Elimar Klebs was a German

Germany

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 historian

Historian

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 of ancient history

Ancient history

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. He was the brother of Georg Klebs

Georg Klebs

Georg Albrecht Klebs was a German botanist from Neidenburg , Prussia. His brother was the historian Elimar Klebs.-Life:...

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Klebs was born in Braunsberg (Braniewo)

Braniewo

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, Prussia

Province of Prussia

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. He studied in Berlin

Humboldt University of Berlin

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 under Theodor Mommsen

Theodor Mommsen

Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen was a German classical scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, politician, archaeologist, and writer generally regarded as the greatest classicist of the 19th century. His work regarding Roman history is still of fundamental importance for contemporary research...

 and Heinrich von Treitschke

Heinrich von Treitschke

Heinrich Gotthard von Treitschke was a nationalist German historian and political writer during the time of the German Empire.-Early life and teaching career:...

, receiving his doctorate in 1876 and his habilitation

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 in 1883. He also worked as a Privatdozent

Privatdozent

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 in Berlin. Along with Hermann Dessau

Hermann Dessau

Hermann Dessau was a German ancient historian and epigrapher. He is noted for a key work of textual criticism published in 1889 on the Historia Augusta, which uncovered reasons to believe that this surviving text of ancient Roman imperial history had been written under circumstances very...

 and Paul von Rohden, he was involved in producing the first edition of the Prussian Academy of Sciences

Prussian Academy of Sciences

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' Prosopographia Imperii Romani. Klebs prepared the first volume, letters A-C, which appeared in 1897. From the winter semester of 1906, he was a professor for Ancient History at the University of Marburg. Because of a serious illness, he was put on leave in 1913 and discharged from his academic duties the following year. He died in Marburg.

Klebs focused on Ancient Roman

Ancient Rome

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 history, including the Historia Augusta, the Historia Apollonii, and Petronius

Petronius

Gaius Petronius Arbiter was a Roman courtier during the reign of Nero. He is generally believed to be the author of the Satyricon, a satirical novel believed to have been written during the Neronian age.-Life:...

. He also contributed to the Realencyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft.