Rudolf Pfeiffer

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1889 – 1979

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Who was Rudolf Pfeiffer?

Rudolf Carl Franz Otto Pfeiffer was a German classical philologist. He is known today primarily for his landmark, two-volume edition of Callimachus and the two volumes of his History of Classical Scholarship, in addition to numerous articles and lectures related to these projects and to the fragmentary satyr plays of Aeschylus and Sophocles.

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Born
Sep 20, 1889
Augsburg
Nationality
  • Germany
Education
  • Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Died
May 5, 1979
Dachau

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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