Heinrich Gelzer (1 July 1847, in
Berlin
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– 11 July 1906, in
Jena
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) was a German classical scholar. He wrote also on
Armenian mythology. He was the son of the Swiss historian
Johann Heinrich Gelzer
Johann Heinrich Gelzer (17 October 1813 – 15 August 1889) was a Swiss historian and diplomat who was a native of Schaffhausen. He was the father of philologist Heinrich Gelzer (1847–1906).
He studied history and theology at the Universities ...
(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
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, from
cuneiform
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evidence, in an 1875 article.
Walter Burkert (PDF), p. 3
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Works
*''Sextus Julius Africanus und die byzantinische Chronographie'' (three volumes) – Sextus Julius Africanus and the Byzantine chronology.
*'' Georgii Cyprii Descriptio orbis romani'' (1890).
*''Index lectionum Ienae'' (1892).
*''Leontios' von Neapolis Leben des heiligen Johannes des Barmherzigen, Erzbischofs von Alexandrien'' (1893) – Leontios of Neapolis' life of John the Merciful, Archbishop of Alexandria.
*''Geistliches und Weltliches aus dem türkisch-griechischen Orient'' (1900) – The spiritual and worldly of the Turkish-Greek Orient.
*''Ungedruckte und ungenügend veröffentlichte Texte der Nottiae episcopatuum. Ein Beitrag zur byzantinischen Kirchen- und Verwaltungsgeschichte'' (1901) – Unpublished and incomplete texts of the Notitiae Episcopatuum, a contribution to the Byzantine church and administrative history.
*''Vom heiligen Berge und aus Makedonien. Reisebilder aus den Athosklöstern und dem Insurrektionsgebiet'' (1904) – From the Sacred mountains and from Macedonia
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* North Macedonia, a country in southeastern Europe, known until 2019 as the Republic of Macedonia
* Macedonia (ancient kingdom), a kingdom in Greek antiquity
* Macedonia (Greece), a traditional geographic reg ...
; Travel pictures from the Athos monasteries, etc.
*''Scriptores sacri et profani ...'' Bd. 4. ''Des Stephanos von Taron armenische Geschichte'' (1907), translation with August Burckhardt.
*''Byzantinische Kulturgeschichte'' (1909) – Byzantine cultural history.
*''Patrum nicaenorum nomina'', with Heinrich Hilgenfeld and Otto Cuntz.
*''Ausgewählte kleine Schriften'' – Selected smaller writings.
*''Der altfranzösische Yderroman'' (1913), as editor – Old French
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Yder romance.
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1847 births
1906 deaths
Writers from Berlin
People from the Province of Brandenburg
German classical philologists
National-Social Association politicians
University of Basel alumni
University of Göttingen alumni
Heidelberg University faculty
University of Jena faculty