{{Short description|American educator and author (1851–1908)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2025}} '''Louis Dyer''' (1851–1908) was an American educator and writer born in Chicago in the U.S. state of Illinois. He graduated at Harvard University in 1874, and at Balliol College, Oxford, in 1878. He was assistant professor of Greek at Harvard (1881–1887), lecturer at Lowell Institute (1889) and at Balliol College, Oxford (1893–1896), and acting professor of Greek at Cornell University (1895–96). Dyer lectured before the Royal Institution in 1896 and in 1900 gave a series of lectures at the University of California which was repeated at many colleges and universities. He published a translation of Luigi Cossa's ''An Introduction to the Study of Political Economy'' (1893).<ref>{{cite book |author= Cossa, Luigi |author-link= Luigi Cossa |translator= Dyer, Louis |url=https://archive.org/details/introductiontost00cossuoft/page/n5/mode/2up?view=theater |place= London |publisher=Macmillan |year= 1893 |title= An Introduction to the Study of Political Economy |accessdate= 14 September 2023}}</ref>
==Books== * ''The Greek Question and Answer'' (1884)<ref name="Dyer1884">{{cite book|author=Louis Dyer|title=The Greek question and answer|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UxwFARMWqycC|accessdate=19 September 2012|year=1884|publisher=Privately printed}}</ref> * ''Studies of the Gods in Greece'' (1891)<ref name="Dyer1891">{{cite book|author=Louis Dyer|title=Studies of the gods in Greece at certain sanctuaries recently excavated: Being eight lectures given in 1890 at the Lowell Institute|url=https://archive.org/details/StudiesOfTheGodsInGreeceAtCertainSanctuariesRecentlyExcavated|accessdate=19 September 2012|year=1891|publisher=Macmillan and Co.}}</ref> * ''Oxford as it is'' (1902)<!-- Note, title really is in small letters like this --><ref name="Dyer1902">{{cite book|author=Louis Dyer|title=Oxford as it is: being a guide to rules of collegiate residence and university requirements for degrees|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xSoBAAAAYAAJ|accessdate=19 September 2012|year=1902|publisher=Macmillan}}</ref> * ''Machiavelli and the Modern State'' (1904)<ref name="Dyer1904">{{cite book|author=Louis Dyer|title=Machiavelli and the modern state: chapters on his "Prince", his use of history and his idea of morals, being three lectures delivered in 1899 at the Royal Institution|url=https://archive.org/details/machiavelliandm01dyergoog|accessdate=19 September 2012|year=1904|publisher=Ginn}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WTPmAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA146|page=146|volume=23|title =Review of ''Machiavelli and the Modern State'' by Louis Dyer|journal=The Oxford Magazine|date = January 25, 1905|publisher = The Proprietors}}</ref> * ''The Olympian Council House and Council'' (1908)<ref name="Dyer1908">{{cite book|author=Louis Dyer|title=The Olympian council house and council|url=https://archive.org/details/jstor-310319|accessdate=19 September 2012|year=1908}}</ref>
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==External links== * {{Internet Archive author |sname=Louis Dyer}}
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