Professor Julius William Adolphe Kuhne after a long and painful illness, which he bore with great cheerfulness and fortitude, died at Mercy Hospitol, Hamilton, Ohio, December, 27, 1927 at the age of 60.
Professor Kuhne was born at Cette, France in July 1867. He recieved the degree of Bachelor es Lettres from the University of Montpellier, France, in 1887. He later came to this country , and was instructor in Modern Languages in the Academy of Illinois from 1898 - 1902. He received the Masters Degree from the University of Chicago in 1904, having specialized in French. He was instructor in Romantic Languages at North Western University from 1905 - 1909. For the next 2 years he was a graduate student at Harvard University, where he held the Austin scholarship and specialized in Spanish. He received a degree of A.M from Harvard in 1910, and spent another year there working toward his doctor's degree. At Harvard his work was so highly esteemed that he was offered an assistant professorship in Romance Languages.
Professor Kuhne came to Miami University as assistant professor of Romantic Languages in 1911. He was associate professor from 1912 - 1922. He was professor of Romantic Languages since 1923, and since 1926 professor of Fine Arts as well. He edited one of George Sand's novels, and, in collaboration with Dr. daCruz, the Don Quixote of Cervantes. Professor Kuhne was the Author of a paper on the poet Francois Villon, and in collaboration with Dr. Hook of Miami published a collection of original stories in French.
Throughout his whole life Professor Kuhne cherished a love of art. He was himself a painter and sculptor of considerable ability. His children have given to Miami University several of his paintings and figures modelled in clay. In the last few years of his life Professor Kuhne had much to do with the establishment of the Fine Arts Department at Miami and was the first instructor in charge of the Fine Arts Laboratory. He ably represented Miami University at the meeting of teachers of art at the Art Instatute in Chicago, in the summer of 1925, and received and arranged the extensive collection of art material given to Miami by Carnegie Corporation.
Professor Kuhne made many very loyal friend among his students and colleagues. His genial and cultivated presence will be sorely missed among us.
