Gustav Billeter

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Gustav Billeter (19 December 1873 – 24 or 25 June 1929) was a Swiss classical philologist.

Biography

Gustav Billeter was born in Zürich. From 1892 to 1897, he studied at the University of Zurich, where he graduated with the thesis Geschichte des Zinsfusses im griechisch-römischen Altertum bis auf Justinian. I. Teil: Der Zinsfuss in Griechenland und Kleinasien bis um 250 n. Chr.. He habilitated there in 1899 and was a private lecturer in history at the University of Zurich until 1912. From 1902 to 1928, he was a high school teacher of Latin and Greek at the Gymnasium in Zurich, where Elias Canetti was also one of his students. In January 1910, he discovered Goethe's fragmentary original form of Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship in Zurich in the estate of Barbara Schulthess; the draft begun in 1777 with the title Wilhelm Meisters theatralische Sendung.

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