Badian, Ernst (1925–2011), historian of ancient Greece and Rome, was born on 8 August 1925 in Vienna, the only child of Josef (Joseph) Badian (1893–1965), bank clerk, and his wife, Salka (Sally), née Horinger (1894–1965). Jewish by descent, he experienced the organized anti-Jewish mob violence of ...
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Maas, Paul Lazarus (1880–1964), classical scholar and Byzantinist, was born at 49 Niedenau Strasse, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, on 18 November 1880, the eldest of the five children of Dr Maximilian Maas (1852–1923), banker and private scholar, and Henriette, née Oppenheimer-Prins (1856–1940). After school education in ...
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Paton, William Roger (1857–1921), epigraphist and classical scholar
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Paton, William Roger (1857–1921), epigraphist and classical scholar, was born on 9 February 1857 at 10 Chanonry, Old Aberdeen, the only son, and fourth of five children, of John Paton (1818–1879), a major, and later a colonel, in the Aberdeenshire militia and deputy lieutenant of ...
