Elias Avery Lowe
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Elias Avery Lowe original name Elias Avery Loew, was an American palaeographer
. His wife was the noted translator H. T. Lowe-Porter
.
Born to a Russian Jewish family (he is also The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson's Great Grandfather), he received his doctor title in 1908 in Munich under the supervision of Ludwig Traube
.
His main works are the Codices Latini Antiquiores.
Palaeography
Palaeography, also spelt paleography is the study of ancient writing. Included in the discipline is the practice of deciphering, reading, and dating historical manuscripts, and the cultural context of writing, including the methods with which writing and books were produced, and the history of...
. His wife was the noted translator H. T. Lowe-Porter
H. T. Lowe-Porter
Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter was an American translator, most celebrated for her translations of the works of Thomas Mann....
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Born to a Russian Jewish family (he is also The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson's Great Grandfather), he received his doctor title in 1908 in Munich under the supervision of Ludwig Traube
Ludwig Traube (palaeographer)
Ludwig Traube was a paleographer and held the first chair of Medieval Latin in Germany . He was a son of the physician Ludwig Traube ....
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His main works are the Codices Latini Antiquiores.
Works (selection)
- Die ältesten Kalendarien in Monte Cassino, München, Diss. phil. 1908
- The Beneventan Script. A History of the South Italian minuscule, Oxford 1914. 2nd ed. Rome 1980
- Palaeographical papers. 1907-1965, hrsg. von Ludwig Bieler, Oxford 1972