Giger Professor of Latin

The Giger Professorship of Latin is an endowed chair for the teaching of Latin at Princeton University. ^[1]

Established by the gift of George Musgrave Giger, who served as Professor of Greek and Latin at Princeton from 1847–1865, the chair has been held by a senior Latinist at Princeton intermittently since 1883, when University president James McCosh invited Andrew Fleming West to fill the newly founded position. ^[2]

List of Giger Professors

• Andrew Fleming West (1883–1928)
• George E. Duckworth (1940–1971)
• J. Arthur Hanson (1981–1985)
• R. Elaine Fantham (1988–1999)
• Denis Feeney (2000–2022)
• Andrew Feldherr (2022–)

See also

• Corpus Christi Professor of Latin, University of Oxford
• Kennedy Professor of Latin, University of Cambridge
• Professor of Latin, University College London
• Sather Professorship of Classical Literature, University of California, Berkeley

References

1. "Professorships". dof.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2025-11-19.
2. "Andrew Fleming West". princetonianamuseum.org. Retrieved 2025-11-19.