Edgar Lobel | |
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| Born | 24 December 1888 Iași, Romania |
| Died | 7 July 1982 (aged 93) Oxford, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Balliol College, Oxford |
| Spouse | Mary Lobel |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Classical philology, papyrology |
| Institutions | Queen's College, Oxford, Bodleian Library |
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."[1]