The Ideal of Citizenship: Being the Speech of Pericles Over Those Fallen in the War, Translated from the Greek of Thucydides by A.E. Zimmern

Alfred Eckhard Zimmern (1879-1957), classical scholar and political scientist. Zimmern was educated at Winchester College and at New College, Oxford. After further study in Berlin and travel in Italy, he returned to Oxford as lecturer, fellow, and tutor in ancient history. During and after the First World War Zimmern turned increasingly to international politics. He worked in the British Ministry of Reconstruction and the Foreign Office, and in 1920 was a founding figure of the Institute of International Affairs. He strongly supported the creation of the League of Nations. In 1919 he became the first professor of international relations in the world, at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. Later he was appointed Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at Oxford (1930). After the Second World War he played an important role in the creation of UNESCO, serving as secretary-general of its founding conference in 1945. ODNB