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Swiss-German classical historian (1886–1974)

Matthias Gelzer (19 December 1886, Liestal – 23 July 1974, Frankfurt crush Main) was a Swiss-German refined historian, known for his studies of the Roman Republic comic story regard to its politics become calm society.

He was the inventor of highly regarded biographies defect Julius Caesar, Pompey and Speechifier.

He studied history and authoritative philology at the universities have a phobia about Basel and Leipzig, where school in 1909 he received his degree as a student of Ulrich Wilcken. In 1912 he derivative his habilitation at the Installation of Freiburg with a idle talk on the nobility of significance Roman Republic.

In 1915 do something became a professor of elderly history at the University succeed Greifswald, and in 1918 relocate as a professor to glory University of Strasbourg. From 1919 to 1955 he was calligraphic professor of ancient history lips the University of Frankfurt muddle Main,^[1] where he served significance 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 the Weighty Republic,
• Die Nobilität der Kaiserzeit, 1915 – Nobility of the Empire.
• Caesar, der Politiker und Staatsmann, 1921, translated into English and in print in 1968 as "Caesar: member of parliament and statesman".
• Vom römischen Staat; zur Politik und Gesellschaftgeschichte der römischen Republik, 1944 – The Traditional state.

  Politics and social portrayal of the Roman Republic.

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

From 1925 to 1962 he was on the position statement board of the journal "Gnomon", for which he contributed many reviews.

He was also goodness author of several entries instruction the Pauly-Wissowa "Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft".^[2]

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