Heinrich Gelzer

Not to be confused with the German classical scholar Matthias Gelzer, who wrote on Julius Caesar and the Late Roman Republic.

Heinrich Gelzer (1 July 1847, in Berlin – 11 July 1906, in Jena) was a German classical scholar. He wrote also on Armenian mythology.^[1] He was the son of the Swiss historian Johann Heinrich Gelzer (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.^[2] He worked out the chronology of Gyges of Lydia, from cuneiform evidence, in an 1875 article.^[3]

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 Ein Beitrag zur byzantinischen Kirchen- und Verwaltungsgeschichte (1901) – Unpublished and incomplete texts of the Notitiae Episcopatuum, a contribution to the Byzantine church and administrative history.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; 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 Yder romance.

Notes

1. ↑ "Armenian Mythology" by Mardiros H. Ananikian
2. ↑ M. Walraff, in Frances Margaret Young, M. J. Edwards, Paul M. Parvis (editors), Papers presented at the fourteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 2003 (2006), p. 310.
3. ↑ Walter Burkert (PDF), p. 3

External links

• Alexander Zäh (2005). "Gelzer, Heinrich". In Bautz, Traugott. Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German). 24. Nordhausen: Bautz. cols. 681–685. ISBN 3-88309-247-9.