extraordinary professor

noun

In Germany, professor without chair, often in a side-area, or being subordinated to a professor with chair.

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Meanings

nounextraordinary professor (plural extraordinary professors)

plural extraordinary professors

  1. In Germany, professor without chair, often in a side-area, or being subordinated to a professor with chair.

    He then taught Oriental languages at the Academy of Münster, and in 1871 was appointed extraordinary professor.

    1913, “Gustav Bickell”, in Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)
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