Anton Elter (5 March 1858, Rosbach an der Sieg – 5 November 1925,

Bonn Bonn () is a federal city in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, located on the banks of the Rhine. With a population exceeding 300,000, it lies about south-southeast of Cologne, in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ruhr region. This ...

) was a German

classical philologist Classics, also classical studies or Ancient Greek and Roman studies, is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, ''classics'' traditionally refers to the study of Ancient Greek and Roman literature and their original languages, ...

. He studied

philology Philology () is the study of language in Oral tradition, oral and writing, written historical sources. It is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics with strong ties to etymology. Philology is also de ...

at the universities of

Münster Münster (; ) is an independent city#Germany, independent city (''Kreisfreie Stadt'') in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is in the northern part of the state and is considered to be the cultural centre of the Westphalia region. It is also a ...

and

, receiving his PhD in 1880 with a dissertation on the Greek anthologist

Stobaeus Joannes Stobaeus (; ; 5th-century AD), from Stobi in Macedonia (Roman province), Macedonia, was the compiler of a valuable series of extracts from Greek authors. The work was originally divided into two volumes containing two books each. The tw ...

. Following graduation, he spent several years in

Rome Rome (Italian language, Italian and , ) is the capital city and most populated (municipality) of Italy. It is also the administrative centre of the Lazio Regions of Italy, region and of the Metropolitan City of Rome. A special named with 2, ...

, where he worked as a private tutor to the son of Onorato Caetani of Sermoneta. In 1887 he became an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Czernowitz, then returning to Bonn as an associate professor of classical philology in 1890, where two years later, he gained a full professorship and was named director of philosophical seminars.

Selected published works

* ''De Joannis Stobaei Codice Photiano'', 1880 (dissertation thesis). * ''De gnomologiorum graecorum historia atque origine commentationis'', 1893–97. * ''Analecta Graeca'', 200000000 – Greek analects. * ''Gnomica homoeomata'', 1900–1904 – work involving

Gnomic poetry Gnomic poetry consists of meaningful sayings put into verse to aid the memory. They were known by the Greeks as gnomes (cf. the Greek adjective γνωμικός (''gnomikos'') "appertaining to an opinion or aphorism"). A ''gnome'' was defined by t ...

. * ''Donarem pateras'', 1905–1907. * ''Itinerarstudien'', 1908 – Itinerary studies. * ''Prolegomena zu Minucius Felix'', 1909 – Prolegomena to

Marcus Minucius Felix __NOTOC__ Marcus Minucius Felix (died c. 250 AD in Rome) was one of the earliest of the Latin apologists for Christianity. Nothing is known of his personal history, and even the date at which he wrote can be only approximately ascertained as betw ...

. * ''Cremera und Porta Carmentalis'', 1910 –

Battle of the Cremera The Battle of the Cremera was fought between the Roman Republic and the Etruscan city of Veii, in . It most likely occurred on 18 July, although Ovid gives a different date of 13 February. Background Since the overthrow of the Roman monarchy ...

and

Porta Carmentalis The Carmental Gate, also known by its Latin name as the Porta Carmentalis, was a double gate in the Servian Walls of ancient Rome. It was named for a nearby shrine to the goddess or nymph Carmenta, whose importance in early Roman religion is als ...

. * ''Ein Athenisches Gesetz über die Eleusinische Aparche'', 1914 – An Athenian law on the

Eleusinian Elefsina () or Eleusis ( ; ) is a suburban city and municipality in Athens metropolitan area. It belongs to West Attica regional unit of Greece. It is located in the Thriasio Plain, at the northernmost end of the Saronic Gulf. North of Elefsina ...

aparche. Elter also published several articles on various classical themes in the ''Rheinisches Museum für Philologie''.Wikisource
Bibliography of Anton Elter

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Elter, Anton 1858 births 1925 deaths People from Rhein-Sieg-Kreis People from the Rhine Province German classical philologists University of Bonn alumni Academic staff of the University of Bonn University of Münster alumni Academic staff of Chernivtsi University