TheGiger Professorship of Latin is anendowed chair for the teaching ofLatin atPrinceton University.[1]
Established by the gift of George Musgrave Giger, who served as Professor of Greek and Latin at Princeton from 1847–1865, the chair has been held by a senior Latinist at Princeton intermittently since 1883, when University presidentJames McCosh invitedAndrew Fleming West to fill the newly founded position.[2]