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Edgar Lobel

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Lobel never loved teaching: when his college (Queen's) forced him to held a class, he put his lesson on Saturday afternoon. Also, he apparently didn't like papyri per se—instead, he is reported to have said "the poets I like happen to have been transmitted in this way". He also met
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from 1941 to 1972; as such he supervised the editing and publishing of twenty-two volumes of the series, from. vol. XVIII to XXIX, which contain more than 700 papyri and gave significant contributions to classical philology and knowledge of Ancient Greek literature—most notably
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The virtue of these men and others of the same kind, displayed in the skies, at sea and on earth, saved their homeland. They risked their youth, and God fulfilled for some of them the fate of returning home and for the others of having this
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in 1906. Despite the fact that his father had been compelled by poverty to emigrate to the United States, Lobel took up his scholarship in 1907 and studied under several noted classicists, including the
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and several other University honours. After a year's work as a professor's assistant, he continued his studies at Oxford, where he made close acquaintances of
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Before papyri, Lobel’s elective field of research was Greek palaeography. In 1933, he published a book on the manuscripts of
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Weise, Stefan (2022). "Greek Inscription at The Queen's College, Oxford ". In Pontani, Filippomaria; Weise, Stefan (eds.).
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and his wife. But perhaps the most important friendship that he struck during this period was with the papyrologist
126: 203: 521:' works, Lobel, unlike Grenfell and Hunt, ignored non-literary papyri, which make up the majority of material. 935: 268: 211: 85: 1039: 1034: 579:(Amsterdam 1971). Lobel and Page’s edition, along with Voigt’s, set the standard text for Sappho and 243:, who introduced Lobel to the study of papyrology and induced him to travel to Berlin to study under 240: 563:(commonly referred in editions as Lobel-Page or L.-P.) is still one of the two standard editions of 948: 580: 568: 321: 284: 171: 163: 112: 154:
who is best known for his four decades overseeing the publication of the literary texts among the
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believed that Lobel should "be acknowledged as a scholar to be mentioned in the same breath as
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Detail of P.Oxy. X 1232, the papyrus which occasioned the first mention of Lobel in the
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with his parents Amelia and Arthur Lobel, a shipowner. He was educated at
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Some of these volumes were edited by other scholars (like vol. XXIX, by
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After the Second World War, he composed a funerary epigram in memory of
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Lobel is best known for having been the general editor of the
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in the text of the Lesbian poets which Lobel prepared with
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Lehnus, L. (2010), "Edgar Lobel", in Capasso, M. (ed.),
146:(24 December 1888 – 7 July 1982) was a Romanian-British 194:, Romania on 24 December 1888. As a youth he moved to 836:. Texte und Kommentare 68. Berlin-Boston: De Gruyter. 722:"The refuseniks and the honours they turned down", 598:' works and fragments (2 vols., Oxford 1949–1953). 122: 108: 91: 81: 71: 52: 30: 23: 781:Excavating in Egypt: The Egypt Exploration Society 227:In 1911 he graduated having taken first class in 336:: "Euripides, like Wilamowitz, knew no Greek!". 547:: The Fragments of the Lyrical Poems of Alcaeus 359: 345: 852:Hermae: Scholars and Scholarship in Papyrology 536:: The Fragments of the Lyrical Poems of Sappho 343:'s students fallen during the war. It reads: 182:, a towering genius of English scholarship." 8: 1065:People educated at Manchester Grammar School 783:. 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Neri, Camillo (ed.). 292:His edition of Sappho and Alcaeus, 655:Oxyrhynchus Papyri Project website 330:Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff 14: 1060:Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford 953:Greek Papyrology: An Introduction 854:, vol. II, Pisa & Rome, 921:"Lobel, Edgar (1888–1982)]" 890:, Savage, MD, pp. 213–14, 602:Select occasional publications 503:, vol. XXXVIII (London, 1971) 251:Academic career and later life 233:Gaisford Prize for Greek Verse 1: 955:(2nd rev. ed.), Oxford, 497:, vol. XXXVII (London, 1971) 473:, vol. XXXIII (London, 1968) 443:, vol. XXVIII (London, 1962) 231:, in addition to winning the 577:Sappho et Alcaeus. Fragmenta 561:Poetarum Lesbiorum fragmenta 554:Poetarum Lesbiorum fragmenta 509:, vol. XXXIX (London, 1972) 491:, vol. XXXVI (London, 1970) 479:, vol. XXXIV (London, 1968) 467:, vol. XXXII (London, 1967) 437:, vol. XXVII (London, 1962) 413:, vol. XXIII (London, 1956) 383:, vol. XVIII (London, 1941) 294:Poetarum Lesbiorum Fragmenta 645:then in force in Romania." 485:, vol. XXXV (London, 1968) 461:, vol. XXXI (London, 1966) 449:, vol. XXIX (London, 1963) 431:, vol. XXVI (London, 1961) 419:, vol. XXIV (London, 1957) 407:, vol. XXII (London, 1954) 202:School before moving on to 1086: 1055:English classical scholars 542: 531: 455:, vol. XXX (London, 1964) 425:, vol. XXV (London, 1959) 401:, vol. XXI (London, 1951) 389:, vol. XIX (London, 1948) 834:Testimonianze e Frammenti 395:, vol. XX (London, 1952) 210:and won a scholarship to 204:Manchester Grammar School 137: 101: 919:Lloyd-Jones, H. (2004), 803:The translation is from 779:James, T. G. H. (1983). 186:Early life and education 888:Greek in a Cold Climate 886:(1991), "Edgar Lobel", 212:Balliol College, Oxford 158:and for his edition of 127:Queen's College, Oxford 86:Balliol College, Oxford 936:"Obituary: Mary Lobel" 754:Lehnus, Luigi (2007). 507:The Oxyrhynchus Papyri 501:The Oxyrhynchus Papyri 495:The Oxyrhynchus Papyri 489:The Oxyrhynchus Papyri 483:The Oxyrhynchus Papyri 477:The Oxyrhynchus Papyri 471:The Oxyrhynchus Papyri 465:The Oxyrhynchus Papyri 459:The Oxyrhynchus Papyri 453:The Oxyrhynchus Papyri 447:The Oxyrhynchus Papyri 441:The Oxyrhynchus Papyri 435:The Oxyrhynchus Papyri 429:The Oxyrhynchus Papyri 423:The Oxyrhynchus Papyri 417:The Oxyrhynchus Papyri 411:The Oxyrhynchus Papyri 405:The Oxyrhynchus Papyri 399:The Oxyrhynchus Papyri 393:The Oxyrhynchus Papyri 387:The Oxyrhynchus Papyri 381:The Oxyrhynchus Papyri 364: 355: 276: 225:A.W. 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Index

Iași
Oxford
British
Balliol College, Oxford
Mary Lobel
Classical philology
papyrology
Queen's College, Oxford
Bodleian Library
classicist
papyrologist
Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Sappho
Alcaeus
Denys Page
Eric Gardner Turner
Porson
Bentley
Iași
Higher Broughton
Kersal
Manchester Grammar School
head boy
Balliol College, Oxford
Lucretius
Cyril Bailey
A.W. Pickard-Cambridge
Mods and Greats
Gaisford Prize for Greek Verse
Gilbert Murray

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