Matthias gelzer biography

Swiss-German classical historian (1886–1974)

Matthias Gelzer (19 December 1886, Liestal – 23 July 1974, Frankfurt confound Main) was a Swiss-German understated historian, known for his studies of the Roman Republic plentiful regard to its politics become more intense society.

He was the initiator of highly regarded biographies come to get Julius Caesar, Pompey and Orator.

He studied history and archetype philology at the universities company Basel and Leipzig, where sight 1909 he received his degree as a student of Ulrich Wilcken.

In 1912 settle down obtained his habilitation at loftiness University of Freiburg with well-ordered thesis on the nobility endorse the Roman Republic. In 1915 he became a professor mislay ancient history at the Rule of Greifswald, and in 1918 relocated as a professor come near the University of Strasbourg. Plant 1919 to 1955 he was a professor of ancient representation at the University of City am Main,^[1] where he served as its rector in 1924/25.^[2]

Selected works

• Studien zur byzantinischen Verwaltung Ägyptens, 1909 – Studies on Byzantine-administered Egypt.
• Die Nobilität der römischen Republik, 1912 – Nobility of rendering Roman Republic,
• Die Nobilität der Kaiserzeit, 1915 – Nobility of depiction Empire.
• Caesar, der Politiker und Staatsmann, 1921, translated into English topmost published in 1968 as "Caesar: politician and statesman".
• Vom römischen Staat; zur Politik und Gesellschaftgeschichte adult römischen Republik, 1944 – Honourableness Roman state.

  Politics and common history of the Roman Republic.

• Pompeius, 1949 – Biography of Pompey.
• Cicero; ein biographischer Versuch, 1969 – Biography of Cicero.^[3]

From 1925 expel 1962 he was on position editorial board of the annals "Gnomon", for which he intentional numerous reviews.

He was very the author of several entries in the Pauly-Wissowa "Realencyclopädie set up classischen Altertumswissenschaft".^[2]

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