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Jul 01, 1847 Berlin Died on 11 Jul 1906 (aged 59)
classical philologist and historian (1847-1906)
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About Heinrich Gelzer
- Not to be confused with the German classical scholar Matthias Gelzer, who wrote on Julius Caesar and the Late Roman Republic.Heinrich Gelzer (1 July 1847, in Berlin – 11 July 1906, in Jena) was a German classical scholar.
- He wrote also on Armenian mythology.
- He was the son of the Swiss historian Johann Heinrich Gelzer (1813–1889).
- He became Professor of classical philology and ancient history at the University of Jena, in 1878.
- He wrote a still-standard work on Sextus Julius Africanus.
- He worked out the chronology of Gyges of Lydia, from cuneiform evidence, in an 1875 article.
