HILL, DAVID JAYNE (1850-1932), American diplomat, was born at Plainfield, N.J., on June io, 185o. After graduating in 1874 from the University of Lewisburg, Pa.—later known as Bucknell university—he became instructor in Greek and Latin there and from 1877 professor of rhetoric. In 1879 he was elected president of Bucknell, and in 1888 of the University of Rochester. In 1896 he resigned and went abroad to study public law. In 1898 he was appointed assistant secretary of State by President McKinley. While in Washington he was also professor of Euro pean diplomacy in the school of comparative jurisprudence and diplomacy. In 1903 he was appointed minister to Switzerland, and in 1905 was transferred to Holland. He was a delegate to the Second Peace Conference at The Hague in 1907. From 1908-11 he was ambassador to Germany.
Hill's best-known work is his History of Diplomacy in the Inter national Development of Europe, embracing The Struggle for Univer sal Empire (1905) , The Establishment of Territorial Sovereignty (1906) and The Diplomacy of the Age of Absolutism (1914). His other writings include World Organization as Affected by the Nature of the Modern State (1911, lectures delivered at Columbia university) ; Impressions of the Kaiser (1918) ; Present Problems in Foreign (1919) ; American World Policies (192o) ; and The Problem of a World Court (1927) .