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American antiquarian and classical scholar (1874?1932)
Wilfred Harvey Schoff
(1874–1932) was an early twentieth-century American
antiquarian
and
classical
scholar.
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Career
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Schoff was responsible for translating a number of important ancient texts. Among these works was the 1st century CE Greco-Roman
Periplus of the Erythraean Sea
,
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as well as the Carthaginian
Periplus of Hanno
.
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Besides writing, Schoff also served as Secretary of the
Philadelphia Commercial Museum
.
Works
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- Schoff, Wilfred H., The Periplus of Hanno: A Voyage of Discovery Down the
West African
Coast, by a Carthaginian Admiral of the Fifth Century B.C. (Philadelphia:
Commercial Museum
, 1912).
- Schoff, Wilfred H., The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea: Travel and Trade in the
Indian Ocean
, by a Merchant of the First century (
New York City
et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1912)
- Schoff, Wilfred H., The descendants of Jacob Schoff who came to
Boston
in 1752 and settled in Ashburnham in 1757 : with an account of the German immigration into colonial New England (
Philadelphia
: [J. McGarrigle], 1910)
- Schoff, Wilfred H. The eastern iron trade of the
Roman empire
. ([New Haven], 1915)
- Schoff, Wilfred H., The ship "
Tyre
"; a symbol of the fate of conquerors as prophesied by
Isaiah
,
Ezekiel
and
John
and fulfilled at
Nineveh
,
Babylon
and
Rome
; a study in the commerce of the
Bible
, (
New York City
Longmans, Green and co., 1920)
- Schoff, Wilfred H., Periplus of the Outer Sea, east and west, and of the great islands therein, by
Marcian of Heraclea
,
Philadelphia
, 1927.
References
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- ^
Wilfred Harvey Schoff
at the
University of Pennsylvania
library website
- ^
Schoff, Wilfred H. (Wilfred Harvey), 1874-1932, ed.: The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea: Travel and Trade in the
Indian Ocean
, by a Merchant of the First Century (New York et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1912)
- ^
Schoff, W. H., The Periplus of Hanno: A Voyage of Discovery Down the West African Coast, by a Carthaginian Admiral of the Fifth century BC. (Philadelphia:
Commercial Museum
, 1912)
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