs. Professor Leach of Vassar.
DR.. Doerpfeld is the one man capa-
BILE of speaking with authority on the
subjects treated in his lectures. AL
are welcome; all are invited to come;
all lectures are free; none should miss