# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/heinrich-gelzer
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:36:45.715Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/heinrich-gelzer"
name: "Heinrich Gelzer"
slug: "heinrich-gelzer"
description: "Heinrich Gelzer was a German classical scholar. He wrote also on Armenian mythology. He was the son of the Swiss historian Johann Heinrich Gelzer (1813–1889). He became Professor of classical philology and ancient history at the University of Jena, in 1878. He wrote a still-standard work on Sextus Julius Africanus. He worked out the chronology of Gyges of Lydia, from cuneiform evidence, in an 1875 article."
tagline: "Classical philologist and historian (1847-1906)"
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country:
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birthDate: "1847-07-01"
deathDate: "1906-07-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump