Ada Adler
Ada Sara Adler | |
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Born | |
Died | 28 December 1946 | (aged 68)
Nationality | Danish |
Occupation(s) | Librarian and classical scholar |
Ada Sara Adler (18 February 1878 – 28 December 1946) was a
She is best known for her critical edition of the Byzantine encyclopedia Suda (5 vols., 1928–38), which still provides the standard text.
Biography
Adler was born on 18 February 1878, the daughter of Bertel David Adler and Elise Johanne, née Fraenckel.
Adler's early education was at Miss Steenberg's School and then
In 1901, she married Danish philosopher Anton Thomsen, whom she had met at a dinner on 20 March 1897.[1] Thomsen preserved an account of this first meeting in his diary, recalling how struck he was by her.[2] They divorced in 1912.[4]
During World War II, she was evacuated to Sweden with other Danish Jews. She taught Greek in the Danish school in Lund.[4]
She is buried in Mosaisk Vestre Begravelsesplads near Copenhagen.
Scholarly career
She is best known for her critical, standard edition of the
In 1916, she published a catalog of
Her work is noted to have been completed in both Rome and Florence in 1913 through the spring of 1914, and later years (1919 and 1920) in Paris, Venice, Oxford, and Florence.[3]
Works
- 1914: Die Commentare des Asklepiades von Myrlea, Hermes 49.1: 39–46
- 1916: Catalogue supplémentaire des manuscrits grecs de la Bibliothèque Royale de Copenhague.
- 1917: D. G. Moldenhawer og hans haandskriftsamling. Copenhagen http://www.kb.dk/permalink/2006/manus/780/dan/
- 1920: Den græske litteraturs skæbne i oldtid og middelalder. Copenhagen.
- 1928–1938: Suidae Lexicon. Leipzig: B. G. Teubner. 5 vols.
- 1932: Die Homervita im Codex Vindobonensis Phil. 39, Hermes 67.3: 363–366
References
- ^ a b c Hilden, Adda (30 August 2011). "Ada Adler (1878–1946)". Dansk Kvindebiografisk Leksikon.
- ^ ISBN 978-3-319-01061-8.
- ^ a b c d e f g Roth, Catharine P. (2016). "Ada Sara Adler. 'The greatest woman philologist' of her time". In Wyles & Hall (ed.). Women classical scholars : unsealing the fountain from the Renaissance to Jacqueline de Romilly'. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- ^ a b c d e Roth, Catharine P. (2 November 2020). "Ada Sara Adler: The Greatest Woman Philologist Who Ever Lived". Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies. Archived from the original on 4 April 2016. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
- JSTOR 4351923.
- ^ Weinreich, Otto (1929). "Die Seher Bakis und Glanis, ein Witz des Aristophanes". Archiv für Religionswissenschaft. 27: 57–60.
- ^ Jensen, Niels (15 May 2021). "Danske Litteraturpriser".
External links
- Suda On Line. An on-line edition of the Ada Adler edition with ongoing translations and commentary by registered editors.
- 'Ada Adler' in the Dansk Kvindebiografisk leksikon. Elaborate biography.