page_title: Edgar Lobel
section_title: Academic career and later life
hierarchical_section_title: Edgar Lobel / Academic career and later life
caption_attribution_description: English: Detail of P.Oxy. X 1232 fr. 1 col. ii = Sappho fr. 44 L-P
context_page_description: Edgar Lobel 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."
context_section_description: His edition of Sappho and Alcaeus, Poetarum Lesbiorum Fragmenta (co-edited with Denys Page), appeared in 1955, and in the same year Lobel declined to be knighted.
caption: Detail of P.Oxy. X 1232, the papyrus which occasioned the first mention of Lobel in the Oxyrhynchus Papyri: "We are indebted to Mr. E. Lobel for several good suggestions on the text of this papyrus." This text would later stand as Sappho fr. 44 in the text of the Lesbian poets which Lobel prepared with Denys Page.
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