Anton Elter (5 March 1858, Rosbach an der Sieg – 5 November 1925,

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) was a German classical philologist. He studied

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at the universities of

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and

, receiving his PhD in 1880 with a dissertation on the Greek anthologist Stobaeus. Following graduation, he spent several years in

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, where he worked as a private tutor to the son of Onorato Caetani of Sermoneta. In 1887 he became an associate professor of philosophy at the

University of Czernowitz Chernivtsi National University (full name Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, uk, Чернівецький національний університет імені Юрія Федьковича) is a public university in the City o ...

, then returning to Bonn as an associate professor of classical philology in 1890, where two years later, he gained a full professorship and was named director of philosophical seminars.

Selected published works

* ''De Joannis Stobaei Codice Photiano'', 1880 (dissertation thesis). * ''De gnomologiorum graecorum historia atque origine commentationis'', 1893–97. * ''Analecta Graeca'', 200000000 – Greek analects. * ''Gnomica homoeomata'', 1900–1904 – work involving Gnomic poetry. * ''Donarem pateras'', 1905–1907. * ''Itinerarstudien'', 1908 – Itinerary studies. * ''Prolegomena zu Minucius Felix'', 1909 – Prolegomena to

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. * ''Cremera und Porta Carmentalis'', 1910 –

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and

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. * ''Ein Athenisches Gesetz über die Eleusinische Aparche'', 1914 – An Athenian law on the

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aparche. Elter also published several articles on various classical themes in the ''Rheinisches Museum für Philologie''.Wikisource
Bibliography of Anton Elter

References

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