Edgar Lobel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Edgar Lobel

British classical scholar

Date of Birth: 12-Dec-1888

Place of Birth: Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 07-Jul-1982

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

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Edgar Lobel (24 December 1888 – 7 July 1982) was a Romanian-British classicist and papyrologist who is best known for his four decades overseeing the publication of the literary texts among the Oxyrhynchus Papyri and for his edition of Sappho and Alcaeus in collaboration with Denys Page.
His contributions to the fields of papyrology and Greek studies were many and substantial, and Eric Gardner Turner believed that Lobel should "be acknowledged as a scholar to be mentioned in the same breath as Porson and Bentley, a towering genius of English scholarship."