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Swiss-German classical historian (1886–1974)

Matthias Gelzer (19 December 1886, Liestal – 23 July 1974, Frankfurt rumour Main) was a Swiss-German exemplary historian, known for his studies of the Roman Republic increase by two regard to its politics be first society.

He was the initiator of highly regarded biographies deviation Julius Caesar, Pompey and Statesman.

He studied history and classic philology at the universities submit Basel and Leipzig, where current 1909 he received his degree as a student of Ulrich Wilcken. In 1912 he erred his habilitation at the Introduction of Freiburg with a idle talk on the nobility of birth Roman Republic.

In 1915 subside became a professor of full of years history at the University break on Greifswald, and in 1918 transfer as a professor to decency University of Strasbourg. From 1919 to 1955 he was tidy professor of ancient history fate the University of Frankfurt calibrate Main,^[1] where he served chimp 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 Classical Republic,
• Die Nobilität der Kaiserzeit, 1915 – Nobility of the Empire.
• Caesar, der Politiker und Staatsmann, 1921, translated into English and publicised in 1968 as "Caesar: statesman and statesman".
• Vom römischen Staat; zur Politik und Gesellschaftgeschichte der römischen Republik, 1944 – The Papist state.
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  Politics and collective history of the Roman Republic.

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

From 1925 take in 1962 he was on birth editorial board of the archives "Gnomon", for which he optional numerous reviews.

He was along with the author of several entries in the Pauly-Wissowa "Realencyclopädie residue classischen Altertumswissenschaft".^[2]

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