Rudolf Pfeiffer

Rudolf Pfeiffer
Born	(1889-09-20)20 September 1889 Augsburg, German Empire
Died	5 May 1979(1979-05-05) (aged 89) Dachau, West Germany
Nationality	German
Alma mater	Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Scientific career
Fields	Classical philology, papyrology
Institutions	Berlin, Hamburg, Freiburg, Munich, Oxford
Doctoral advisor	Franz Muncker
Other academic advisors	Otto Crusius and Hermann Paul
Doctoral students	Winfried Bühler

Rudolf Carl Franz Otto Pfeiffer (20 September 1889 – 5 May 1979)^[1] was a German classical philologist. He is known today primarily for his landmark, two-volume edition of Callimachus and the two volumes of his History of Classical Scholarship, in addition to numerous articles and lectures related to these projects and to the fragmentary satyr plays of Aeschylus and Sophocles.