Elimar Klebs

Elimar Klebs (* October 15, 1852 in Brown Mountain, † May 17, 1918 in Marburg ) was a German historian.

Life

The son of an East Prussian prosecutor and brother of the botanist Georg Albrecht Klebs studied with Theodor Mommsen and Heinrich von Treitschke in Berlin, where he received his doctorate in 1876 and his habilitation in 1883. He was at the Berlin Academy from 1886 one of the three editors (next to Hermann Dessau and Paul von Rohden ) of the first edition of the Prosopographia Imperii Romani. The use his first band (letters A to C) appeared 1897. Winter semester 1906 Klebs was the successor Benedict Nieses Associate Professor of Ancient History at the University of Marburg, the end of 1907 a full professor. Due to a serious illness he was on leave in 1913 and released in 1914 by his academic obligations.

Klebs scientifically dealt mainly with Roman historiography (including the Historia Augusta) and the ancient Roman ( Petronius, Historia Apollonii ). He also wrote articles for Pauly Realencyclopädie of classical archeology.

Writings

• De scriptoribus Aetatis Sullanae. Diss Berlin 1876.
• For Composition of Petronius ' Satirae. In: Philologus 47, 1889, pp. 623-635.
• The dynastic element in the history of the Roman Empire. In: Historical Journal 61 ( NF = 25), 1889, pp. 213-245.
• The collection of the Scriptores historiae Augustae, In: Rhenish Museum of Philology 45, 1890, pp. 436-464.
• The story of Apollonius of Tyre. A historical study of its Latin original form and its subsequent edits. Reimer, Berlin, 1899.