History of classical scholarship : a biographical dictionary

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History of classical scholarship : a biographical dictionary

edited by Peter Kuhlmann and Helmuth Schneider ; translated and edited by Duncan Smart and Chad M. Schroeder

(Brill's new Pauly, Supplements ; 6)

Brill, 2014

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Geschichte der Altertumswissenschaften : biographisches Lexikon

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"Original German language edition: Peter Kuhlmann und Helmuth Schneider (Hrsg.): Geschichte der Altertumswissenschaften. Biographisches Lexikon (=Der Neue Pauly Supplemente 6) published by J.B. Metzler'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung und Carl Ernst Poeschel Verlag GmbH Stuttgart, Germany. Copyright c2012"--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references and index

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This compendium gives a comprehensive overview of the history of classical studies. Alphabetically arranged, it provides biographies of over 700 scholars from the fourteenth century onwards who have made their mark on the study of Antiquity. These include the lives, careers and works of classical philologists, archaeologists, ancient historians, students of epigraphy, numismatics, papyrology, Egyptology and the Ancient Near East, philosophers, anthropologists, social scientists, art historians, collectors and writers. The biographies put the scholars in their social, political and cultural contexts while focusing on their scholarly achievements and their contributions to modern classical scholarship

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