Elias Avery Lowe

Elias Avery Lowe ( Kalvarija, Russian imperial 15 October 1879 – 8 August 1969) was an American palaeographer. His wife, whom he married in 1911, was the noted translator H. T. Lowe-Porter.

Among the Lowes' grandchildren was British artist Charlotte Johnson Wahl, and among Wahl's children is journalist and politician Boris Johnson, Mayor of London.^[1]

Career

Lowe graduated from Cornell University in 1902 and received his doctorate in 1908 at the University of Munich under the supervision of Ludwig Traube.

His main works are the Codices Latini Antiquiores.

Works (selection)

• Die ältesten Kalendarien in Monte Cassino, München, Diss. phil. 1908.
• The Beneventan Script. A History of the South Italian minuscule, Oxford 1914. archive.org 2nd ed. Rome 1980.
• Handwriting. Our Medieval Legacy, Rome, 1969.
• Palaeographical papers. 1907-1965, ed. Ludwig Bieler, Oxford 1972.

Bibliography

• Bernhard Bischoff, "Elias Avery Lowe, 15.10.1879 - 8.8.1969," Jahrbuch der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 1970, pp. 203 ff.
• James J. John, "A Palaeographer among Benedictines: A Tribute to E.A. Lowe," American Benedictine Review 21 (1970), 1-17.
• Patricia Tracy Lowe, A marriage of true minds. A memoir of my parents, Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter and Elias Avery Lowe, New Paltz, NY 2006, ISBN 0-9642350-4-8.

References

1. Interview: Boris Johnson - my Jewish credentials, The Jewish Chronicle, By Daniella Peled, April 2008

External links

• Works by Elias Avery Lowe at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Elias Avery Lowe at Internet Archive