Heinrich Gelzer

Heinrich Gelzer (1847-1906) was a German classical scholar. He wrote also on Armenian mythology. [http://rbedrosian.com/ananint.htm]

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 Julius Africanus. [M. Walraff, in Frances Margaret Young, M. J. Edwards, Paul M. Parvis (editors), "Papers presented at the fourteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 2003" (2006), p. 310.] He worked out the chronology of Gyges, from cuneiform evidence, in an 1875 article. [ [http://www.aakkl.helsinki.fi/melammu/pdf/burkert2004.pdf Walter Burkert (PDF), p. 3] ]

Works

*"Sextus Julius Africanus und die byzantinische Chronographie" (three volumes)
*"Georgii Cyprii Descriptio orbis romani" (1890)
*"Index lectionum Ienae" (1892)
*"Leontios' von Neapolis Leben des heiligen Johannes des Barmherzigen, Erzbischofs von Alexandrien" (1893)
*"Geistliches und Weltliches aus dem türkisch-griechischen Orient" (1900)
*"Ungedrueckte und ungenugend veroffentlichte Texte der Nottiae episcopatuum" (1901)
*"Vom heiligen Berge und aus Makedonien. Reisebilder aus den Athosklöstern und dem Insurrektionsgebiet" (1904}
*"Scriptores sacri et profani ..." Bd. 4. "Des Stephanos von Taron armenische Geschichte" (1907) translation with Aug. Burckhardt
*"Byzantinische Kulturgeschichte" (1909)
*"Patrum nicaenorum nomina", with Heinrich Hilgenfeld and Otto Cuntz
*"Ausgewahlte kleine Schriften"
*"Der altfranzösische Yderroman" (1913) editor

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External links

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