Gustave Adolphus Harrer

Life and Orange County connections

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1. fall 1935 The University adds three courses in the Bible As the first step toward the department of the history and literature of religions that the faculty and trustees had authorized, the University offered three Bible electives for juniors and seniors in 1935-36: archaeology and the Bible, the history of the Hebrews in the Old Testament period, and the Bible as literature. People: A. C. Howell, Gustave Adolphus Harrer Place: University of North Carolina, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 30, 1935, p. 1
2. November 26, 1943 Classics department head Gustave Adolphus Harrer dies Gustave Adolphus Harrer, Kenan professor of Latin and head of the University's classics department, died at his home in Chapel Hill at 57 after more than a year of heart trouble. He had been president of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South and wrote on the Roman province of Syria. Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 3, 1943, p. 4