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Heinrich Gelzer

1847 - 1906

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Heinrich Gelzer (1 July 1847 – 11 July 1906) was a German classical scholar. He wrote also on Armenian mythology. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Heinrich Gelzer is the 382nd most popular historian (down from 327th in 2019), the 4,404th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,881st in 2019) and the 49th most popular German Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Heinrich Gelzer ranks 382 out of 561Before him are Géza Alföldy, Gottfried Arnold, Léon Gautier, Heinrich von Sybel, Michele Amari, and Peter Gay. After him are Ernest Labrousse, Fritz Stern, Cadmus of Miletus, Domenico Losurdo, Jan T. Gross, and Ronald Syme.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1847, Heinrich Gelzer ranks 82Before him are Hermann Osthoff, William Edward Ayrton, Marcel Alexandre Bertrand, Dimitar Grekov, Lipót Schulhof, and Louis Henri Boussenard. After him are Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson, Giacomo Bresadola, Carlo Alberto Castigliano, Eliška Krásnohorská, Wilhelm Killing, and Otto Blehr. Among people deceased in 1906, Heinrich Gelzer ranks 64Before him are Johann Dzierzon, Slava Raškaj, Manuel Quintana, Spencer Gore, Ernst Josephson, and Manuel García. After him are Julius Wilbrand, Alexander Veselovsky, Ernst Schultz, Ivan Babushkin, Ferdinand von Saar, and Aniceto Arce.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Heinrich Gelzer ranks 4,406 out of 7,253Before him are Peter Gay (1923), Uschi Glas (1944), Karl Moritz Schumann (1851), Philip, Duke of Palatinate-Neuburg (1503), Fritz Noether (1884), and Hans-Emil Schuster (1934). After him are Hans Günter Winkler (1926), Camilla Horn (1903), Ernst Hartwig (1851), Theo Lingen (1903), Lian Ross (1962), and Arthur Jonath (1909).

Among HISTORIANS In Germany

Among historians born in Germany, Heinrich Gelzer ranks 49Before him are Kurt Aland (1915), Franz Babinger (1891), Heinrich Zimmer (1890), Gottfried Arnold (1665), Heinrich von Sybel (1817), and Peter Gay (1923). After him are Friedrich Kittler (1943), Eberhard Jäckel (1929), Joseph Hergenröther (1824), Gerhard Ritter (1888), Heinrich Ewald (1803), and Nikolaus Pevsner (1902).