Jaeger, Werner (Wilhelm) (1888–1961)

German-born US classicist. Although his works on Aristotle and the Cappadocian Church Father Gregory of Nyssa are still highly regarded, he is best known for the less scholarly Paideia 1933, which examines the educational, intellectual, and spiritual development and achievements of the Greeks. He taught at the University of Chicago 1936–39 and at Harvard 1939–58, and strongly influenced such classicists as John H Finley and Gilbert Highet.

Born in Lobberich, he received his PhD at the University of Berlin in 1914. When only 26, he became a professor at the University of Basel, Switzerland, a position once held by Friedrich Nietzsche. In 1921 he returned to the University of Berlin.