Rudolf Pfeiffer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Rudolf Pfeiffer

philologist

Date of Birth: 20-Sep-1889

Place of Birth: Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany

Date of Death: 05-May-1979

Profession: university teacher, classical scholar, linguist, classical philologist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Rudolf Carl Franz Otto Pfeiffer (September 20, 1889 – May 5, 1979) was a German classical philologist.
He is known today primarily for his landmark, two-volume edition of Callimachus and the two volumes of his History of Classical Scholarship, in addition to numerous articles and lectures related to these projects and to the fragmentary satyr plays of Aeschylus and Sophocles.