Thomas Gelzer

Carl Thomas Gelzer (born June 29, 1926 in Basel ; † March 19, 2010 ) was a Swiss classical philologist .

He studied classical philology, linguistics , archeology and German at the University of Basel and received his doctorate in 1953. During his student days he joined the Swiss Zofingerverein . 1964 followed his habilitation at the University of Zurich , where he became assistant professor in 1966. From 1966 to 1967 he was a fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies at Harvard University . In 1970 he accepted an appointment at the University of Bern as a full professor of classical philology with a special focus on Greek. In 1991 he retired.

Gelzer was a member of the editorial team of Museum Helveticum magazine . His estate is in the Basel University Library .

Grave in the Wolfgottesacker cemetery , Basel

Gelzer's areas of research were Aristophanes , Neoplatonism and its reception, classicism and the reception of antiquity in Goethe's Faust II .

literature

Margarethe Billerbeck : In memory of Prof. Dr. Dr. hc Thomas Gelzer (June 29, 1926 - March 19, 2010) . In: Museum Helveticum . Volume 67 (2010), pp. 193ff.

↑ Schweizerischer Zofingerverein, Schweizerischer Altzofingerverein (Ed.): List of Members 1997. Zofingen 1997, p. 31. (Available in the Swiss National Library , call number SWR 1338.)

personal data
SURNAME	Gelzer, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Gelzer, Carl Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH	June 29, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH	Basel
DATE OF DEATH	March 19, 2010