The Biographical Dictionary of America/Adler, George J.

ADLER, George J., philologist, was born in Germany in 1821. In 1833 he came to America with his parents, who settled in New York city, where the boy attended the public schools and entered the university of the city of New York, from which he was graduated with honors at the age of twenty-three. Two years later he was made professor of German in that institution, which position he filled for eight years. He prepared a German-English dictionary, which was published in 1848, and a German grammar and other German text-books which followed, and which are acknowledged to be the best books yet published in America. He published in 1868 "Poetry of the Arabs in Spain," which he had delivered as a popular lecture; and the same year, "Wilhelm von Humboldt's Linguistic Studies," and a translation of Fauriel's "History of Provençal Poetry." His mind became impaired during the last years of his life, and he died at Bloomingdale asylum, New York city, Aug. 24, 1868.