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Edwin Mayser

1859 – 1937

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Lived 1859 – 1937 (aged 78). Edwin Mayser was a classical philologist and secondary school teacher.

Franz Edwin Mayser (26 April 1859, Riedlingen – 5 May 1937, Degerloch) was German classical scholar and gymnasial teacher (in Heilbronn and Stuttgart).

He composed a grammar of Greek Ptolemaic papyri, which took about 40 years to be competed. After finishing the second volume (Syntax), he set on a new edition of the first one. He had time to complete two parts (Morphology and Word formation), but the very first part (Introduction and Phonology) remained unfinished. Hans Widmann had taken the task to complete the edition, but he was unable to do it. Eventually the volume I/1 was published by Hans Schmoll (1970).

Mayser was buried on 7 May 1937 in Tübingen.

Publications Grammatik der griechischen Papyri aus der Ptolemäerzeit mit Einschluss der gleichzeitigen Ostraka und der in Ägypten verfassten Inschriften. Band I: Laut- und Wortlehre. Teubner, 1906 (Neue Ausgabe De Gruyter, 1923). I. Teil: Einleitung und Lautlehre. 2. Aufl. bearbeitet von Hans Schmoll: De Gruyter, 1970. II. Teil: Flexionslehre. 2. Aufl. De Gruyter, 1938. III. Teil: Stammbildung. 2. Aufl. De Gruyter, 1936. Band II.1: Satzlehre. Analytischer Teil. Erste Hälfte. De Gruyter, 1926. Band II.2: Satzlehre. Analytischer Teil. Zweite Hälfte. De Gruyter, 1934. Band II.3: Satzlehre. Synthetischer Teil. De Gruyter, 1934.

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classical philologist

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Edwin Mayser was born on 26 April 1859 in Riedlingen.

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Edwin Mayser died on 5 May 1937 in Degerloch, Stuttgart.

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Edwin Mayser was a classical philologist and secondary school teacher.

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