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ADLER, George J., philologist, born in Germany in 1821; died in New York, 24 August 1868. He was brought to New York at the age of twelve, and was graduated at the University of New York in 1844, in which institution he was professor of German from 1846 till 1854. He compiled a German-and-English dictionary, the first edition of which appeared in :New York in 1848, and also a German grammar and other textbooks, and published a lecture entitled "Poetry of the Arabs of Spain" (New York, 1868) ; "Wilhelm yon Humboldt's Linguistic Studies" (1868); and a translation, with notes, of Fauriel's "History of Provencal Poetry." He was insane, with occasional lucid intervals, for the last eight years of his life, and died in Bloomingdale asylum.
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